Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...joint meeting of the Manhattan Athletic Club and the Moseley Harriers will be held at Madison-square Garden, New York, on Thursday Dec. 13, commencing at 8 P.M. The following events are open to all amateurs : 60 yards run, handicap; 220 yards run, scratch, barring Myers and Brooks; quarter-mile run, handicap; half-mile run, handicap; one-mile run, scratch (for those who never won a prize at this distance); quarter-mile hurdle-race, handicap; one-mile walk, handicap; and ten-mile run, handicap. Silver cups will be given as prizes to first and second in each event except...
...meeting of the National Association of Amateur Athletes was held recently in New York to discuss a proposed change in the rules of the association. The New York, Manhattan, Staten Island, Williamsburg, American, Scottish-American, Adelphi, and Elizabeth Athletic clubs were represented. A motion was made that the rules be amended so that members of the association be permitted to enter contests in which professional events are included, provided that no professionals be entered in the particular contests in which the members of the association compete. The motion was discussed very spiritedly, and when put to vote was carried, representatives...
...Myers, the Manhattan Club champion, has gone to Baltimore to train for his race with George, the English champion, on Thanksgiving day. George has lost four pounds since the disagreement about the late race. He is proceeding steadily in his work on the grounds of the New York Athletic Club in Mott Haven...
Since my last letter we had our annual fall games. They were held at the Manhattan Athletic Club grounds. The reasons given for holding them there instead of at Mott Haven was that the Athletic Association desired larger audience than there have been for the last few years. The venture was successful, and it is no exaggeration to say that there were as many as fifty spectators on the grounds. More than half of them were competitors, while the other half were marshals and judges of walking. The attendance of the fair ones was unusually large, and it must have...
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