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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...York Athletic games on Saturday, M. Prinstein of Syracuse University jumped 23 ft. 8 7-8 in., breaking the former world's record of 23 ft. 7 1-2 in. In the same games John Flanagan, N. Y. A. A., threw the sixteen-pound hammer 158 ft. 4 in., breaking the world's record of 153 ft. 8 in., held by McCracken of Pennsylvania...
Last Friday, C. H. Taylor 1900, captain of the Rifle and Pistol Club, made the following consecutive 10 shot scores in an attempt to surpass the American 50 shot pistol record: 97, 94, 95, 94, 92, 472 total. This score beats the best previous amateur performance by 4 points and the professional or world's record by 2 points. The shooting was done in the presence of witnesses...
This afternoon at 3 o'clock on Soldiers Field the 'Varsity will play its first game in the series with Brown, a series which in view of Brown's good record should prove very interesting. Brown has met many of the strongest college nines, and though beaten several times, succeeded in winning the Yale series and in defeating Amherst, Dartmouth, Holy Cross and Princeton...
...Memorial Day games of the N. Y. A. C., J. C. McCracken, of U. of P., threw the hammer 153 ft. 8 in., breaking the world's record by one inch...
...Fetterman, of the University of Pennsylvania, holder of the intercollegiate record in the mile walk, will compete in the English championship games on July...