Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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John S. Prince, the champion professional bicycle rider of Boston, and Lewis T. Frye of Marlboro have signed articles of agreement to ride a ten-mile bicycle race for a silver cup valued at $100, Prince to allow Frye 20 seconds start, the race to take place at the Institute fair building Nov. 30, at 9 P. M., and to be run under the Wolverhampton rules of racing...
...despatch says that John L. Sullivan has signified his intention of accepting Tom Allen's challenge to fight for $2500 a side. The agreement will be signed on the 20th...
John McMahon and John C. Daly, the wrestlers, have signed articles of agreement to wrestle either in New York, Boston or Philadelphia, four weeks from date, for $250 a side...
...exhibition games Chicago has won, having five games to Providence four. This result places Providence second without a doubt, for according to her own agreement these games would decide the championship if the technicality about the Chicago-Buffalo games was decided in her favor, otherwise they would be merely exhibition games...
Yale, however, refuses to enter upon the agreement; prompted not, we hope, although it looks very much that way, by jealousy of Harvard as the originator of the movement, but rather by good and sufficient reasons known to herself alone. Of course no particular results will come from this disagreement between Harvard and Yale except that Harvard will get what practice she can in base-ball from neighboring amateur nines, like the Beacons and Hyde Parks, and Yale will continue to struggle after invincibility through practice with professionals; the contests between the two colleges will continue as before...