Word: contest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...mile. open; 3. 220 yards. open; 4. One-half mile backward, open; 5. One mile Mass chusetts championship; 6. Hurdle race, New England only: 7. Potato race, open to boys under 20 years old; 8. Boys' race, open to all under 15 years old; 9. Figure skating contest...
...matched contest is talked of between Sherrill of Yale, Lee of Harvard and Cary of Princeton, the distance to be run being 50, 100, 150 and 220 yards, for the intercollegiate championship of America...
Entry blanks and rules governing the contests may be obtained from H. S. Cornish, Athletic Manager of the Association. The entrance fee is one dollar for each event; entries will be received at Club House, Exeter Street, up to and including Saturday, January 17. 1891, at 10 p. m. No prizes will be given in any class without a contest...
...prizes at Princeton in the Senior Baird contest have been announced as follows: First Baird prize, Edward Wilson Aull, St. Louis, Mo.; for oratory, Hugh McNinch, Grovania, Pa.; for delivery, Phineas B. Kennedy, Bridgeton, N. J.; Disputation-first prize, Ambrose W. Vernon, Morristown, N. J.; second prize, James C. Meyers, Columbia, Pa; Poetry-prize, Edward W. Evans, Jr., Trenton...
Alward, L. S., as representative of the B. A. A., won a wrestling contest Wednesday evening at the Pastime A. A. in New York from J. H. Hughes, who has held the championship of the United States. It took about three hours, the longest bout ever wrestled in American. Hughes was finally thrown by a half-Nelson. Alward will meet Hoskin of the Schuylkill Navy A. A. in the final heat on Saturday night...