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The athletics practiced at Athens fell under one or the other of six sports: leaping, running, throwing the discus, hurling the javelin, boxing and wrestling. No one but professionals, however, paid much attention to boxing. All these exercises, with the exception of boxing, were combined in the Pentathlon, which took...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Athletics at Athens. | 2/14/1885 | See Source »

1 An elegant edition of the Recorder, bound in crimson cloth, containing all the rules, superbly illustrated with magnificent colored cuts of the Gymnasium, the big dumbbell, view of the dressing-room by moonlight, and portrait of the Director, has recently been published by Mauzis Khan (Harvard College).

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A BIT OF PAPER. | 1/23/1880 | See Source »

THE boating men at Exeter walk twelve miles, and run three every week, in addition to their Indian-club and dumbbell exercises.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 3/12/1875 | See Source »

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