Word: five
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Wiley, '77, then won the prize for exercises on the horizontal bar, performing some difficult feats in a very graceful manner. The lightweight wrestling, between Messrs. Brett and Latham, then took place. The first bout, lasting twenty-five minutes, was spent in manoeuvring to obtain a hold; Mr. Latham finally threw his opponent, after an exciting struggle, in which Mr. Brett had the under-hold. In the second bout Mr. Latham threw Mr. Brett on his hands and knees, but as this was not a fall, and as the match had already occupied so much time, its conclusion was postponed...
...took place between Messrs. Mudge, '74, and Denton, L. S. S. Mr. Mudge's blows were delivered with considerable force, but the majority of them were skilfully parried by Mr. Denton, who finally succeeded in getting his opponent's head in chancery. At the end of two bouts, of five minutes each, the contest was decided in favor of Mr. Denton. It was the intention of the managers that the two victors, Messrs. Riggs and Denton, should conclude the meeting by sparring together, but as it was already quite late, the match was postponed until the next meeting. More interest...
...writer has been a little hasty in stating that five years' experience has shown the failure of "straight away" racing in America. There is hardly enough to be gained by the slight excitement of seeing the start to compensate for the artificiality of a buoyed course, which he thinks necessary for the safety of a "turning race." This mode of racing is inconsistent with the rest of the idea. On the same ground that the race should not be a show, but an honorable struggle for victory, the interest, being undisturbed by "side-shows," should also be concentrated...
...begin at eight o'clock, and at a quarter past the pianist, with commendable promptness, favored the audience with the overture, which was shortly followed by the "Elixir of Youth." This piece represents the wonderful effect which a bottle of patent-medicine has upon an old lady of seventy-five years, by renewing her youth through successive steps until she reaches the state of infancy...
FROM the Forest and Stream we learn that the National Rifle Association has offered to make any rifle club in the country an auxiliary, as it were, of the Association, in return for an annual payment of twenty-five dollars. This sum will secure to the club who pays it the right to send some of its members to the annual matches at Creedmoor, to receive a bronze medal from the Association to be competed for by the different members of the club, and several other like privileges. We recommend our Rifle Club to consider the proposition...