Word: won
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...crew on the water; the second, the crew waiting for supper in the little lounging cabin before Captain Molthrop's house; and the third, the Yale-Columbia-Harvard race, taken just before Yale sank. The credit for this charming souvenir of a battle well fought and gloriously won, is due to Mr. E. C. Pfeiffer, '89, a "Port Oar," as he modestly terms himself. We desire to make our acknowledgments to him for the complimentary copy sent to us, which we have read through with much pleasure...
...first bout of the light-weight, Austin, '87, against Hillebrand, '87, resulted in a victory for the former, who thereby won the light-weight cup. The sparring was hard and marked by much clinching. The three rounds were so close that a fourth had to be fought to decide the contest...
Ashe and Shockley fought the three prettiest and most scientific rounds of the day, in the first bout of the middle-weight. Ashe-won the contest...
...Ashe won the middle-weight cup by beating Curtis in the final bout. The sparring of both was good, there being apparently but little choice between them...
Saturday night the last of the Yale winter meetings for 1887 was held. The tug-of-war was won by the seniors. The running high jump was contested by eight men, and was won with a jump of 5 feet 6 3-4 inches by T. G. Shearman, '89. Page of Pennsylvania is considered good for 5 feet 10 1-2 inches at any time. The next event, which is of interest to Harvard men, was the pole-vault, which was won also by T. G. Shearman. He broke the Yale record with a vault of 10 feet...