Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Today will be an important one for the athletic interests of the college. Rarely, if ever, has it happened that so many important contests should come off on one day. The contest for the cup at the Polo Grounds, the Yale-Harvard base-ball game on our own grounds, and the Yale-Harvard lacrosse game at New Haven, all occur today. For the cup our chances are certainly good; our prospects for the ball game have improved greatly since the Brown game, and there ought to be little doubt as regards the result of the lacrosse game. We hope that...
...longer runs. Mulford, '84, Appleby, '84, Taylor, '84, and Milhau, '85, will probably contest. Taylor made the mile recently in 5 min. 11 3-5 sec., while Appleby ran the half...
...running high jump. - Rapallo, '84, and Adams, '84, will contest in this event. Adams has made over...
...chess contest at London, last evening, Steinitz, Noa and Mackenzie played drawn games with Rosenthal, Winawer and Mortimer, respectively...
...Beacon Park, yesterday afternoon, there was a two-mile bicycle race between C. H. Chenery of the Harvard Law School and Manton Mavrick of the college, to determine which should represent the college in the collegiate contest at the polo grounds in New York, May 26. Chenery took the lead and held it until the last quarter of the second mile, when Mavrick shot by in fine shape and won the race...