Word: mott
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meet with the approval of all interested in intercollegiate athletics. The attempt to arrange a road race with Yale proved unsuccessful, but we see no reason why the plan now proposed should not be heartily entered into. Intercollegiate bicycling has heretofore been confined to the two-mile race at Mott Haven, and so has held a comparatively unimportant place. Bicycling as a sport deserves a much more prominent place in college athletics because of the skill it requires and the number of men interested in it. The plan proposed will go far towards raising its standing. The Bicycle Club deserves...
...candidates for the Mott Haven team will begin work about March 1 on the grounds of the Manhattan Athletic Club. Many of them are already in training on their own account, and expect to enter the games of the N. A. A. A. A., March 2; Yale games in the middle of March, and the Harvard games, March 30. Columbia has great hopes of winning the cup this year. The events which they expect to take and the men they are depending upon are the tug-of-war team; H. Mapes, '92, in one if not both hurdles; Banks...
...only handicap event of the meeting, the shot contest, was in some respects the most important of the afternoon, on account of its bearing on the Mott Haven games next spring. Jane-way put the shot 38 feet, 8 inches, which entitles him to be looked upon as a candidate for honors in New York next spring, but owing to the more than liberal handicaps, Brownlee, '89, took first place with a throw of 35 feet, 2 inches, and a handicap of 5 feet, while Hill, '90, gained second prize on a put of 35 feet, 5 inches...
...previous years, has been so characteristic of the wrestling, will be avoided, and, if the colleges which are at liberty to compete in the third meeting send delegates, not only will greater interest be added to the events of that meeting, but the men who are to contest at Mott Haven will gain by the additional competition...
...long-distance men training for the Yale Mott Haven team now run about five miles in the Armory every afternoon, besides taking a short outside...