Word: amateur
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Williams college holds the world's amateur record in throwing the base-ball, with a throw of 127 yards 2 1-2 inches...
...amateur military spring athletic games are to be held in New York on the evening of April 2. The games will be under the auspices of the Athletic Association of the Twelfth Regiment. All the events will be handicapped by Hegeman, A. A. U. All amateurs are permitted to enter for the following events: 60-yards dash, 440-yards run, 220-yards hurdle race, one mile run, two-mile bicycle race, one-mile walk, tug-of-war, admitting teams of four men each from any company or regiment in the National Guard or Amateur Club...
...Harvard '90 team did not appear, having been notified by Dr. Sargent, at the last moment, not to enter. As Clement, '88, and Hale, '91, did not contest, Ashe, L. S., was the only Harvard representative. In his first bout he easily defeated Gassett, an English amateur, after three exciting and scientific rounds. His splendid training showed itself in his second bout, with Hanlan, the latter refusing to come to time for the third round...
Entries for the Mass. Institute of Technology's spring athletic meeting on March 3, which is open to amateur members of the H. A. A., the B. Y. M. C. A. and B. Y. M. C. U. gymnasiums, may be made to L. F. Small, of the Association gymnasium, the janitor of the Tech gymnasium, or to Nathan Durfee...
...able to jump 5 ft. 6 in. Tickets for the games are now on sales at Music Hall. The medals are on exhibition at the corner of Winter and Washington streets, Boston. The probabilities are that the games will be of great interest to college men and amateur athletics generally...