Word: amateur
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...deciding game for the amateur base-ball championship of the college, which is to be played by the Victors and Volunteers, is scheduled for today...
...evils of introducing the professional element into amateur athletics are so great - they are so obvious to those who have dipped into matters of the kind without losing their faculty of criticism in the enthusiasm natural to the pursuit - that the first, the healthful instinct is to cry, Away with it all; give young men their heads; let them go to work without professional guidance and solve the problem as they best can by themselves! This is. however, the dictum of persons like ourselves who are no longer in the actual fight and can afford to assume an impartial...
...pitcher of the Pittsburgs, for more than two straggling hits. This leaves a tie between these two clubs for the championship of the first series; and the club which wins the next game will have to play the Victors the champions of the second series, for the amateur championship of the college. The latter game is scheduled for next Saturday morning...
...Yale's popular and plucky catcher, however, saw that if Stagg became a member of the Bergen Point nine the college would not suffer as much as if he accepted a professional offer, and gracefully consented to the change. Stagg and Dann, without doubt, form one of the strongest amateur batteries that ever appeared on the diamond, and by securing the former Bergen Point, having won a game from the Nassaus, has an almost sure thing in the race for the amateur championship.-Globe...
Yesterday morning the Crimsons and Volunteers played their second game for the amateur championship. The game was the closest and best played of any, thus far, both sides playing an almost errorless game. For six innings both teams went out in one, two, three order, the work of the batteries being extremely effective. After that, the Volunteers, by timely hits and by an error of the second baseman of the Crimsons, scored the winning runs, as their lead was too great to be overcome. The Crimsons pluckily tried to win, however, in the face of these obstacles...