Word: tug-of-war
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DEAR SIRS:- I wish to call attention through your columns to the negligence of the H. A. A. in not giving medals for the tug-of-war teams in the last winter meeting. At the non-appearance of the Yale team three members of the '93 team and Mr. Wright, '92, volunteered to pull against the 'varsity to make an event...
Columbia pulled Pennsylvania 8 in. in the first trial of the tug-of-war; Yale beat Swarthmore by 1 1-2 in., with Princeton bye. In the second trial Columbia beat Princeton by 3 1-2 in., and Columbia beat Yale by 7 in. In the pull for second place Yale defeated Princeton by 5 1-2 inches, and Princeton forfeited third place to Swarthmore...
...report, which said that he was not training. Davis ought to win the bicycle from Clark of Yale, but it will be a very close race. Welsh of Columbia is generally expected to win the pole vault, with Crane and Ryder of Yale working for second place. The tug-of-war should go to Columbia, Yale being second and Princeton third...
...Dohm of Princeton won the running broad jump, 21 feet 8 in. Running high jump, scratch, won by G. R. Fearing, Harvard, 5 ft. 8 1-2 in. Half mile run, handicap, won by W. H. Wright, Harvard (25 yards), time 1m. 56 sec. In the tug-of-war, Columbia beat Berkeley by three inches...
...events are the same as the Mott Haven events, with the exception of the one-mile run, the low hurdles, and the tug-of-war; the bicycle race is one mile, and the hammer only twelve pounds in weight. Throwing the base ball is also an event. Since 1886 the year in which the Association was founded, Hopkinson's has won once, Roxbury Latin twice, and Worcester won last year. This year the contest will be close, with the chances slightly in favor of Roxbury Latin. The association was organized in 1889 by graduates of the various schools, chiefly Harvard...