Word: amateurs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Junior Tournament will be held in New York April 16 and 17 and is open only to teams made up of men who have never won a medal under the rules of the Amateur Fencing League of America...
...attention of Mott Haven men is called to the new regulation of the Amateur Athletic Union providing for the registration before the last day of February of all amateur athletes. The regulation reads that "on and after March 1, 1897, in no meeting, game or entertainment that has been sanctioned or scheduled by the Amateur Athletic Union or any of its branches as an open athletic meeting, shall an athlete's entry be accepted unless he shall have received from the secretary of the Amateur Athletic Union a numbered certificate of registration, stating that he is an amateur and eligible...
...Amateur Athletic Union has started a new plan this year in regard to amateur athletes. No one will be allowed to compete in open games sanctioned by the A. A. U. unless he is duty registered. The rule is to go into effect March 1. Entry blanks have been sent around to athletic associations. All athletes who register are given a number and their records and performances can thus be kept track of more accurately...
...Rood, 2 M. S., broke the world's amateur record for lifting a dumb-bell, last night at the Hemenway Gymnasium. The previous record of 201 pounds, 5 ounces, was made in 1874 by R. Pennell of New York, who weighed 215 pounds. Rood is 20 years old, is 5 ft. 6 in. in height, and weighs 145 pounds...
Last evening L. C. Rood of the Medical School fai edio an attempt to break the amateur record in dumb-bell lifting, by putting up a dumb-bell weighing exactly 205 pounds. The record was established in 1874, by R. A. Pennell, in New York, by swinging a bell, weighing 201 1bs., 5 oz., with both hands to the shoulder, and then putting it up with one hand. The gymnasium last night was cold, and Rood was made somewhat nervous by the presence of a hundred spectators. However, he will later try again to break the record...