Word: mottes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...captain of the Mott Haven team publishes a notice this morning which is of interest to all men who are training for the team. The First Regiment games, which occur the last of this month, are the first games of the year in this vicinity open to Harvard men, and all candidates for the Mott Haven team who can get in condition for them should enter. These meetings afford a pleasant variety of training and the experience gained from them is of the greatest value to our athletes. Nothing trains the judgment in athletics like actual competition, and lack...
There is at present no one at the gymnasium whose province it is to give regular instruction in indoor gymnastic work. Mr. Lathrop used to take it upon his shoulders and does now as far as possible, but the responsibility of training a hundred and twenty candidates for the Mott Haven team, so loads him with work after the Christmas recess, that he has no time for anything else. The result is that, unless a man has a fair knowledge of indoor work when he comes here, he has no chance to learn anything. The natural effect is to-kill...
...correspondent calls attention this morning to an undoubted need at the gymnasium. With nearly two hundred candidates for the Mott Haven team on his hands Mr. Lathrop has no time to undertake the actual work of instruction on the floor of the gymnasium. And yet the need of this instruction is imperative. The mass of new men who resort every year to the gymnasium ought to receive substantial encouragement. The best way to give them this encouragement is to teach them how to use and enjoy the gymnasium. It is impossible to do this now, and as our correspondent says...
...PERKINS,4 Stoughton.ANOTHER squad of the Mott Haven teams will train...
JOHN S. COOK.As many men as can are asked to train with the morning squads of the Mott Haven team...