Word: contested
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Harvard men without doubt will enter for these games and many of the Mott Haven men who will begin training next week will also practice for the events of this contest. Harvard will be especially well represented in the dashes, in most of which she will enter three or four men and sometimes more...
...athletic contest between students of Yale and members of the Second regiment, C. N. G., will be held March 8. There will be twenty events. Invitations will be sent to the various college athletic organizations, and to the New York and Boston athletes clubs. It is expected that many of the best amateur athletes in the country will compete...
...have been held Monday afternoon but no one appeared. It is to be deeply regretted that '90 showed no interest in the organization of a team, for unless all the classes are to be represented at the winter meeting there cannot well be a tug-of-war contest, as a three sided competition is unfair for one of the teams. It is to be hoped that sufficient '90 men will come forward to organize. That there is good material is well known and it should certainly be incumbent on every available man to come forward. The management of the team...
...putting the shot contest there were thirty-nine entries but as many other events were in progress, it excited little attention save from men especially interested in this form of sport. The score is as follows: 1, Mitchell, N. J. A. C., handicap 1 foot, 41 feet, 41/2 iches; 2, Whitman, B. A. A.; 3, Giannini...
...been apparent. When sifted to the bottom much of the objection to tug-of-war seems to be in the manner of training. The candidates have been in the habit of preparing themselves by practice pulls which are in reality almost as much of a strain as the actual contests. Instead of this the men ought to undertake a regular system of exercise, just as much as runners or jumpers and, as we understand, this was the method of training proposed by the H. A. A. for this year. With such a change a great part of the objection...