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...annual Spring Meeting of the Harvard Athletic Association takes place tomorrow afternoon on Holmes field at 3 o'clock. The number of entries is unusually large, and the events will be exciting and closely contested. In the 220 yard events the new straightaway track will be used for the first time, so that the time in these events is likely to be slightly faster than usual...
Although no formal letter of acceptance has been received, it is understood that the Columbia freshmen have accepted Harvard's challenge for a two-mile straightaway race to be rowed some time in June. The challenge was sent to Columbia some time ago, but they have delayed taking formal action on the matter. Last week Captain Metcalfe, of the Columbia 'varsity, wrote Captain Perkins that the 'varsity managers had strongly recommended the freshmen to accept the challenge. Saturday, dispatches from Columbia in the morning papers announced that Columbia '94 had accepted the challenge. No further arrangements can be made until...
...South Armory, where the Boston Athletic Association is to hold its meeting on Saturday night, is admirably fitted for athletic games. The floor is about one hundred and ten yards long and is without a post, the roof being supported entirely by trusses. There is room enough for the straightaway seventy-five yards, without making the stop incoveniently sudden. The track for the longer runs is one-ninth of a mile in circumference. It now consists merely of the section of flooring which is marked off at either end by a curved strip of black paint, but planking will...
...Armory in question is especially well adapted for track events, there being a straightaway 75 yards course, and the regular track itself, 9 laps to the mile. The price of admission for spectators will be 50 cents, and for contestants special tickets will be provided free of cost. There will probably be a special dressing room for Harvard...
...will be given by the Boston Athletic Association on Saturday, October 4, at 2.30 p. m., will be a Twenty-five Mile Handicap Race, with a limit of ten minutes and is open to all amateurs. The course will be over macadamized roads for twelve and one half miles straightaway, and return by same route, which makes it impossible for strangers to lose their course. The prizes will be ten in number, besides a gold record medal which will be given to the first competitor who breaks the Twenty-five Mile Road Record...