Word: contestantants
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Ninety Blue Rock targets are to be shot at, thrown from a Blue Rock trap a distance of not less than 40 yards. Each contestant to shoot at thirty targets, 10 consecutively before leaving the score. The first ten to be thrown straight away. The second 10 at a right...
But one contestant appeared for the quarter-mile run, E. Sturgis. He covered the distance without attempting to make fast time.
A. B. Grover was the only contestant in the mile walk. His time was 9 minutes, 32 seconds.
G. H. Merrill, the only contestant in the two-mile bicycle race, rode an exhibition in 7 minutes 13 seconds.
A prize of fifty dollars has been established by the class of '76 at Princeton, to be given to the successful contestant in a debate on a subject of current interest in American politics. The prize is to be known as "The Class of 1876 Memorial Prize for debate in...