Word: jumping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...running high jump Saturday, Mr. H. L. Clark will try to beat the gymnasium record of 5 ft. 9 in. made by him last Saturday...
...High jump, pole vault, high kick, putting shot, walk...
Clark's record of five feet nine inches in the running high jump is the best ever made in the Hemenway gymnasium...
RUNNING HIGH JUMP.A few minutes past two o'clock the contestants in the running high jump appeared. The bar was placed at four feet six inches. It was quickly raised from this height, however, until Henry failed at 5 feet, Batchelder having previously withdrawn. Buckingham fell out at five feet one inch. Clark, Bradley and Rogers now did some good and graceful jumping. Rogers jumped five feet three and a half inches, but failed to clear half an inch more. Bradley jumped five feet four and seven-tenths inches. Clark then attempted to make up the five inches handicap. Last...
...President Smith. He announced the contestants who had aided in winning the victory at the Polo Grounds as follows: First prizes, the tug-of-war team, - Easton, Curtis, Remington and Pease; Wendell Baker in the 2.20 yard dash and quarter-mile run; Bradley in the running broad jump. Second prizes were won by D. C. Clark, in putting the shot, Gibson in throwing the hammer, Dean in the bicycle race, Fogg in the running broad jump, and Bemis in the mile walk. The cup was first awarded by the Inter-collegiate Athletic Association in 1876, when Princeton was the victor...