Word: events
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Athletic Association will be held Saturday afternoon on Holmes Field. The meeting promises to be a most interesting one. Since the Mott Haven team has stopped training, boys from the neighboring schools have been allowed to use the track. There will be an important chang in the list of events this year which seems likely to make the meeting more interesting. Throwing the baseball will be dropped out and the one mile run substituted. The former event has always proved tedious and slow and the mile run will tend to enliven things. It seems probable that first place will...
First and second prizes will be given in each event. Entries will close Tuesday, June 12, with John Graham, B. A. A., Exeter street. The entrance fee is fifty cents a man for each event...
...account of the Weld Boat Club races Saturday the pair-oar race was omitted. The winners of this event were D. D. Cassidy '95 and C. E. Bubb...
While the trials of the 100 yards were being run, the high jump, begun at twelve o'clock, was finished. This event was the first one announced. It went to Paine of Harvard, with 5ft. 10 1-2in. Becker of Cornell took second with half an inch less. Third place was tied at 5ft. 9in., between Bloss of Harvard, McComber of Brown, Leslie of the U. of P., and Burke, of Columbia. The point was divided, and in the toss-up Burke won the medal...
From the quarter Merrill went to the 220 yards dash, and in two heats reached the finals, running second to Ramsdell of Pennsylvania in both. The final heat was the last event of the day and Merrill did not feel well enough to run. He would doubtless have done so, however, if Harvard's chances had not been already settled. The race went to Ramsdell in 22 seconds, with Pond of Yale second, and Sewell of Columbia third...