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...three mile straightaway eightoared race between Bowdoin and Cornell will be rowed at Ithaca on June...
...athletic field is to be fitted up at Morris Park on which Mr. John A. Morris will spend more than $100,000. A half-mile cinder track, and a 220 yard straightaway will be constructed on the most approved plans. The infield will be as level as a floor and will be so drained as to be dry at all times. A permanent grand stand to seat 4,500 will be built, and a moveable stand to hold 10,000 or 12,000 more will be constructed in case the colleges should desire to hold football games at the park...
...skating rink next to the open hall of this building will be thrown open so as to make one large room of the whole thing and thus furnish plenty of space for the events to be contested. The place will be large enough for a 75 yard straightaway track, and a mile track in seven laps, just half as many as were required in last Saturday's games. The Amateur Athletic Union held its regular outdoor meeting last fall, and therefore the events which are to be contested in this meeting will very somewhat from the events of last fall...
Cornell recently challenged Yale to a three mile straightaway eight oared race to be rowed at New London in June. Captain Allen answered to the effect that Yale would restrict her aquatic contests to Harvard only. The following is his reply...
July 17, 1873. Same course. Yale, 16.59; Wesleyan, 17.01; Harvard, 17.11; Dartmouth, 17.27 1-2; Amherst, 17.32; Columbia, 17.53 1-4; Bowdoin, 18.07 3-4; Agricultural, 18.19 1-2; Cornell, 18.24; Williams, 19.25 1-2 Following these came two contests on Saratoga lake, at Saratoga, N. Y., on a straightaway course of three miles, with the following results...