Word: premier
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...distinctly as W. Renshaw is at the head of the men, so is Miss Maud Watson the premier lady player. Indeed, if anything, she is even a greater champion than the gentleman named, for she has never been defeated, and this, too, despite the fact that, unlike him, she does not hold her championship and play but one match a year, for, with commendable pluck and good nature, she allows all a chance of lowering her colors. She has competed in four open competitions this year, having met and defeated all the best players, among whom we may mention...
...also to be a performance of a Greek play. It is understood that the "Electra" of Sophocles has been selected for the occasion. Not only will women alone take part in it, but as at present arranged ladies only will be admitted as spectators. A daughter of the premier, Miss Helen Gladstone, the vice-principal of Newnham College, Cambridge, will probably have a voice in the arrangements. It may perhaps be considered apropos to this topic if I mention here that the subject of the new opera by Mr. W. S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan will turn...
...inst., at the Crystal Palace London, Maj. Thomas Knox Holmes rode a Premier tricycle 50 miles in 4h. 43m. 26s., completing 52 3-4 miles under five hours. He started at 3 seconds after 12 and ended at 19 seconds after 5, when he had accomplished 53 miles. Maj. Holmes is 76 years of age, and was one of the original members of I Zingari Cricket Club...
Harvard is determined to retain its laurels as premier in athletics during the season of 1883-84. football, lawntennis, lacrosse, baseball, boating, bicycling and cricket and track athletics have begun with a boom, and the prospect is excellent for even a more successful season than last year. Victorious on the river, in athletics, bicycling and lacrosse, with a record to be proud of and with a standard in base-ball, cricket and foot-ball in every way creditable, it stands ahead of any other college in the country...
...races there were 870 survivors residing in Great Britain two years ago, besides others who could not be traced. Many of these had become clergyman, several reaching the position of bishops. The legal profession also absorbed many, justices of the English bench being among this number. Mr. Waddington, ex-premier of France, rowed in 1849, and Dr. Hornby, headmaster of Eton, in the same year, Mr. W. Spottiswood, president of the Royal Society, is also a 'Varsity Crew man. Altogether the list of intellectual oarsmen from Oxford and Cambridge is remarkable and speaks well for the great institution of crew...