Word: match
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There will be about a dozen competitors in the Rowell walking match. It will take place early in March...
Sexton and Schaefer will play a match game of billiards at Tammany Hall, April 27. The match is for $2,500 a side...
John Ennis, the pedestrian, lost $2,500 on his last walking match, and had to mortgage his property to pay the prizes he had offered...
...taken a prize; bicycle slow race; one-mile bicycle race; two-mile bicycle race; bicycle club drill, by Crescent Club of Boston, twelve men; tugs of war, two classes, viz: military, teams of four men, any weight, boat club and athletic club teams of four men, 600 pounds; polo match; lawn tennis match. The games will take place Jan. 25 at the Mechanics' Building...
John Ennis, manager of the recent walking match in New York, had to mortgage his real estate in order to pay even a part of the prizes...