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...annual winter meeting at Exeter will be held next Saturday. The following events will be contested: Bar vaulting, putting the shot, standing high jump, club swinging, high kick, horizontal bar, tumbling, parallel bars, running high jump and tug-of-war. First prizes will be given in all events, and where there are four or more entries second prizes will be awarded. There are fourteen entries for putting the shot, eight for the high kick and eight for the running high jump. There is a good number of contestants in the other events also. The principal interest of the meeting will...
...inch. Both cleared this on the third trial. Wason got over 4 ft. 8 in. on the third trial, taking the event. Doherty won putting the shot with a put of 32 ft. 7 in. DeBullet was second at 32 ft. 4 in. The running high kick brought out Wason, M. I. T., and P. J. Finneshan, J. A. Doherty and W. S. Phillips of the Association Gymnasium. Wason reached 8 ft. 10 in., but Phillips overcame his 2 in. handicap by a kick of 9 ft. 14 in. The tug-of-war between the Harvard and Tech freshmen...
Owing to the absence of both Messrs. Lathrop and Lund, '88, at New Haven, it is impossible to give altogether authentic information in regard to the Harvard men that have entered. There are a number of good entries for putting the 16-pound shot. The running high kick will be an interesting event, among the entries being Phillips, who made a record of 9 feet 3 1-2 inches at the Union games last Monday; Wason of Technology, and Lee of Yale. A large number of entries have been received for the fence-vault. The tug-of-war will...
...Yale, did not enter in the high kick, as was expected. W. S. Phillips, C. Y. M. C. A., won this event by a kick of 8 feet 9 inches. In trying to better this he made a record of 9 feet 3 1-2 inches...
...Yale's champion high kicker, has entered the hitch and kick contest. Wason, of Technology, will also enter. The running high jump will have entries from Harvard, Technology and the Union and Association gymnasiums. Wason, of Tech, is said to be able to jump 5 ft. 6 in. Tickets for the games are now on sales at Music Hall. The medals are on exhibition at the corner of Winter and Washington streets, Boston. The probabilities are that the games will be of great interest to college men and amateur athletics generally...