Word: amateur
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...large number of entries have been made for the sparring championship contest to be held in Music Hall, Boston, Feb. 27. Entries have been sent from Cambridge, Wakefield, Roslindale and Portsmouth, N. H. A great deal of interest has been manifested by the amateur sparrers of Boston, and each gymnasium will be represented by several men. The sparring weights are 125, 140 and 160 pounds limit for the feather, middle and lightweights. Only amateurs will be admitted to the competition. They entry book will be open till Friday, February 24, and all applications should be sent to the sectary...
...where the complete apparatus for all public sports was often combined with free baths and lecture halls-the larger cities had associations for the promotion of special favorite exercises. Wrestling, javelin-throwing, running, leaping, pitching the quoit, riding, driving, climbing ropes, shooting the arrow, were all practiced by amateur clubs, each one devoted to its special form of games. The dominant passion with the Greeks was a love of beauty and harmony, to which they joined a joyous sense of well-being. It was under the inspiring sky of that country, and in the midst of living models formed...
...number of college men, most of them graduates, met recently in Chicago and organized a university base-ball association with A. L. Packard as president, F. B. Parker as vice-president, and F. M. Tilden as treasurer. They contemplate forming the best amateur nine in the country made up of college men for the purpose of taking an eastern circuit during the spring and summer college months. Most of those who have been already selected have graduated within the last five years and all of them are known as excellent players. The first nine men are: Fred M. Tilden, Harvard...
...national amateur athletic organization called the Amateur Athletic Union of the United States has been formed in New York...
...number of the amateur photographers in college have been to Bradford to photograph the Boston and Maine railroad...