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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Cambridge high jumpers are T. M. Jennings and A. B. Johnston. Johnston will also attempt to throw the sixteenpound hammer. He approaches his take off at a slant, has no great amount of spring, and clears the bar all doubled up, his body bent, as if he would grasp his feet and lift himself over. He gives the impression of attempting to sit on the bar. Jennings jumps in better form, taking off usually straight ahead, although he sometimes affects the slanting run. It is probable that the high jump will go to Cambridge, as neither Thompson nor Sheldon...
...greater distance. A. Stickney of Harvard was second in both the dual and intercollegiate events. In the high jump Paine of Harvard could get only third place in the intercollegiate with 5 ft. 10 3/4 in., but in the Yale-Harvard games a week previous he cleared the bar...
...16th of November, 1850. After his preliminary training in the public schools of Boston he went to Harvard, where he graduated in the class of '72. Three years later he graduated from the Harvard Law School, and immediately after his graduation he was admitted to practice at the Suffolk bar. In 1880 he was sent to the House of Representatives from Ward 9 and was twice re-elected to that body. Then he was sent to the Senate for the year '84 from the Back Bay district. Up to this time he had been a Republican, but upon his return...
...pole vault, Hoyt of Harvard and Bucholtz of Pennsylvania left their rivals and tied at 11 ft. 2 3/4 in. Both failed at 11 ft. 6 3/4 in. and were so tired that they kept on failing as the bar was gradually lowered. At this crisis the age and experience of Bucholtz, who is 10 years older than Hoyt, began to tell, and at last when the bar was at 10 ft. 9 1/3 in., the Pennsylvania man went over and Hoyt could...
Running high jump.F. W. Koch, California; G. B. Becker, Cornell; C. J. Paine, Jr., Harvard; J. D. Winsor, Penna., and N.T. Leslie, Penna., all cleared the bar...