Word: american
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Prof. Josiah P. Cooke has gone to Newport to attend the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science...
...many prizes in almost every description of out-door sports. Since his retirement from the track he has trained men with marked success purely from a lively interest in, and love of the sport, and the fact that his timing of records is accepted by the National Association of American Athletes, is a proof of his high standing in athletic circles. It may, perhaps, be needless to add that his appointment, as far as can be ascertained, is recommended by all athletic men in college, and would be endorsed by many outside who have personal knowledge of his character...
...Harvard graduate in London is agitating the scheme of sending an American inter-collegiate foot ball team to England...
...water, it has taken a firm hold, and the number of its devotees is rapidly increasing. Combining, as it does, the requisites of exercise, amusement, and excitement, it offers strong inducements to lovers of out-door sports. The popularity of the sport is shown by the existence of the American Canoe Association, which now has a membership of over eight hundred, which is rapidly increasing. This association holds annual meets, which are attended by a large number of gentlemen from both the United States and Canada, and at which canoe races of all varieties are held, the competition being very...
...business is to be given a decided impetus in this country next season. The Overman Wheel Company of Chicopee, Mass., is to put the "Victor" bicycle on the market, and George Warrick, formerly a bicycle builder in London, and a holder of numerous patents, as well as licensee of American patents, proposes to establish a bicycle manufactory near Springfield...