Word: amateurs
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...until the last of June will play through the States and Canada. Its games with the New York and Philadelphia clubs promise to be very interesting. The team plays an American eleven in Philadelphia about the 15th of June. The next team to visit the States will be the amateur eleven of the Lascelles Club, and as this club has practised base-ball in England lately, it will play with some of our amateur as well as professional nines, including the college teams of Yale, Harvard, and Princeton. The third team will be a professional one under Daft, and will...
...with pleasure that I comply with your invitation to say something about the newly projected intercollegiate regatta under the auspices of the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen; for my desire that this deserving experiment should be successfully carried through at Newark or Saratoga is second only to my desire that the annual University boat-race between the two old Colleges should be permanently established at New London, under a management that shall not be handicapped by the simultaneous presence upon the river of any other crews whatever. As it seems to me, on the one hand, that Harvard's support...
...Athletic Club has announced its second annual assault-at-arms for February 21 and 22 for the amateur championships in the following contests...
...meeting of the Consular Representatives of different governments was held recently in this city, to consider a proposition for having a grand World's International Amateur Rowing Regatta in August of next year upon the Lake of Geneva, comprising the general order of races, with a series of special races for University Oarsmen...
...also add that the Representatives of the different governments will do all in their power to render the visit of the Rowing World to Geneva most enjoyable, and the occasion one which will prove a delightful episode in the history of Amateur Regattas...