Word: championship
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Invitations have been sent to the athletes of all the higher schools of Greater Boston to compete in a 390-yard championship event. The race will be run at scratch and in heats. The start will be made at the head of the straightaway to do away with the usual crowding at the first corner. Eligibility rules will be awarded the winner, and medals will be given those finishing second and third...
...numerous races the Hunter mile and the three mile run will be most closely watched. In the Hunter mile Ivan Meyers, of the Chicago A. C., the winner of the national championship, will be matched against Mike Devanney, of the Melrose A. A., and J. W. Ryan, of the B. A. A. In the three-mile great things are expected from J. W. Ray, of the Illinois A. C. His chief competitors will be V. Kyronen, of the Melrose A. A., last year's winner, and J. Hennigan, of the Dorchester Club...
Although Cornell has a lot of good material this year in the distance runs and in some of the field events, the society of good sprinters and hurdlers is going to make the task of building up another championship team more difficult than usual. When Moakley had Reller and Van Winkle he was reasonably certain of placing in one or both sprints, and with Starr and Gubb in college the Ithacans were amply protected in the hurdles. Now that all these men are gone, the university must depend on untried material. The most uncertain branches, on the track teak...
Last year the University lost to Princeton but won from Yale, Princeton winning the championship...
...with the minor sports. Their existence from year to year is uneven. A championship team may lose its men by graduation, and the next year the team, composed entirely of green men, will head the bottom of the list. The reasons for a lack of good substitute material in the minor sports are many. One is that men fear the handicap of inexperience. A man who has never tried any sport will go bravely out for football. Yet he will be afraid of fencing because, through his own ignorance, it seems an impossible art to attain...