Word: match
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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PARK THEATRE.-"A Parlor Match." Performance...
...Amherst has not appeared at Harvard for several years, although several very strong teams have been put in the field by the Amherst freshmen. The Amherst freshman nine last year was a remarkably good one, and we understand that Amherst has one this year that would be a good match for our freshman nine. The novelty of a game with the Amherst freshmen would surely attract and interested crowd, and the game would be a financial success for the management, as well as a means of getting excellent practice for the nine, so we hope our suggestion will be favorably...
...Yale crew, with six old oars in the boat, has been upon the water for some weeks. Our nine has not as yet played a single match game, while other nines in the league have been getting practice by playing against the best professional teams. It is needless to point out the lesson to be drawn from this state of things. We feel confident that the men who are to represent the crimson upon river and field will do all that can be done to embellish our trophy room, which, to tell the plain truth, has not in recent years...
...Clark against his own desires, to enter the light weight sparring, because of the small number of entries in that event; and the day before, he took one losson in sparring to aid him in defending himself. Now, I ask you if any man would go to a sparring match and allow himself to be pummelled about, merely because if he hit his opponent so hard that he disabled him, he would be declared "fit only for the society of roughs and 'muckers' "? Either the gentleman who was so badly handled was also ignorant of sparring, or else...
...Rupert, president of the Sheff. Gun Club of Yale, has written to the management of the Shooting Club with a view to arranging a rifle match between the colleges...