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...convenience of reference we publish below the general programme of events for the coming winter meetings of the H. A. A. First meeting, March 10. Events - Parallel bars, putting the shot, heavy-weight sparring, middle-weight spurring, heavy-weight wrestling, middle-weight wrestling, light-weight wrestling, feather-weight wrestling, tug-of-war, '85 and '86 (pulled on cleats, six hundred pounds, limit five minutes). Second meeting (ladies' day), March 17th. Events - Two-handed vault, club-swinging (legitimate, five minutes limit), standing high jump, running broad jump, light-weight sparring, feather-weight sparring, fencing...
...amateur sparring and wrestling championships of America, will be held at Tammany Hall Saturday, February 24, 1883, at 8 o'clock P. M. The following competitions will take place: Sparring - Heavy weight, over 158 lbs.; middle weight, 158 lbs. and under; light weight. 135 lbs. and under; feather weight, 115 lbs. and under. Wrestling - Catch-as-catch-can; light weight, 135 lbs. and under; middle weight, 158 lbs. and under. Entrance fee $1.00 for each event. Entries close on Saturday, February 17th. Address the secretary, P. O. Box 3101, New York City...
...great friendliness which has grown up between the two colleges; and in behalf of my fellow-students to thank you all for your always courteous treatment, which causes us when we are defeated by you, although feeling badly for ourselves, nevertheless to rejoice that there is one more feather for Harvard...
...American college eight, and it is only in front of these that individual faults are to be found which mar the perfect uniformity and symmetry of the crew. Captain Hammond, who rows at No. 4. carries his oar up too high at the end of his feather and misses the first part of his stroke. He begins the swing before dropping his oar blade into the water, and then when he does get hold his swing is retarded and his shoulders give with the strain put upon them. The swing is thus subdivided into two movements. Bow is the only...
...first bout in the Feather Weight Sparring was not held, and Lowman and Heilbron contested the final and only bout immediately after the standing high jump. Heilbron had the slight advantage of being the taller, but Lowman was very plucky, and succeeded in reaching the face of his taller adversary very forcibly. In the first part of the second round Lowman was floored by a well-directed blow on the temple from Heilbron. After this Lowman sparred more cautiously, and made several good blows. In the third round both men came up to the scratch smiling and did some very...