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...representatives. However, two men, Stead, '91, and Lee, '91, went down on their own account, but failed to win. Yale sent quite a number of entries, but all failed to win excepting Shearman, who won the high jump at 5 ft. 9 in. with 1 in. handicap. Only one record was broken. George R. Gray, N. Y. A. C., threw the 24b.- shot 33 ft., 3 in., breaking the record by 8 inches. The lacrosse game between the Staten Island Athletic Club and Rutgers College consisted of two halves of fifteen minutes, and resulted in favor of the Athletic Club...
Andover has seldom had a better football team than this year's. Its record was an exceptional one, as the eleven was defeated but twice: once by Harvard and once by Tech. Of the eleven men on the team, seven will enter college next fall. Of these Upton and Hunt will enter Harvard, Coxe, Bliss and Owsley enter Yale, and Mowry and Speer enter Princeton...
Best general references: Nation, XXX, 90; Message of President Hayes, March 8, 1880, in Cong. Record 10, 1399; Wharton's Digest...
...Such a canal should be controlled by the United States.- Ibid; Nation, XXX, 90; Rodrigue's The Panama Canal, c. 2; President Hayes' Message, March 8, 1880, in Cong. Record...
...Lincoln College (Oxford University, England) sports, the strangers' handicap at a quarter of a mile was won from scratch by Mr. F. J. K. Cross in 49 2-5 s., the quickest time on record for an Englishman at the distance. The honor of having eclipsed all others at a quarter of a mile belongs to Wendell Baker, formerly of Harvard, whose record of 47 3-4s. made at Beacon Park, Allston, in 1886, remains unbroken...