Word: lees
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Manager Lee has arranged match games with Andover and Exeter. No further arrangements have yet been made...
...annual convention of the delegates from the different colleges in the Intercollegiate Athletic Association was held in New York on Saturday, at the Astor House. The following are the delegates of the 13 colleges which were represented: Harvard, E. C. Moen, and J. P. Lee, '91, J. H. Hunt, '92; College of the City of New York, J. J. K. Hackett, Thornton Earle and J. N. Emley; Columbia, J. M. Hewitt, Victor Mapes and E. H. Miller; Yale, H. Cheney, H. L. Williams and W. W. Parker; Amherst, Edwin S. Child, Charles O. Wells; Stevens, C. Smith; Lafayette...
...that $2,000 of the amount be placed with a trust company. This was lost. A motion was then carried that the money be distributed among the colleges, but only those colleges which sent competitors to the games a year ago to receive a share. An amendment by Mr. Lee that the division be on a basis of the number of men entered by the colleges in the games was lost. It was also moved and carried that no college should receive a share until its back dues were paid...
...Lee then moved to drop the tug-of-war from the programme. He read a letter from an old tug-of-war man, setting forth the ill effects of that form of contest. Mr. Hewitt of Columbia defended the tug-of-war, and held that it was no more dangerous than foot ball, rowing and many other sports. The discussion grew quite warm, and at its close the motion was lost...
...motion was then introduced by Mr. Bradford of Princeton that the association accept Carey's alleged record of 9 4-5 sec. for the hundred yards. An animated discussion followed in which J. P. Lee showed that since there were no official timers there the record could not be accepted without breaking the Association's rules. After some testimony from Burr McIntosh of the I. A. A. A. A. to the inefficiency of the men who timed Carey when he claimed to have made his fast time, the motion was voted upon and lost...