Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...playing for second place in the tennis doubles yesterday, Orcutt and Potter defeated Lee and Tallant. Tailer and Chase withdrew from the contest...
There are 164 entries in the New York Athletic Association games, to be held today, and representatives from Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth and University of Pennsylvania will contest...
...Yale athletic association will occur on the 20th. Several events at this meeting will be open to all amateurs, and a large number of entries has been already received from several of New York's best athletic clubs. Gold and silver medals will be awarded in every contest...
...Davis, '91, won the two mile bicycle race at Lynn last Saturday, and this afternoon he will contest in the mile handicap and the two-mile open races at the Danvers meeting...
...This he would remedy by putting all the sparring and wrestling into the first day, then should the entries prove too large, have a preliminary meeting, and have the winners only compete in the regular one. The two Ladies days might be compressed into one, and a gymnastic contest with Yale arranged to take the place of the third meeting. This would revive the interest, which is not what it should be, in those meetings at which there is no sparring. Mr. Balch ended his report with a reference to the trouble, which has arisen about intercollegiate and college records...