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...Stadium. This afternoon at 2.30 o'clock the preliminary elimination heats and trials will begin for all events except the mile and two-mile runs, leaving only the semi-final and final heats to be run off tomorrow. Owing to the exceptionally large number of entries and the remarkably high standard of the competitors in many of the events, the preliminaries this afternoon give promise of some excellent performances...
...Running high jump, trials...
...high hurdles will apparently go to Yale as Howe has shown himself to be in wonderful form this season. Rand will have to be at his very best to beat Dwight of Princeton and Talcott of Cornell for second. The points will probably be divided among these four, unless Robbins, of Yale has improved remarkably. In the low hurdles Gardner has an excellent chance of reversing the results of two weeks ago by winning from Howe. It is not at all unlikely that the former will win. For third and fourth places the most prominent competitors are Rand of Harvard...
...large number of men of about equal ability will compete in the high jump. If anyone wins the event outright, it will probably be Palmer of Dartmouth. A complicated tie for the other points is likely to result between Harwood, Pope and Lawrence of Harvard, Canfield and Reiley of Yale, Rossman of Cornell, Horrax of Williams, and Lane of Pennsylvania...
Field-judges--Broad jump: E. T. Hart, Boston; J. T. Mahoney, New York A. C. High jump: H. H. Baxter, New York A. C.; G. B. Billings, B. A. a. Pole-vault: F. J. V. Delaney, Xavier A. A.; J. F. Facey, Cambridge. Hammer-throw and shot-put: J. s. Mitchell, New York A. C.; F. McGrath, Boston...