Word: potatoe
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...indoor meeting of the Roxbury Latin School athletic association will be held next Friday afternoon in the Technology gymnasium. Four of the events will be open: the high jump, the pole vault, the potato race and the twenty yards dash. The H. A. A. tumbling squad will give an exhibition...
Eight events in all were contested and one New England record was broken, that of the potato race which E. H. Clark '96, won in 34 seconds. W. E. Putnam, Jr., '96, in the springboard leap, equalled the Harvard record of 8 ft. 6 in. W. W. Hoyt '98 made 10 ft. 4 1/2 in. in the pole vault and tried to break his record made at Worcester, but failed. Captain Wheelwright of last year's Mott Haven team was a contestant in this event...
...spikes will be allowed in any of the events. The order will be as follows: Putting the shot, parallel bars, high jump, potato race, tumbling, 10 yards dash, spring-board leap, pole vault...
...Potato race - F. Mason '96, E. H. Clark '96, A. L. Jackson '95, J. R. Crocker '98, E. Alden '97, L. F. Smith '96, F. L. Hardenbrook '98, S. K. Fenollosa '95, A. R. Wendell '96, W. R. Mansfield '97, N. B. Marshall '97, A. C. Johnson '95, P. R. Dean '96, G. L. Collins...
...Newton High School Athletic Association holds its winter meeting next week Friday at 7.30 p.m. in the Drill Hall at Newtonville. There will be four open events, the 30 yds. dash, half mile walk, potato race, 600 yds. run. The Harvard entries in the various events are: 30 yds. dash, M. G. Gonterman '96, B. C. Jutten, Gr., C. L. Smith, Jr., '97, W. R. Mansfield '97, W. A. Holt Sp., C. H. Warren '97, E. H. Clark '96; 600 yds. run, G. L. Sawyer L. S. S., J. E. Bunting L. S. S., W. H. Vincent '97; half mile...