Word: poles
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Great preparations are being made for the Exeter-Andover athletic tournament to be held a week from today. Exeter and Andover have both held their annual spring tournament, and judging from the records made the contest will be very close. Andover is ahead in the pole vault and standing broad jump, while Eveter will probably capture most of the dashes. In the tennis tournament to be held in the morning, Harrison will represent Exeter in the singles, and Day, Andover...
Shearman, Yale's representative in the pole vault, broke his pole; and as Leavitt, Harvard's representative, refused to lend his pole, Shearman was obliged to take one so heavy that he could not do his best and lost the event. This act of Leavitt's, the story declares, is the more discourteous because at the games a year ago, when the positions of the two men were reversed, Shearman very kindly lent his pole to Leavitt...
...those who know Leavitt it is not necessary to say that there is not a word of truth in the above. The real facts are these: Shearman had at the games a pole which he had neglected to test beforehand, and when he came to use it he found that it was too heavy. He thought that Leavitt's pole would suit him better, and requested the loan of it. Leavitt is a much lighter man than Shearman, and there was considerable question whether the pole would endure the additional strain; it was therefore perfectly natural that Leavitt should...
Considerable astonishment is felt out here that such a story should have been started. In the first place there could have been no act of discourtesy in Leavitt's refusing to lend his pole. Mr. Lathrop shows published opinions of Ford, Baxter and other New York athletes, doubting the justice of the decision by which Shearman was allowed to use Leavitt's pole. If there was any discourtesy shown it must have been by the one who made so embarrassing a request. Leavitt and Shearman are good friends and all Harvard athletes are surprised that anything ever has been said...
...yards dash, Ellis '90 24 1-4s.; putting the shot, Ford '91, 30ft. 8In.; running broad jump, Heywood '89 19ft. (breaking record); 100 yards three legged race, Ewing and Ellis '90, 12 1-2s; standing broad jump, Bullard '89, 9ft. 10in.; mile run, Grover '90, 5m. 10s.; pole vault, Parrot, '80, 8ft. 6in.; hurdle race, '90, 22s. (breading record); throwing baseball, Lord '89, 315ft. 9in; bicycle (slow race), Stephenson '91. 4m. 41 1-4s.; running high jump, Heywood, '89, 4ft. 6in; bean pot race...