Word: amateurs
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...GEORGE LEE, the Newark amateur who so nearly won at Henley last year, has become a professional oarsman, and has made his first match with J. A. Kennedy of Portland...
Friday and Saturday evenings: First, open to students from any college, 1-mile walk, 1-mile run, half-mile run, quarter-mile run, 220-yard run, 75-yard run, running high jump, tug-of-war, teams of 6 men. Second, open to any amateur, 2-mile handicap walk, 1-mile handicap walk, 1-mile handicap run, half-mile handicap run, quarter-mile handicap run, 75-yard handicap run, 440-yard handicap hurdle - race, 20 hurdles, 2 ft. 6 in. high, 3-mile bicycle race, 1-mile walk (barring 7-minute men), amateur tug-of-war (teams of 10 men), amateur...
...Columbia College Athletic Club, to be held on the evenings of April 4 and 5, at Gilmore's Garden, New York. First and second prize medals will be offered for each event. The first evening will be devoted to College Athletes exclusively, the second to sports open to any amateur. In addition to these sports there will be, on April 5, beginning at 1 P.M., a four-hour go-as-you please race, open to any amateur...
...mile and a half straightaway, like all the other races of the N. A. A. O.; and that definite decisions as to these two points, and as to the exact days of the regatta, may be expected by March 15. The probabilities are that the non-collegiate amateur races (which undergraduates may compete in if they wish) will extend through the three days immediately following the day of the college races, and will be contested by oarsmen "representing all the prominent rowing clubs from Illinois to the Gulf of Mexico, from Massachusetts to Michigan...
...These men who manage the association do not make any money by it, nor advertise any locality through it, nor grind any axes with it. Their inspiring motive, so far as an outsider of some experience in such matters may judge, is an enthusiasm for the encouragement of honest amateur aquatics, and for the suppression of paid oarsmen at all hazards. The presumption that the college races under their auspices will be satisfactorily managed must be admitted to be a strong one by any reader of the following press comments concerning their regatta at Newark, on the 20th and 21st...