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...Beacon Park, Friday, May 24, and proved the most successful that the Association has ever held. Only one event was struck off the programme from the lack of competitors, and the races followed each other without the painfully long delays which usually mark meetings of this kind. The first race, which was started promptly at 4 o'clock...
...Hundred - Yards Dash, First Heat. - Entries : J. E. Cowdin, '79, W. M. Conant, '79, L. B. Harding, '79. Won by Cowdin; time,11 sec. Conant, second. Second Heat. - Entries : W. R. Duncklee, '80, R. Bacon, '80, J. Holmes, '79, B. S. Blanchard, M. S. Won by Bacon; time, 10 1/4 sec. Holmes, second...
Bicycle Race (3 miles). - L. Foster, '81, C. A. Parker, '80, F. E. Cabot, '80, A. S. Tubbs, '79, F. Sharon, '80. Foster dropped out at the end of the first mile, and Tubbs and Sharon took no part in the race. First mile (time, 4 min. 4 sec.) Parker ten yards ahead. Second mile (time, 4 min. 17 sec.), Cabot ahead. Third mile, and the race won by Parker, one length ahead. Total time...
...intimate was the connection between Harvard and Andover in days gone by may be seen from the fact that among the pupils of the first year at the academy were John Abbott and Josiah Quincy, who became respectively a tutor and the president of this college. President Kirkland also graduated at Andover. The first principal of Phillips Exeter Academy, and the founder and first principal of Williston Seminary, were Andover graduates...
...Hundred-Yard Dash and Quarter-Mile Run was most excellent, - remarkable when we consider that it was made on a track of loose dirt, instead of a cinder path. The Bicycle Race produced capital sport, every inch of the three miles being closely contested. It was, we believe, the first race ridden by amateurs in the country. Next fall, with a proper cinder track on Holmes or Jarvis, we hope to see larger fields of starters and equally fast and close races. The time made in all the events proves that as athletes we are, with proper training, inferior...