Word: contest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Prize contest in gymnasium...
...Nautilus Boat Club will hold athletic games in the Palace rink, on Clermont avenue, Brooklyn, Tuesday, Feb. 21st, and by special permission of the National Athletic Association, will have a tug-of-war contest for the championship of America. The limit of weight will be 650 pounds with a round belt, under National Association rules. The secretary of the club will be at the New Haven House, Saturday, to receive entries for Yale teams. Princeton, Columbia, Harvard, 23rd Regiment, Crescents of Tynn and Nassaus will enter teams. There will also be at the same time the following handicap events...
...National Athletic Association will hold a tug-of-war contest for the championship of America in Brooklyn on Feb. 21st...
...putting the shot and four pole-vaulting. There is a large number of men practising for running and jumping. The outlook for winning the first and second bicycle prizes at Mott Haven in the spring is good. As the first of the winter meetings takes place so soon, the contestants are working more regularly. The contest for the medal for excellence on the horizontal bar will be very close. Men are daily practising on the rings and at tumbling. AS there are at present no rooms devoted to fencing and sparring, the contests in these branches are uncertain...
...trial contest in the gymnasium, Saturday afternoon, Pennypacker won in putting the shot with a put of 35 feet 6 inches...