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Cambridge University, Queen's College, February 28. - 100 yards, J. D. Best, 11 sec.; 200-yards handicap, J. D. Best (2 yards start), 23 3/5 sec.; 440 yards, J. Y. Dawbarn, 57 1/5 sec.; 880-yards handicap, J. Parkin, (scratch), 2 min. 14 2/5 sec.; high jump, J. D. Best, 4 ft. 11 1/2 in.; mile-race, J. Parkin, 5 min. 14 4/5 sec.; 120-yards open race, T. A. Wallis (9 yards start...
Great Amateur Regatta. The Watkins Regatta Association will, near the end of May, hold at Watkins Glen, N. Y., a grand regatta, open to all amateurs of America. In addition to the usual races, there will be three special trial-races for fours, pairs, and singles, over a straightaway course of one mile and five-sixteenths, the exact length of the regatta course at Henley, England. The winners of these three trials will, at the expense of the Regatta Committee, be sent to compete at Henley, and other regattas in England, and at the Paris International races...
...captain told me to-day, because Oxford has not challenged her rather than Columbia, whom Harvard beat at Springfield. Columbia seems no crew to represent American colleges, and the graceful thing would be for her to resign. Cornell protests; Harvard does not, and will not." The N. Y. Country says, "Although Columbia has no claim to represent the Champion American College Four, she has as good a right as any so to do." The N. Y. Spirit says, "Columbia's performances at the Centennial are overestimated. The British crews she met there were not the fastest crews in England. Dublin...
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...following telegram was received from New Haven: "Rather than win the game by forfeit, we will meet you half-way and offer the same terms as to Princeton. We will play with thirteen, the other conditions remaining as before." The calm assurance with which the representative of the Y. U. F. B. C. assures us that we shall forfeit the game if we do not play with an eleven is certainly remarkable, when we bear in mind that it was Harvard, not Yale, that sent the challenge, and that fifteen was the number agreed upon by all the colleges...