Word: amateur
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...entrance-fee (not returnable) of ONE DOLLAR per man, for each and every game, must accompany all entries. The right to reject any entry is reserved. No one will be allowed to compete unless properly attired. Competitors will please send their colors with their entry. An AMATEUR is any person who has never competed in an open competition, or for a stake, or for public money, or for admission money, or with professionals for a prize, public money, or admission money; nor has ever, at any period of his life, taught or assisted in the pursuit of athletic exercises...
...time made by R. Bacon in the quarter-mile run equals the best amateur time made in America; and when it is taken into consideration that the track was heavy and the wind was blowing in the face of the contestants, the records are very satisfactory and encouraging...
Henley. - The Regatta Committee announce in a late circular that they "wish it understood that this regatta is open only to amateurs," and that they "reserve the right to refuse any entry." That is, without defining an amateur, they announce that they will only receive amateur entries, and then leave it to their stewards to decide what an amateur really is. It would seem that some body of men might take the matter in hand, and give a decisive answer to this very puzzling conundrum. When an American committee announce that "this regatta is open only to amateurs," we always...
That Definition. - At a meeting of representatives of Oxford and Cambridge, and the principal boat-clubs in London, held on April 10, the following definition was adopted: "An amateur oarsman or sculler must be an officer of her Majesty's army or navy, or civil service; a member of the liberal professions; or of the universities or public schools; or of any established boat or rowing club not containing mechanics or professionals, and must not have competed in any competition for either stake, or money, or entrance fee, or with or against a professional for any prize, or have ever...
ATHLETICS.English Amateur Championships, London, April 15. - 4-mile bicycle race, R. R. MacKinnon, 14 min. 9 2/5 sec.; mile-run, A. F. Hills, Oxford, 4 min. 28 4/5 sec.; half-mile run, H. Whateley, Oxford, and L. Knowles, Cambridge, dead heat in 2 min. 3 3/5 sec.; 100-yards, L. Junker, L. A. C., 10 1/5 sec.; quarter-mile, J. Shearman, L. A. C., 52 4/5 sec.; 120-yards hurdles, S. Palmer, Cambridge, 16 1/5 sec.; seven-mile walk, H. Venn, L. A. C., 52 min. 25 sec., first mile in 6.35; wide jump, E. Baddeley, Cambridge...