Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...heads; let them go to work without professional guidance and solve the problem as they best can by themselves! This is. however, the dictum of persons like ourselves who are no longer in the actual fight and can afford to assume an impartial and most wise attitude toward the contest, swayed as we are by considerations entirely different from those which met us when, boys in red and blue, we were of the battle...
...after all? Would we not be charmed as of old by big, useless muscles in the men of our college class who practice daily at the dumb-bells, and prefer unwieldy giants to smaller men with muscles less startling but far greater will-power to punish themselves in the contest? And when it came to preparations for a boat-race against a college with which rivalry, if not exactly deadly, was a tradition of long standing, would it be in us to refrain from securing what advice was possible from professionals who make oarsmanship their means of livelihood? Probably...
After the bout between Tailer and Lee for the college championship in singles, which the latter won after some sharp playing on the part of both contestants, Snow and Tailer the college champions in doubles, beat the Sears brothers, the winners of the spring tournament, three straight sets in an exhibition match. Many friends of both teams were present and were confident of victory for their favorites, which fact added double interest to the contest. The first set was beautifully played by 'both sides until the score stood six games all, when Tailer and Snow won the next two games...
...fifth inning neither side scored and the game was mostly a pitchers' contest. In the fifth Talbot reached first on a muffed third strike, got second on a wild throw by Thayer, and came home when Palmer threw way over centre fielder's head. Austin scored for '88 in the sixth on errors by short stop and passed balls, and the eighth inning left '88 way in the lead...
...farce of a contest, which is presumably for a cup but in reality is for the engraving of the names of winners upon a cup which is no longer open to competition, takes place. The "Mott Haven cup" belongs to Harvard; yet Yale, Princeton and other colleges have been working hard that the names of their best athletes may appear as winners upon the trophy which was won by our athletes last year...