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...next feature of the programme was the performance on the Horizontal Bar, for which there were seven entries: Bachelder, '83, Dabney, '82, Denniston, '83, Morison, '83, Fay, '83, Bishop, '82, and Ripley, L. S. All of the contestants started off with motions easy at first, but growing more difficult with each succeeding turn. In the second and third turns nearly all the contestants received well-merited applause, and from that time on the applause was nearly continuous. The first exhibition of the "giant swing" was given by Bishop, and was evidently received with more favor than any previous event...
...Running High Kick, the next event, there were five contestants: W. Soren, '83, W. O. Edmands, S. S., S. Coolidge, '83, J. W. Fox, '83, and A. H. Ripley, L. S. The object kicked at was a tambourine, which was suspended, for the first kick, 5 feet 6 inches from the floor. All of the contestants reached it easily at this point, and it was gradually raised until Fox retired at 7 feet 4 inches. He was soon followed by Ripley, who failed to reach it at 7 feet 8 inches. Coolidge retired at 8 feet, and was followed...
Flying Rings - T. C. Bachelder, '83; R. P. Dabney, '82; A. C. Denniston, '83; G. B. Morrison, '83; J. R. Bishop, '82; A. H. Ripley...
...terrible steamboat disaster has occurred on the Ohio River near Ripley Landing, W. Va., by which three lives were lost and a number of persons seriously injured by the bursting of the main steam pipe of the steamer Sidney...
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