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...games to held in Brooklyn on the seventh of April by Company A of the twenty-third regiment, there will be ten events open to entries from college men. These events include the following: fifty yards dash, handicap; 220 yards dash, handicap; one mile run, handicap; two mile bicycle, handicap; quarter mile run, handicap; potato race, scratch; one mile walk, handicap; 220 yards hardle; running high jump, the handicap being limited to three inches; intercollegiate tug of war. Gold and silver medals will be awarded as prizes in the contests. In the tug of war, the winning team alone will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Athletic Games at Brooklyn. | 3/20/1888 | See Source »

...Cedarhurst Jockey Club of New Jersey has decided to hold a series of runs on May 12, which will be open to all amateurs. The races in which college men are especially interested are the 100-yards dash, for which a silver cup valued at $500 has been offered, and the quarter-mile run, for which a prize of like value will be given...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 3/13/1888 | See Source »

...held in New York on the evening of April 2. The games will be under the auspices of the Athletic Association of the Twelfth Regiment. All the events will be handicapped by Hegeman, A. A. U. All amateurs are permitted to enter for the following events: 60-yards dash, 440-yards run, 220-yards hurdle race, one mile run, two-mile bicycle race, one-mile walk, tug-of-war, admitting teams of four men each from any company or regiment in the National Guard or Amateur Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New York Athletic Games. | 3/7/1888 | See Source »

...first event was the 440-yards dash, for which there we 40 entries. The final heat was won by A. J. Parker of Yale (15 yards) in 59 secs. Sentillion of Yale was second. No Harvard men were entered in this event or in the running high jump which followed, and for which there were 27 entries. This was won by H. L. Williams of Yale (11 in.) who, with his handicap, jumped 6ft. Shearman of Yale (6 in.) was second with an actual jump...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Yale and Second Regiment Games. | 3/5/1888 | See Source »

...yards dash there were 59 entries, including E. C. Moen, '91, and E. B. Bodley, L. S., from Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Yale and Second Regiment Games. | 3/5/1888 | See Source »

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