Word: barring
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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THIRD WINTER MEETING, SATURDAY, MARCH 28TH. LADIES' DAY.Running high jump, flying rings, rope climbing, pole vault, horizontal bar, running high kick, tumbhling, final...
...first annual gymnastic competitions for the amateur championships of America, will be held under the auspices of the American Athletic Club, at Tammany Hall, New York City, February 19, commencing at 8 P. M. The following events will be open to all amateurs: Horizontal bar, parallel bars, flying rings, and club swinging. A handsome gold championship medal will be awarded to the winner, and a silver medal to the second, in each event...
...standing on the threshold of an era of better things. In the days of our college career. We were want to consider a gymnasium as extremely well supplied with apparatus if it contained a few pairs of dumbbells and Indian clubs, with the addition of a pair of parallel bars, and a horizontal bar: now, upon entering a gymnasium fitted up according to modern ideas, one is fairly bewildered at the maze of complicated apparatus which meets the eye. Bathing facilities were rare, in the old days: now no gymnasium is complete without its copious supply of water...
...Parallel Bars, Bachelder, L. S. will enter. In Putting the Shot Homans '85, Curtis, L. S,, Chamberlain and Clarke, '86, will contest. In the Two-hand Vault, Batchelder. L. S., and Atkinson, '85, will enter. In the Standing High Jump there will probably be a large number of entries, among them being Batchelder, L. S., Rogers, '87, Fessenden. '86. Chamberlain, '86, and J. D. Fiske, '86. All the old men have signified their intention of going in to the Horizontal Bar contest, namely Dudly and Osgood, 87, Batchelder, L. s., and Faulkner, '86. Among the contestants for the Running High...
...When the oar is turned as when pulling against the water the rod is pressed against the sides of the blocks giving friction enough to make the stroke about as hard as when rowing in water, but when the oar is turned as in feathering, the bar slides freely in the grooves of the blocks. The block is hung on pivots so as to give the proper verticle component of the motion...