Word: amateur
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will be remembered that the University of Pennsylvania has one of the strongest amateur cricket elevens in this country, having the advantage of practice games with the well-known Philadelphia and Germantown cricket clubs...
...Amateur Athletic Union will hold its first annual championship boxing, fencing and wrestling contest on Friday, April 6th, in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York. The classes will be arranged according to the weights of the contestants, and the winners of the finals in the various bouts will be given handsome gold medals. Only members of athletic organizations of acknowledged good standing will be allowed to compete, and precaution will be taken to exclude all doubtful amateurs. The entrance fee will be two dollars. All intending to compete must notify Otto Ruhl, No, 104 West 55th street, New York, before...
...firm of Bailey, Banks and Biddell, of Philadelphia, has offered, through the Athletic Club of the Schuylkill Navy, a new kind of championship trophy to the Amateur Athletie Union of the United States, recently organized. It is a solid silver plaque with a background of plush, framed in carved oak. It has engraved on its surface 23 disks, which represent walking, throwing the shot, tennis, running, lacrosse, skating, fencing, rowing, swimming, bicycling, boxing, and other sports embraced in the union...
...earnestly to obtain a firm footing for the game. The team has been very successful in its matches with teams from the neighboring towns, but those interested naturally want a wider field. Therefore they have arranged a game with a team from the University of Pennsylvania, probably the first amateur cricket eleven in the country. This game is to take place on Holmes Field, a fact which ought to add further interest to the match. There are many men in college who have played cricket in preparatory schools or elsewhere, and we urge such men to come forward...
...Beacons, the well-known amateur base-ball nine of Boston, have organized for the coming season, and will play their usual game with Harvard, probably on Fast Day. This club stands at the head of all the amateur nines in the country, and is in fact purely amateur, as no pay whatever has ever been given to a player, even for a single game. Many of the members are college-graduates and interest is kept up during the winter by monthly dinners. It used to be said that the club never played two games in a season with exactly...