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Second meeting (ladies' day), Saturday, March 28-semi-finals and finals in fencing and broadswords; invitation running high jump; ten yards dash; feather and bantam weight sparring; horizontal bar. The preliminaries of the fencing and broadswords will be decided similarly to those in wrestling. The wrestlers and sparrers will be classified by weight, as usual. Heavy weights are over 160 1bs., middle weights are under 160, light weights under 140, feather weights under 125, and bantam weights under 115. A committee has been appointed to send invitations for the high jump to the best jumpers in the east...
...usual joint winter games of the Yale Athletic Association and Second Regiment C. N. G. The time selected is the evening of Saturday, March 21. The events chosen are slightly different from those of last year and are as follows: 50 yard dash, one mile walk, running high jump, 440 yards dash, putting the shot, 220 yards hurdle race, one mile run. These are all handicaps, while the scratch events are bayonet race, potato race, obstacle race, tug of war and horizontal bar and fencing contests...
...event of the evening was the high jump. G. R. Fearing '93 broke the world's indoor record three times, first 6 feet 1 inch, then 6 feet 2 inches, then 6 feet 2 1-4 inches. His jumping was beautifully easy and he does not by any means seem to have done the best he will ever be able to. A. H. Green '92 also did very well, beating his own record by several inches by jumping 5 feet 11 7-8 inches. Fearing had already won his heat in the 75 yards dash...
...Roxbury Latin School Athletic Association will hold its annual winter meeting in Boston, Saturday, February 21. The events open to Harvard men are 20 yards dash, putting the shot, pole vault, and running high jump. Entries should be sent today to T. R. Kimball, Perkins St., Jamacia Plain. Entries must close today, so that they may be sent to Carter, the handicapper...
Running high jump-G. R. Fearing, scratch; A. H. Green, 1 inch...