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Definition of Sporting chance
1. Noun. A reasonable probability of success.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sporting Chance
Literary usage of Sporting chance
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Through Glacier Park: Seeing America First with Howard Eaton by Mary Roberts Rinehart (1916)
"... Ill THE sporting chance THE trail began to rise to the tree-covered "bench."
It twisted as it rose. Those above called cheerfully to those below. ..."
2. The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women (1914)
"And perhaps he may win through ; there is the chance—" the sporting chance."
These things can be done, and are done—a victory snatched by- daring whilst men ..."
3. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1918)
"It was a sporting chance, and a good one at that, so far as we could judge.
You don't get a good sporting chance every day of your life. Poor old Jim, here, ..."
4. Greatest Short Stories (1915)
"With his rival a nonstarter, Sunfire would represent no end of a good sporting
chance. In that event my tip would be to back the chestnut three-year-old. ..."
5. Let Us Go Afield by Emerson Hough (1916)
"I would not give a snap to take game fish in any way but on a good rod, giving
them a sporting chance and myself sporting experience as well. ..."
6. The Technical World Magazine (1910)
"The cashier wasn'ta diamond expert but he was willing to take a sporting chance
on Huddleston's find and offered fifty cents for the three stones. ..."
7. America's Duty as Shown by Our Military History: Its Facts and Fallacies by Leonard Wood (1921)
"These brave troops were not given a sporting chance, nor will our troops ever be
given a sporting chance unless we look a bit ahead and unless we shape our ..."
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