Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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After a most exciting contest yesterday, first on Jarvis Field, and afterwards on the grounds back of Peabody Museum, the nine representing the DAILY CRIMSON was defeated by a score of 19 to 18 in an eleven innings game, to the disappointment of a large number of spectators. The excitement, as well as the heat, were both intense, and as the nines came on the field they were greeted with ringing cheers from their respective adherents. From lach of space, the full score is crowded out of this issue, but for the CRIMSON nine, Bemis, Parker, Austin, Williams, Pierson, Bacon...
...York State College-championship tourney appears, from all accounts, to be a very discreditably conducted contest; for, while the Cornell University club has been playing legitimately, the Hamilton and Union College club teams, as well as that of Hobart College, employ professionals to help them win, and the Rochester University club goes outside of the institution for players. On May 22, Manager Bering of Cornell, made an affidavit, and the University Registrar signed certificate, that all the members of the Cornell nine are regular college students. Hamilton College and Union College both advertised for professionals in the New York papers...
...those who are able, to be present. The opportunities to witness good bicycle races are small, and the fine riders who will take part this afternoon make this an exceptionally good chance. The club has also added the inducement beyond that of ordinary races of having a championship contest between Yale and Harvard. The races are the only means the club have of making money, and the receipts from today's meet ought to leave a handsome balance in their treasury...
...contest for the base-ball championship is now so far advanced that an intelligent view may be taken of the possibilities. Princeton and Dartmouth, having won only one game each, certainly have no chance. Brown with three games lost and four to play, two of these with Yale and Amherst, may be counted out of the race. This leaves Yale, Amherst and Harvard; either of these may possibly win, but Yale, with only one game decided against her, stands the best chance...
...view, as it were, of English social life. Many of the clubs are copies of the London clubs, and social distinctions, which were formerly preserved with absurd exactness still exist, and the young representatives of the English nobility are still apt to secure the big prizes in the contest for social eminence and honors...