Word: amateur
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...probable that the annual regatta of the National Association of Amateur Oarsman will this year be held on the Charles River course...
...other words, they intent to ignore the claims of the old and tried oarsmen of Harvard and Yale, merely because these latter parties have too many previous engagements to accept the challenge of this last aspirant for aquatic honors. College boat races cost more than any other kind of amateur contests because they make no money in return for the expense incurred. For this reason, any one college cannot undertake more than one or two races a year. Now Harvard is already saddled with two races for the coming summer and finds its hands full to keep its present engagements...
...glad to learn that already some of those who hope to compete this year at the Polo Grounds have already begun to get into condition. The competition there is growing year by year greater and greater, and a college champion now if he were to enter in the amateur championships would be fairly sure of being among the first three in his event. Thus as the competition increases so must the previous training be more and more careful...
...number of amateur players have organized a base-ball association for the season of 1884, to be called the Tremonts of Boston...
...Harvard Pudding Club is not to act in Philadelphia this winter. Is that because the Amateur Drawing Room is no more ? Have they not a kind of theatre at the league ? Or if it could not be obtained, there is a goodsized hall on Seventh street connected with the Mercantile Club. But maybe the pudding does not want, or is not allowed, to come. [Progress...