Word: prize
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Turf, Field and Farm will offer an international cup, to be rowed for in August next. Ten men, including Hanlan and Lee, will contest for the prize, under the London Sportsman rules...
...contested at Harvard with ridiculous ease, and bids fair to be a phenomenon. He runs easily, and in comparison with his antagonists seems to go no faster than a jog. Delafield promises well for the mile run. '85 distinguished itself in this meeting by receiving only one prize, the second in the half-mile run '86 won six first and two second prizes; '83, four first and one second; '84, three first and four second; '85, one second. - [Clipper...
...special interest to freshmen - a $300 prize. The authorities of the Johns Hopkins University offer this valuable prize, open to the students of any college and to persons interested in mathematics, for the valid proof or disproof of this proposition: "A ground form and a syzygant of the same degree and order cannot appertain to the same binary quantity," The solution must be handed in before...
There is considerable excitement manifested in sporting circles over a proposed prize fight, for $2,500 a side, between Tom Allen, ex-champion pugilist of America, and John L. Sullivan of Boston...
...hare and hounds run of the Bicycle Club will take place on Thursday afternoon at a quarter past three o'clock. The start will be made from the steps of Matthews. The run will be between fifteen and twenty miles long, and the roads chosen are good. A prize will be awarded to the first hound in, and to each of the hares if they beat the hounds. The hares will be Mr. Eliot Norton and Mr. Adams D. Claflin...