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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...were postponed until today. As the men who will compete are in good physical condition and as there are nearly 150 entries, the games should show excellent competition. No insignia will be given to the winners today, but prizes will be awarded for first and second places in each event...
...four-mile race was the last event on the programme. Harvard, Yale, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Chicago, and Columbia all entered teams. Hall, the first runner on the University team, ran a good race, but finished in fourth place. Stone, the second Harvard runner, seemed to be badly used up on his third lap and finished 230 yards behind McEachern of Wisconsin. Colwell then took up the race for Harvard and made the best time of the afternoon. Setting his own pace, he gradually gained on the entire field. At the end of his third lap the pace began to tell...
...weather has made the track slow. The men, however, are in good condition and the games should therefore furnish good competition, if not very excellent performances from the standpoint of records. Prizes will be given for first and second places in each event, but the Wells Cup for the quarter-mile will not be run for. Only the first and second men in the trial heats will quality for the finals. The handicaps will not be announced until directly before the games...
...regular members of the track team were allowed to compete in those games and it has seemed best this year to abolish them entirely and substitute in their place a set of games open only to those who have never made the University track team. The number of events has not yet been decided. Such substitutions as a 50 yards dash and 45 yards low hurdles in place of the harder events will probably be made. In each event first place will count five points; second place, three; third place, two; fourth place, one. Cups or medals will be given...
...indoor track games held in the Twenty-Second Regiment armory in New York Saturday evening. W. A. Schick '05 secured first place in both the 70 yards dash and 70 yards handicap dash in the fast time of 7 1-5 seconds, thereby establishing a new record for that event. In the 70 yards dash M. T. Lightner '03 obtained third place. The putting of the sixteen pound shot was won by C. Robinson '04 with a put of 43 feet. Robinson had a handicap of 18 inches. J. Burke '04, who had a handicap of 3 feet, also...