Word: events
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...indoor season of athletics will be reopened by a grand carnival of events at Madison Square Garden, New York, on Nov. 26 under the auspices of the Manhattan Athletic Club, The events will be open to all amateurs and three A. A. U. limit prizes will be given in each event. Entries close Nov. 18 with Mr. E. Van Schaick, captain and chairman, Athletic Committee, Madison avenue and Forty-fifth street. The events are: Athletic 70 yards dash, handicap; 175 yards dash, handicap; 350 yards run, novice; 600 yards run, handicap; mile run, handicap; 175 yards hurdle...
First and second prizes, which were on exhibition at Leavitt's, will be given in each event in which there are three or more contestants. The games will begin promptly at half past two o'clock tomorrow and will be under the management of the following officers...
This year, however, we should make a better effort on our part, we should get the public more interested in the event, and therefore, to make it a greater success, the debate here should be held in Boston. By this means a greater interest would be taken in it by outsiders and a larger and better hall could be obtained. Yale held the New Haven debate last year in a large public hall filled by an audience of citizens as well as students, and it was a great success. Moreover they received our representatives with great cordiality and entertained them...
...abolishing the mile walk another event ought to be substituted. The three mile run has been proposed by the Inter-collegate Athletic Association. The event added to the regular list would enable cross country runners, now ipso facts unfitted for track events, to compete in them, and by giving track athletes greater endurance, would enable them to lower present records...
...class as a whole deserves censure for its lack of support. The entries were larger than last year, but a great nunber of the competitors failed to appear. The mile walk, and mile run had to be abandoned, as only one man was on hand in the former event, while none whatevey came out in the former. Most of the shot and hammer men were playing football, and these event were postponed until today...