Word: amateurs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...freshman class at Princeton will probably turn out a good lacrosse team this year as the number of candidates is large and many of them have had considerable experience on various amateur teams. The class has given good financial support, about $75 having already been raised. The men will begin training next week. Following are the names of some of the most promising candidates: A. Riggs, J. Riggs, Marshell, Magic, McKenney, McIlvaine, Milligan, Ames, Stump, Coulter, Pendleton, Tindle, J. Bent, Prentice and C. E. Rieman. Rieman has been elected captain and will undoubtedly serve well as such...
...several years previous to last year the baseball management offered a number of cups to be competed for by amateur or "scrub" nines. The amateur championship contests were always lively and exciting, and often resulted in developing men for the class teams. There are many men in the University who are fond of the game, but who do not play well enough to try for the 'varsity or class nines. All such men would be glad to have the old custom revived this year. Last year the management was so apathetic that even the class championship games were not finished...
Next summer a team of Philadelphia Cricketers will for the second time visit England and do battle with the best amateur teams of England, Scotland and Ireland. The '84 team played seventeen games in all, winning nine, losing four and drawing four, and barring a crushing defeat at the hands of the celebrated Marylebone Club, generally known as the "M. C. C.," which numbers amongst its three thousand and more members, (almost every amateur cricketer of note in England), the record of the team was very creditable. The most notable victory of the Philadelphians was that over the Gentlemen...
...handicap meeting of the National Association of Amateur Athletes of America will take place in Madison Square Garden, New York, next Saturday. It will be the largest athletic meeting ever held, as the entries already number over seven hundred. The list includes some of the most famous athletes of England, Ireland, Canada, and the United States, and it will be strange if several records are not-lowered. Among the men who will endeavor to break records are Westing, M. A. C., champion one hundred yards runner of the world, who will attempt to lower the present record for seventy-five...
...Stoll, of Staten Island Athletic Club, gave an exhibition of rope climbing, making the 35 feet in 10 1-5 seconds. There was only one bout in heavy weight wrestling, contested by Huston, '89, and Pierson, '90, won by Huston. Mr. Molineux of the New York Athletics, and amateur champion of America, won the horizontal bar, after an exhibition of very difficult feats, with Mr. Stoll a good second. In the middle weight wrestling the first bout was won by Homans, '92, who threw Shields, '91, and later threw Curren, '92, in the second bout...