Word: 4ft
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...standing broad jump, Bullard '89, 9ft. 10in.; mile run, Grover '90, 5m. 10s.; pole vault, Parrot, '80, 8ft. 6in.; hurdle race, '90, 22s. (breading record); throwing baseball, Lord '89, 315ft. 9in; bicycle (slow race), Stephenson '91. 4m. 41 1-4s.; running high jump, Heywood, '89, 4ft. 6in; bean pot race...
...meeting Saturday afternoon. The different sports were closely contested, and in the running high kick the Institute record was broken. The sparring was exciting, but not scientific. Following is a summary of the games: Fence vault, R. C. Williams, '86, 6ft. 7in.; standing high jump, L. C. Wason, '90. 4ft. 7in.; putting shot, J. C. DeBullett, 33ft. 6 1-2 in.; running high jump, L. C. Wason, '90, 5ft. 2in.; fencing, H. A. Craigin; running high kick, L. C. Wason, '90, 9ft.; middle-weight sparring, Hamilton, '89; feather-weight sparring, J. A. Bachelder...
...Hale, '91 (scratch), S. N. Bell, '91 (scratch), J. B. Alexander, '90 (3 inches), F. B. Winthrop, '91 (4 inches), appeared for the running high jump. Hale won with a jump of 5ft. 3 3-4 in. Winthrop covered 4ft. 11 1-2 in., and got second place...
...winter meeting of the P. C. A. A. took place in the gymnasium at 2.30 p.m. The crowd was enormous, all the available room being occupied by the spectators. The following are the records made in each event: Standing high jump - F. Spaulding, '87, 4ft. 8in.; W. Spaulding, '87, 4ft. 7in. Putting the shot - Cook, '89, 34ft. 10 1/4in.; Wagenhurst, '88, second. Tug-of-war - in the first pull '89 and '90 tied, and in second, '90 won by two inches. '88, who drew the bye, won this event by pulling '90 20 inches. Running high jump - F. Spaulding...
THROWING THE HAMMER.Entries, H. B. Gibson, '88, scratch; D. H. Clark, '86, 1ft.; W. J. Bowen, '87, 3ft.; D. B. Chamberlain, '86. 4ft.; J. T Davis, '89, 11ft.; G. L. Hunter, '89, 11ft. Clark won with a throw of 76ft. 9in. to his credit. Record, 88ft. 11in. by Kip of Harvard...