Word: weight
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...KESSLER, '78, who won in 1876 the prize for middle-weight wrestling, and in 1877 the prize for heavy-weight wrestling, will not enter any of the contests at the Gymnasium this year. The entries for wrestling have, thus far, been very few, and more names are needed to make this interesting feature of the meeting a success...
...Sunday Herald gives an account of a wonderful light-weight six-oar of the Dauntless Boat-Club of New York. Their record shows what training and good management will do. The heaviest man in this crew is 145 pounds in weight, while the stroke and bow each weigh 115, and the average weight of the crew is only 131. Last year they defeated, among others, the Neptune Six, composed of such men as Kennedy of Yale, King of Cornell, Riley the sculler, Johnson, Keator, and Shand, - a crew which in weight, age, and reputation far surpassed them. The record...
...Vaulting with one hand. 2. Light-weight sparring. 3. Light-weight wrestling. 4. Indian-club swinging. 5. Middle-weight wrestling...
...Horizontal bar. 2. Fencing. 3. Vaulting with two hands. 4. Heavy-weight sparring. 5. Unfinished bouts; sparring and wrestling of previous meeting...
...Standing high jump. 2. Heavy-weight wrestling. 3. Middle-weight sparring. 4. Unfinished bouts : sparring, wrestling, and fencing of previous meeting...