Word: club
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...have them in charge have chosen several plays from which the final selection will be shortly made. At all events, it has been decided that there shall be three performances with two different casts, and on each occasion there will be given a farce and a burlesque. The Glee Club will sing between the acts, and thus add another attraction to the theatricals and form an additional element of their success. We hope certainly that undergraduates will not be satisfied with securing seats for themselves, but will aid as much as possible in placing tickets among their friends. The tickets...
Student (greatly excited). I take up that club...
...Greenpoint Athletic Club held a field meeting Nov. 9, in which the handicapper distinguished himself more than the contestants. The following record of his blunders is clipped from the Spirit of the Times. We print it as showing the blunders that are frequently made in giving men distance...
...naturally look, for the champions on the scratch mark, but instead we find M. McFaul, a deaf mute of the Fanwood A. C., whose best effort for the year has been 10 1/2 sec., which was done on his own track and at the games of his own club, and who, away from home, has run no faster than 10 8/4 sec., is put on scratch in a100-yard handicap where three heats are run in 10 1/4 sec., and two heats in 10 sec. This is bad enough, but the quarter is still more curious...
...Watson's best record since 1876 being worse than 7 min. 43 sec., and Phillips's best performance is 7 min. 38 2/5 sec. Such work as this is highway robbery under the guise of handicapping, and is a disgrace to all who are responsible for it. When the club next give any handicap games, if they will submit to us their list of entries, we will cheerfully furnish such information as will enable them to frame a just handicap and avoid such abominations as we saw last Saturday...