Word: amateur
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fifteenth annual spring games (invitation meeting) of the New York Athletic Club take place Saturday, June 9th, at 4 P. M. The following competitions will be open to the associate clubs of the national association of amateur athletes, colleges, members of the Inter-Collegiate Athletic Association, bicycle clubs belonging to the League of American Wheelmen, or gentlemen introduced by members of the New York Athletic Club: 100 yards run, handicap; 440 yards run, handicap; 1-6 mile hurdle race, handicap; half mile run, special; one mile walk, handicap; one mile bicycle, handicap; one mile run, handicap; three mile bicycle, handicap...
...championship games of the National Association of Amateur Athletes will take place in New York today. The games will consist of runs at 100 and 220 yards, a quarter, a half, one mile and five miles, one three and seven mile walk, putting the shot, hammer throwing, hurdle race, pole leaping and bicycle races. Brooks of Yale is expected to contest in several of the shorter runs...
...third annual meet of the League of American Wheelmen takes place in New York today. Oliver & Jenkins, publishers of the Amateur Athlete, have issued a very useful official programme for the convenience of visiting wheelmen...
...Atkinson on his third trial. The bar was then put up to 5 feet 9 1/2 inches; Soren and Harriman failed three times. Atkinson on his second jump cleared the bar in beautiful form thus beating by 1 1/4 inches the best college, and by 1/2 inch the best amateur record in the country...
...meeting of the Union Amateur Athletic Association held in Boston on Saturday, F. S. Billings, '85, won the first heat of the 100-yards dash, in which he was handicapped by four men at distances from one to seven yards, and won second place in the final heat in which the handicaps were from one to six yards...