Word: amateurs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Boston Athletic Association will hold a sparring meeting at the club rooms tomorrow evening at eight o'clock. The sparrers are all to be strictly amateur and a large number of them will be men from Technology, Y. M. C. A. and Union. A large number of Harvard men have also entered. The prizes given will be silver medals...
Until recently it was expected that the college athletic associations would continue their connection with the North American Amateur Athletic Association and enter as usual in their coming games. At the meeting, however, of the intercollegiate delegates, held in New York on Saturday, at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, it was unanimously agreed to withdraw from the N. A. A. A. A. The delegates wish it to be understood that their action is not to be construed as approving or disapproving of the principles of any other association. The following officers were elected: President, J. M. Hallowell of Harvard; vice-president...
...issue of last Saturday was published a letter from the Boston Athletic Association, inviting amateur sparrers from Harvard, from Technology and from several gymnasiums of Boston to compete in the sparring meeting at the Club on February 28. This invitation, coming, as it does, just before the winter meeting, is doubly acceptable, and we urge all members of the University who are at all members of the University who are at all interested in sparring, and who intend to enter the winter meeting, to avail themselves of this excellent opportunity, so as better to prepare themselves for the winter meeting...
...Boston Athletic Association will hold a sparring meeting at the Club on Thursday, February 28th, at 8 p. m. Representatives from Harvard, School of Technology, Young Men's Christian Association and Union are invited to compete. All sparrers must be strictly amateur, and none others will be allowed to enter the contest. Entries will close at 7 p. m. Saturday, Feb. 23d, and those desiring to compete will send their names, addresses and weights to William Appleton, Athletic Club, Exeter street, Boston. Prizes will be silver medals. All contestants will please be at the club...
...team. Potter or Allen will probably anchor, and Motte pull number two. The other men trying are of the usual weight but they lack experience. Before the first winter-meeting takes place, it is probable that the captain of the team will arrange several tugs to be pulled with amateur teams in and about Cambridge. The candidates for the team are working hard in the gymnasium every day, but the outlook for a good team can hardly fail to be discouraging as long as the number of men who are trying remains...