Word: jumped
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...large crowd, including many ladies, spent yesterday afternoon in the Technology Gymnasium on Exeter St. watching the annual meeting of the Roxbury Latin School. There were eight events and Harvard had a representative in four of these, the running high jump, two twenty yards dashes and the pole vault...
Fearing was the only Harvard man in the running high jump, and as Green failed to put in appearance. He had little difficulty in clearing the bar at 6.00 7-8 and thus won the event from Dunning R. L. S., who had a handicap of eight inches. Fearing then had the bar put at 6.02 7-8, which was 5-8 higher than the indoor record. He had cleared this on his third trial when his arm unfortunately struck the stick and brought it to the floor. The attempt showed that the record would not remain long unbroken...
...meeting lasted about three hours and comprised, in addition to these events, rope climbing, running high kick, standing high jump and trial heats of the dash. In addition to the Harvard men there were representatives from the B. A. A., Technology and one or two local schools. R. S. Hale '91, and G. L. Batchelder '92, were judges, while Mr. Lathrop timed the events...
...quarter and half mile runs, and between Woodbridge, Turner and himself, Princeton ought to win some places. Borcherling who took third in the mile walk, and Jefferson, who won second in the hammer are back. Ramsdell, who holds the championship for the Eastern United States in the broad jump is a member of the freshman class and will compete in the games. In the high jump, pole vault, bicycle and hurdles, however, Princeton will be but poorly represented...
Running high jump-G. R. Fearing, Jr., scratch; A. Elson, 8 in.; J. A. Blossom, 8 in.; M. S. Dunning, 8 in.; A. H. Green, 2 in.; J. E. Morse, 2 in.; N. F. Doherty, 4 1-2 in.; W. G. Irwin...