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...also to all members of the Union, will be held in the Trophy Room of the Union directly after the games. Refreshments will be served, and the prizes, consisting of gold medals for first place, silver for second, and bronze for third, will be awarded. The school winning the greatest number of points will gain possession for a year of the two trophy cups offered by graduates and the Boston Athletic Association, respectively...
Since the semi-finals have not as yet been reached, it is impossible to pick the probable winner of the tournament. Volkmann's School leads so far in the contest for the shield to be awarded to the school winning the greatest number of matches, and it will probably carry off the honors. At the close of play on Saturday, the standing of the schools was. Volkmann 14, Newton High 10, Andover 9, Stone's 9, Boston Latin 6, Cambridge Latin 5, Rindge Manual Training 2, Exeter 1, and Dedham High...
Prizes will be given to the winner and the runner-up. The winner will also have the right, as Harvard interscholastic champion, to play for the national interscholastic championship at Newport in August. A championship shield will be presented to the school winning the greatest number of points, each match actually won counting one point...
...time of the Marathon race--the greatest event of the games--which was won Tuesday by William Sherring, Canada, was 2 hours 51 minutes 20 3-5 seconds. Svalberg, Sweden, secured second place in 2 hours 58 minutes 20 seconds. W. G. Frank, I. A. A. C., was third with the time of 3 hours 46 seconds. The distance of the race was 26 miles...
...Olympic games, at Athens, last Wednesday, Lieutenant Hawtrey of England easily won the five-mile race, the greatest event of the day in the very fast time of 26 minutes 11 4-5 seconds. He was more than a lap ahead of Dahl of Sweden, the second...