Word: lighting
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Kimball started off, followed by Morison, Bachelder and Denniston, in a little light exercise to limber themselves up. Denniston and Bachelder executed a very pretty double feat, which was received with deserved applause. A feature of Bachelder's movements was his walking the length of the bars upon his hands...
...LIGHT-WEIGHT WRESTLING.W. H. Page, '83 (blue); O. Bangs, S. S. (black), and H. Lilienthal, '83, were the entries in this event. Their weights were as follows: Page, 139 7/8 lbs.; Bangs, 138 3/4 lbs.; Lilienthal, 133 lbs. Lilienthal had drawn the bye, and the first bout was between Page, the winner of the event last year, and Bangs. Page was the shorter of the two, and looked much stronger than his antagonist, who, however, made up in agility and skill what he lacked in this respect. Page was somewhat handicapped by his exertions in sparring, while Bangs was entirely...
...LIGHT-WEIGHT WRESTLING.The final bout was contested by Bangs, winner of the first bout, and Lilienthal, who weighed 133 lbs., about 5 lbs. less than Bangs...
Despite the bad weather the audience at the gymnasium on Saturday was large and the meeting was attended with the usual success. The middle-weight sparring was an improvement on that of last year. The light-weight wrestling was particularly good and the wrestling as a whole compared favorably with that of last year. Mr. Bangs, who was awarded the prize for general excellence in wrestling, showed great skill and agility. The meeting as a whole reflects great credit on the officers of the association...
...other events were: vaulting, in which the record made was 6 ft. 7 in.; horizontal bar; standing high jump, won by Brooks, '85, 4 ft. 7 1/4 in.; rope climbing; high kick, 8 ft. 5 in.; running high jump, also won by Brooks, 5 ft. 1/2 in.; fencing; light-weight sparring; closing with an exhibition of sparring between W. C. Camp and H. Knapp...