Word: amateur
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Association of Amateur Oarsmen has decided to hold four and eight oar shell races at the annual regatta...
...annual meeting to decide the amateur championships of boxing and wrestling will be held on March 1st., under the auspices of the New York Athletic Club...
...proposed visit of an English team of amateur cricketers to America next season has been abandoned...
...George, the English amateur champion runner, has again been distinguishing himself, and has once more defeated his plucky little rival Snook, this time over a ten mile course. The contest was the Birchfield annual ten mile race at Aston, on Monday Dec. 24, and George won in the splendid time of 53 minutes 15 seconds, Snook being second, 1,250 yards...
...statements made by the N. Y. Times, contained in an article on the first page. we are not preapred to vouch for. As for Mr. Tyng's rocord we know that he is not now considered a professional ball player, he having been a member of a New York Amateur club of good standing last season. Such being the case, it is impossible that he should ever have received money for services on the ball field. Therefore, in the case of Mr. Tyng we think that the N. Y. Times is seriously at fault...