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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...4/5s. There was such a large list of entries for this race that they were obliged to run eighteen preliminary heats, in which Hubbard, Green, J. G. Clark, V. Munroe, F. B. Fox, J. T. Roche, Jr., F. Mason, G. L. Collins of H. A. A. each won a first. In the semi-finals four of these were left, but Green was the only man that secured a place for Harvard, coming in third...
...have already made reputations for themselves. There is J. T. Roche '99 who won both the sprints in last year's interscholastic meeting and H. H. Fish '99 who won second place in the quarter mile. Then there is E. A. Starbuck '99 the mile runner from Andover, who won second place in this event in the interscholastics two years ago. Two other new men of some note are P. E. Somers who has jumped over twenty-one feet in the Maine interscholastic games and D. Grant, who did such good work in the mile run last fall...
Eleven of last year's prize winners are now in training. They are Captain Bremer, who won the low hurdles in Cambridge and New York; E. Hollister, who won the half mile in both places; W. H. Vincent, who won the quarter mile at New York, and took second place in the half mile and third in the quarter at Cambridge; C. J. Paine, who last year broke the dual league record of 6 ft. 5/8 in. in the high jump, and won third place in New York; A. Stickney, winner of second place in the broad jump in Cambridge...
...athletes under Captain Bremer (and what we say of them will apply equally well to the crew and baseball men) have this year a grave responsibility. Success to them means more than it has meant before. It means not the mere maintenance of a position already won, but the restoration to Harvard of her old-time prominence. All lovers of the college long to see Harvard again in the lead in athletics as in intellectual pursuits. If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well; and for Harvard well must always mean better than any other...
...Barger '98 recently won the junior court tennis championship of the Boston Athletic Association by defeating Mr. W. S. Patten in two straight sets...