Word: amateur
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...game of base-ball between the Rollstones and Harvard at Fitchburg Saturday resulted in a tie at the end of ten innings, the score being 6 to 6. Smith pitched very effectively. The Rollstones is one of the strongest amateur nines in the state...
...friendly tennis match on the Longwood grounds Saturday, R. D. Sears, the amateur champion of New England, defeated Thomas Pettit, the champion court tennis player of the world. The match was the best in five games, and Sears won the first 6-2, Petite the second 6-5,and the others won by Sears...
...amateur photographer here, who took photographs of many of the events at the Mott Haven sports, has an instantaneous one of the start of the last heat in the hundred yards dash This picture should be published and circulated at every college, as showing the unfairness with which Harvard was treated. It is seen by the picture that every man but Holden over the line, while Bonine has already begun to run. Thus is chicanery by which Harvard lost the race becomes manifest...
...Harvard lacrosse team yesterday defeated the Druids, the champion amateur lacrosse team of the United States, by a score of five goals to three...
...acting itself can naturally not be spoken of from a professional point of view; that even the most gifted amateur can learn much from the worst and stupidest professional is a truth which no one can gainsay. Yet it was a rare comfort last evening to find that every member of the large cast really knew what he was talking about. This is a feeling that one does not often experience in the face of the professional stage. Everything that was done was governed by evident intelligence; the gestures, if not always graceful and forcible, were generally appropriate...