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...view to the future and the needs for intercollegiate championship competitions. The sprinting straightaway is 250 yards long and 27 feet, 6 inches wide, and provides ample room for the slowing to a walk at the conclusion of the 220 dash and hurdle events. It allows six hurdles abreast. A heat of eight men can be run for the dashes with ample room and if deemed necessary, ten men can be run abreast without serious danger of interference. At all other points the track is twenty feet wide. The 440-yard run can be made on one turn and finish...
...victory Saturday night at Ocean Pier tank. As was expected Nelligan of Amherst proved the star of the meet taking first place in the 50- and 220-yard dashes. The most exciting race of the evening was the 100-yard dash in which all four entries remained abreast for about three quarters of the distance when Huthsteimer of Amherst pulled ahead and won by inches from Captain Wentworth. A. F. Pickernell '14 had the distinction of being the only man to win first place for the University by going 62 feet in the plunge for distance...
...race for a little over a mile down-stream in the upper part of the Basin. The first and second University crews gave the third and the Freshmen one length handicap. The race was very even, the crews never stringing out enough to show open water. At the finish abreast of Gloucester street the Freshmen led by about a length with the first, second, and third University crews about a quarter of a length apart in that order...
Sixteen competitors started at Harvard Bridge with Withington leading. Nelson followed him closely and gained slowly. At the three-quarter mile mark he had drawn up abreast but caught a crab which checked him so badly that he crossed the line two lengths behind Withington. At the finish Nelson was less than a length ahead of C. W. Peabody '12. R. S. Parker '12, the winner of the race last year, finished a length behind Peabody...
Exciting finishes in the half and two-mile runs featured the annual consolation games in the Stadium yesterday afternoon. In the 880-yard event, J. R. Abbott '14 passed W. M. Danner '18 only four yards from the finish. In the two-mile run, five men were running abreast at the beginning of the last lap. W. A. Perkins '12 gradually drew away from the crowed and C. W. Burrage '13 defeated R. S. Boyd '14 for second place by inches. In the field events, G. Kaemmerling '12 was the best performer, making 20 feet, 7 inches in the broad...