Word: amateur
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...eight annual championship meeting of the National Association of Amateur Athletes of America will be held in New York, Saturday, June 2d. The programme, of the meeting has recently been published, of which the following is a synopsis. Entries are invited from college athletes. The following definition of an amateur is given: "An amateur is any person who has never competed in an open competition, or for a stake, or for public money, or for gate money, or under a false name; or with a professional for a prize, or where gate money is charged; nor has ever...
...third place. A special prize will be awarded to the competitor making a best on record. An entrance fee of two dollars for each event must accompany all entries. Entries close May 26th, and must be made by mail. All communications should be addressed to the Secretary National Association Amateur Athletes, Post Office Box 3478, N. Y. City...
...Reuter, '83, has been appointed to represent Harvard on the executive council of the National Amateur Lacrosse Association...
...Columbia College Athletic Association having passed resolutions charging James Robinson with absence from duty and disobedience of orders, the Princeton correspondent of the Amateur Athlete says : Mr. J. Robinson was never under contract to the C. C. A. A. While promising forty men, they only produced from five to eighteen. He left voluntarily on the 14th, and was discharged on the 17th. We only mentioned this because everybody here is so well pleased with his work, that we think it would be wrong to have him misrepresented...
...While there was a good prospect of the anti-professional rule becoming general, we were willing to put up with a good deal of temporary inconvenience in order to bring about the accomplishment of that result. We have always insisted that professional influences ought to be kept out of amateur athletics as far as possible. But there is such a thing as carrying the policy of exclusion too far. For Harvard to insist upon this policy after it has been abandoned by all other colleges is simply to invite defeat for her teams at the hands of the teams...