Word: high
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...full line of low and high shoes, black, tan and patent, prices $3.50 to $8.00, at Newman...
...track games of the U. of P., held on Saturday, several records were broken and all the performances were of a high grade af excellence. Tewkesbury did 10 seconds for the 100 yards dash from scratch. Fetterman won the mile walk in the very fast time of 6m. 43s. In the running broad jump, W. P. Remington bettered his record of last week by an inch, jumping 23 ft. 5 1-2. This is within an inch of the world's record for that event. McCracken put the shot 43 ft. 1 in. and threw the hammer...
...best all round work was done by Kraenzlein who won three events. In the high hurdles he did 16 4-5s. from 8 yds. back of scratch. He won the 220 yards hurdles in 25s. and jumped 23 ft. 4 1-2 in. in the broad jump, winning the event by his handicap...
...High Jump...
Until the starting of the broad jump and high jump, the last events, Yale was in the lead by seven points. In the broad jump Nickerson and Clarke easily outclassed the Yale jumpers; Nickerson, on his last jump, made 22 ft. 10 in., which breaks the record. Taintor, Yale's high jumper, dropped out at 5 ft. 8 in., leaving but Rice, Ellis and Morse still jumping...