Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rather early in the day to make any predictions as to the probable outcome of the contest. The "unexpected" forms such a very important element in the chances of base-ball that the role of a prophet is by no means an easy one to fill. At the present writing, however, it seems safe to say that, barring accidents, the first place lies between Harvard, Princeton and Yale...
...University of Pennsylvania still possesses several winners in former inter-collegiate contests. Farries of the Medical School won the mile run in 1884 and 1885, with a record of 4 minutes, 40 seconds. Page, '88, holds the amateur championship of America in the running high jump, with the tremendous record of 6 feet, 1-4 in. Brenton, '88, is said to have cleared 21 feet, 4 inches, in the broad jump. Kohler, '87, is the rival of Renton of the University of Pennsylvania in the bicycle race. As it is probable that neither Hamilton of Yale nor Dean of Harvard...
Tuesday's N. Y. Times has an article on Yale's prospects in the coming contest for the "Mott Haven" cup. The article starts off with the statement that the most enthusiastic Yale man can only figure out second place for his college, and adds, "It seems that though the men who might take a first prize had concluded to let somebody else have a chance. Brooks, '86, the champion college sprinter, positively declines to enter this year. Hamilton, '86, the easy winner of the bicycle race at last year's games, also holds himself severely aloof from the track...
...club combines the advantages of a social resort and a place for exercise, and numbers among its members some of the most famous athletes of New York. Every week a "boxing-night" is announced, and the contest is generally well attended. To athletes and non-athletes alike, a visit to the club-house with its splendid appointments, cannot fail to be interesting...
...unprincipled and corrupt. I am sorry that Mr. Lodge could have given us no other advice than that the doctrine of expediency should be our rule of life, and that the devil should always be fought with fire. If Mr. Lodge will read the history of the Anti-Slavery contest, which he is so fond of quoting, he cannot discover one apology for evil, or one compromise with evil men and methods made by any one of the little band of Abolitionists; and no one can dispute their great and lasting success...