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...Music Hall, on Wednesday evening last, were, on the whole, not so entertaining as their last year's meeting. The programme was too long, and the management inefficient, so that it was after one o'clock when the last contest ended. Messrs. Sayre and Baxter of the N. Y. A. C. (the former also of Columbia College Athletic Association) contested respectively the running high jump and pole vaulting, each securing an easy victory, Sayre clearing 5 feet 3 inches, and Baxter 9 feet. The tugs of war were interesting at first, but there were too many of them...
...mile run 4 m. 29 1/2 s. N. Y. A. C. Games...
...winter meeting of the N. Y. Athletic Club will take place on March 14 and 15 next, and that of the Manhattan Athletic Club on the following day, March 16, - both to be held at the Madison Square Garden, New York. The latter is given for the purpose of raising sufficient money to pay the expenses of Myers in England. Among other attractions, Myers himself will attempt to beat his own 3-4-mile record, in which attempt he will be assisted by several prominent amateurs; as, L. A. Stuart, Voorhees, White, &c., who will run with him in turn...
...Y. Sportsman has failed to make its appearance for the last six weeks or more. We hope that the expense attendant upon its December improvements has not compelled the editors to discontinue it. We shall issue with the Crimson a revised copy of our best-on-record tables which appeared last year. They will be very carefully revised, and all the corrections will be made which this last busy athletic year has rendered necessary...
...rest of this week and next week, Dion Boucicault in his excellent role of Conn, in the "Shaughraun;" extra Matinee on St. Patrick's Day. March 21, "The Colleen Bawn." March 28, "Suil a Mor." Mr. Boucicault is supported by the regular Museum Company. The N. Y. Thalia Company, with Fraulein Geistinger, will play in German at this theatre, April...