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...exercises, as a large proportion of the contestants are amateurs and the object is a deserving one. The programme is as follows: Heavy dumbbells; picking up heavy weights; putting the shot; three-legged race; one-mile walk; pulling up, one and two arms; half-mile run; hitch-and-kick; sack-race; horizontal bar; foil and broadsword fencing; tumbling; rowing eight oars; single and double somersaults; hurdle-racing; potato-race; tug of war; three-mile walk; standing and running high jump, etc. Further particulars can be obtained from General Lister, who has been requested to act as referee...
...Williams athletic sports occurred October 14. The times were as follows: Quarter-mile run, 58 1/4 s.; half-mile run, 2 m. 24 1/4 s.; one-mile walk, 8 m. 39 1/2 s.; 100-yard dash, 11 1/4 s.; sack-race, 50 yards, 13 1/2 s.; mile run, 6m. 18 3/4 s. The base-ball throw was 323 ft.; the running high jump, 4 ft. 11 in.; running long jump...