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...gymnasium competition at Amherst takes place at the Pratt gymnasium on March 26. The following is the programme of events: High kick, standing high jump, rope climbing, club swinging, boxing, pole vault, putting the shot, tumbling, flying and stationary rings, horizontal and parallel bars. There will be no tug-of-war contests as they have been forbidden by Dr. Hitchcock. The class receiving the greatest number of prizes wins the silk banner. The winners in each event will receive silver and bronze medals, and for record breaking gold medals will be given...
...Athletic Meeting.The annual indoor meeting of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Athletic Association will be held at Winslow's rink, Clarendon St., Saturday, March 8 at 2 p. m. It is open to H. A. A. and B. A. A. men in the following events: fence vault, standing high jump, running high running high kick, putting the shot, tug of war (650 lbs.), feather weight sparring (under 127 lbs.), light weight sparring (127-140), middle weight sparring (140-160), heavy weight sparring (160-). Entries close March...
...auspices of the Yale A. A. and 2nd Regiment., C. N. G. will be held in the 2nd Regiment armory, New Haven, Connecticut, Saturday, March 8, 1890, at 8 p. m. The open events to which Harvard is invited to send contestants are: fifty yards dash, running high jump, one mile walk, bayonet race, 440 yards dash, putting the shot, 220 yards hurdle race, one mile run, potato race, tug of-war; all handicaps except the bayonet and potato races and tug-of war. The prizes will be solid gold medals to first and silver to second, except...
Putting the shot in the first winter meeting, and the running high jump in the second, will be handicap events...
...ready to enter then, the events of the last week have been by so means encouraging to those who were hesitating or unwilling. At the meeting of the Boston Athletic association, a Harvard man far surpassed the best records of all other competitors in the running high jump, and showed he could win the same event at the winter meeting with no difficulty at all. To make an interesting competition he ought to be liberally handicapped Other events in which the circumstances are similar are putting the shot and the fence vault. If handicaps were offered they could be extended...