Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Saturday the contest for medals to be given those making the best records in the pole-vault and putting the shot were held in the gymnasium. Gibson put the shot 32 feet 5 1-2 inches; Bowen; 31 feet 7 1-2 inches; Manley, 31 feet 4 1-2 inches. In the pole-vault, Leavitt cleared 9 feet 3 inches; Craig, 9 feet; Wheelwright, 8 feet 6 inches, and Dickerman, 7 feet 6 inches. The Athletic Association has decided to offer a medal for general improvement in each of the events...
...bout of the light-weight, Austin, '87, against Hillebrand, '87, resulted in a victory for the former, who thereby won the light-weight cup. The sparring was hard and marked by much clinching. The three rounds were so close that a fourth had to be fought to decide the contest...
Ashe and Shockley fought the three prettiest and most scientific rounds of the day, in the first bout of the middle-weight. Ashe-won the contest...
...London, between the two university crews of Harvard and Yale? And why is this paramount to the intercollegiate regatta rowed on Lake George or Saratoga? Because the element of chance, in winning, is less. That is one reason; and another is, that the interest in the contest is more concentrated, being centred on only two crews...
...first Ladies' Day. It had been proposed to transfer it to the first meeting, which would have brought all the sparring on one already over-crowded day, and also would have unjustly handicapped men who might wish to enter not only the feather-weight, but also the light-weight contests. A number of arguments have been urged, to be sure, against having any boxing on a Ladies' Day, the chief of which was that no lady could with propriety witness the sport. Such an argument is, we may say, puerile; for a feather-weight match properly conducted is merely...