Word: rink
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...annual spring indoor sports of the M. I. T. A. C. will take place March 2 at 2 o'clock in the Winslow Skating Rink in Boston. They are open to members of the H. A. A. and Boston Athletic Club. Prizes will be offered for all the following events in which there are at least two contestants: Running high jump, standing high jump, running high kick, putting shot (16 lbs.), fence vault, sparring in featherweight (127 lbs.), lightweight (140 lbs.), middle-weight (160 lbs.), tug-of-war (600 lbs.) All competitors must be weighed at 12 o'clock...
...consist of exercise with the chest weights and Indian clubs, and a run of two or three miles each day. The tank will be accessible to the crew at certain hours, while the nine will have the use of the cage, and, in all probability, the New Haven skating rink, which will be of immense advantage during the winter months. The freshmen, since their football defeat, have been very anxious to get revenge on Harvard, and the manner in which they are going to work looks as if they might...
...rigid discipline. Dietary restrictions are numberous, and only the most wholesome and simple food is allowed. The hours for work have been lengthened, and every man is kept to his duty. The candidates now practice batting in the cage on Saturday afternoons, and play hand-ball in the rink from 4.30 to 5 every afternoon; from 5 to 5.30, chest-weights and Indian clubs, and from 5 to 6, base-sliding in the cage. Rumor has it that the batting is nothing to speak of, and that the sliding is considerably below par. The men are coached by Osborn...
...Boston base-ball team began practice yesterday afternoon in Winslow's rink...
...special effort is being made at Yale to develop men for the hurdle races to be contested in the Mott Haven games this spring. Men are training for the 220, as well as for the 120-yards race, in the rink at New Haven. A series of hurdles have been placed near the gymnasium and many of the men practice there in pleasant weather. The following are the names of the men most active in practicing for this event: Berger, '88 S., captain; Lentelhon, '89 S., Gruiswold, '90, Tracey, '90, Parker, '91, and Deening...