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...Columbia freshmen have issued the following challenge to the Harvard freshmen. "The freshman class of Columbia College hereby challenges the freshman class of Harvard College to an eight-oared shell race with coxswains, two miles straightaway, to take place at New London. Time and minor details to be arranged hereafter...
...think that Yale still maintains the same attitude. Harvard withdrew from the association, because she thought that a fair race could not be rowed under its supervision and did not wish again to endanger her chances by a foul. Harvard then agreed to row Yale at New London a straightaway race in eights; and later, to row with Columbia under the same conditions. Now, if the two races are merged into one, another intercollegiate association will be formed, and immediately the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell, and other colleges, will demand admittance. It is only last year that the Univ...
...offered to the various crews free transportation to and board at the place, provided the regatta should be rowed on Saratoga take on July 4. This offer was accepted. It was further decided that the championship race should be a fouroared oared shell race, one mile and a half straightaway. A single shell race was determined upon, and the committee was empowered to decide whether there should be any other races. The committee was authorized to admit any college crew to the race on thirty days' notice before the event, such an entry being regarded as equivalent to that college...
...baseball field, 10; roads and cottage sites, 2.25. Total area, 29 acres. Distance from home plate to nearest obstruction on principal ball field, 420ft.; same, second field, 350ft. Cricket field, 400ft. square. Grade of ball field, 3 1-4 in. to 100ft. Length of driveway, 4,000ft. Length straightaway on running track, 372.5ft.; radius inside curve, 90ft.; width of homestretch, 20ft.; width of rest of track, 15ft.; depth of material, 15in., in six layers, and beaded inside and outside with tarred spruce and hemlock 6in.x1in. Length of fencing, 2,762ft.; length of water pipe, 1,580ft.; line of field...
...class races at Yale Wednesday were won by the freshmen. Time 12 min. 35 sec.-straightaway course of two miles...