Word: jumping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...trial heats in the Yale athletic games took place yesterday at the gymnasium : '83 pulled '85, and '84 pulled '82 in the tugs-of-war. The high jump was won by Worcester, '85, who scored 4 ft. 5 1/2 inches. Phelps, '84, Bowman, '83, Woodward, '83, Fosdick, '83, and Beckwith, '85, won heats at boxing. C. Smith, '83, Cummins, '82, Lambert, '84, and Bigelow, '85, won at wrestling, and W. Smith, '83, and Rice, '82, won at fencing. The final heats will occur Saturday...
Denniston and Morison, '83, are practising for the running and standing high jump for the winter meeting...
...mile run for those who have never won a prize has been added to the list of contests at the Union Athletic Club games. Following is a corrected programme: Pole leaping; running high jump; one-mile run, scratch; one-mile run; seventy-five yard run, scratch, for those who have never taken a prize; bicycle slow race; one-mile bicycle race; two-mile bicycle race; bicycle club drill, by Crescent Club of Boston, twelve men; tugs of war, two classes, viz: military, teams of four men, any weight, boat club and athletic club teams of four men, 600 pounds; polo...
...Amherst College Games, on October 19, E. M. Greene cleared 4 ft. 9 in. at the standing high jump...
...Columbia College Athletic Club Meeting, on November 1, at Mott Haven, the performances worthy of note were Jenkins's 54 1-5 sec. for the 1/4-mile run; and his performance also in the broad jump, of 19 ft. 11 in. (He has a record of 21 ft. 1/4 in. for this event, made at Mott Haven, on September 24, at the Championship Games; but as it was made in open sports it cannot go into the college table.) Also S. Derickson's ('85) 24 1-5 sec. for the 220-yards; and D. B. Porter's ('83) throw...