Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...private road running along under the shade of the trees, which affords a chance for spectators in carriages and coaches to look directly down on the contestants. Every seat in the grand stand is a good one, which can not be said of the seats on the Manhattan track. The view from the grand stand is beautiful. The ground gradually recedes till it reaches the Hudson running at some distance in the valley below. On the other side of the river the Palisades begin here to rise to a considerable height and stretch off dimly to the northward...
...Manhattan Athletic Club of N. Y. intends to hold four out door meetings before October...
...offered by the leading dealers in bicycles and sporting goods in the country. They will be placed on exhibition at Leavitt and Pierce's several days before the meeting. Invitations to send representatives have been sent to all the large athletic clubs, including the Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Pennsylvania, Manhattan, Technology, New York and Boston clubs, besides all the preparatory schools in the vicinity. Many men have already signified their intention of competing and everything points to a most successful meeting...
...candidates for the Mott Haven team will begin work about March 1 on the grounds of the Manhattan Athletic Club. Many of them are already in training on their own account, and expect to enter the games of the N. A. A. A. A., March 2; Yale games in the middle of March, and the Harvard games, March 30. Columbia has great hopes of winning the cup this year. The events which they expect to take and the men they are depending upon are the tug-of-war team; H. Mapes, '92, in one if not both hurdles; Banks...
...England, Ireland and the continent. Letters have already been received from prominent English and Irish clubs asking the team to take part in games to be organized specially for it. To select members of the team, a series of games will be held at the grounds of the Manhattan Athletic Club on May 18, which will include all kinds of out-door sports and on May 20th a ten-mile run will take place. These meetings will be open to all amateur athletes in the United States and Canada. The team will take part in limited handicap meetings in England...