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Those present at the meeting were Peter Vredenburg, Princeton; J. S. Cook, Harvard; W. H. Wright, Jr, Yale; J. W. Hutchinson, College of the City of New York, and Thornton Earle, University of New York...
Putting the shot. - Won by Wheeler '95, of the foot ball team, with a handicap of 3 ft. 6 in., on an actual put of 32 ft. 7 1-2 in.; second, Vredenburg '92, with 2 feet, on an actual...
Rope climbing. - Won by Vredenburg '92, time 13 2-5 secs.; second, McLanihan '92, time 15 4 5 secs...
Harvard got only one place in the two sprints last year. This year again it seems likely that Princeton's representatives, Vredenburg and Swain, who won 14 points last year will carry off the honors in the 100 and 220 yards dashes. Last year in the middle distances, where Harvard was supposed to be strong, she got only a second place. She will enter as usual some strong men this year, but they will have against them last year's champions; for Wright of Yale, who won the half-mile in 1.59 1-5, and Shattuck of Amherst, who took...
...speaking of the advisability of entering a tug-of-war team, Capt. Vredenburg is quoted as saying that Princeton will support Harvard and Yale in making every effort to do away with this sport, but he doubts whether they could carry their point, owing to the opposition of the smaller colleges. He also said that an effort would be made to strike the bicycle races from the list of events, and that, in spite of Harvard's antagonism, there is some chance that the scheme may prove successful. Some of the most promising candidates are given below...