Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Saturday morning the game between the Victors and Volunteers, the winners of the two series in the amateur championship contest, was played on Jarvis. The Victors won easily, by a score of 13 to 4, outbatting and outfielding their opponents. The members of the champion nine are as follows: Federhen, '88; Raymond, '89; Edwards, '88; Farnham, '88; Hurey, L. S.; De Lone, '87; Vorse, '89; Quinlan, '90; Ruland, '89; C. S. Hervey, '88, (captain). The Volunteers were given their last innings. The score...
Coxe, '87, and Sherrill, '89, have received offers from the Manhattan Athletic Club of New York, to go to England in July with a picked team, which will contest with the British champions...
...early part of this week, Page of the University of Pennsylvania broke his record in the running high-jump at the Brooklyn Athletic Association games. He cleared 6 feet 2 1-16 inches. He sails for England to-day to contest with the English high-jumpers...
...contest for the athletic cup is different from the other contests, in that a victory is a victory over a dozen colleges at once; every effort should be made to win this victory and when the means for making a good showing and possibly of being victorious, are as simple as they are, it seems as if we ought to contribute generously...
...Pittsburgs have forfeited a game to the Volunteers, making the latter the winners of the first series. The Victors and Volunteers are now left to contest for the supremacy...