Word: islands
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...forty-fourth annual athletic meet of the New York Athletic Club will take place at Travers Island, Pelham Manor, N. Y., Saturday, June 8. These games are only open to members of amateur athletic clubs, and are to be governed by the rules of the A. A. U. No persons will be admitted to the grounds except by invitation. Special trains and boats will reach the grounds before the games. All the events are scratch; gold medals will be given to firsts, silver to seconds and bronze to thirds. Entrance fee one dollar per man for each event. Entries close...
...championships for men, at the Staten Island Cricket and Base Ball Club, Staten Island, June 30 July...
...established general principles of international law. (a) 1t is the custom of nations to maintain jurisdiction over large bodies of waters, and no limit is observed by them as to the extent of their jurisdiction from the shore-e.g. Chesapeake Bay, Bay of Chaleurs, Fortune Bay, Long Island Sound, Battie, formerly Gulf of Manar, etc. (b) A nation's first duty is to maintain the existence of its inhabitants, and a number of the inhabitants of the United States would starve if the government did not protect the seal fisheries. Hall, p. 42; Fur Seal Fisheries of Alaska...
...Staten Island, championship of the United States in doubles, June...
Meadow Club, of Southampton, championship of Long Island, July...