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...vault of 6 feet, 7 3-4 inches, breaking the Exeter record by 5 inches. Heywood, '89. won the running high jump, with a record of 5 feet, 4 1-4 inches. Heffelfinger and Shead wsre tied for second place. The club-swinging, which followed next, was fairly contested. For the horizontal bar there were five entries, and this proved one of the most interesting, most skillfully executed events of the day. Hassaurek, '92, won first prize with Hammond, '89, second. Another Exeter record was beaten in the standing high jump, Shead clearing 4 feet, 8 1-4 inches. Heywood...
...Princeton tug-of-war team will contest in an intercollegiate pull to be given March 23rd under the auspices of the Columbia team, at a fair which the juniors of the Columbia School of Mines will hold at that time...
...three players who were tied for first place in the chess tournament finally decided to draw lots as to the best means of settling the contest. The drawing gave F. W. Nichols, '92, first prize; F. M. Brown, '90, second, and S. W. Sturgis, '90, third. The games among these players have been so even that several attempts to play off the tie resulted in one victory and one defeat for each man. So much time has been consumed in these matches the only practicable means of finishing the tournament seemed an appeal to chance...
...next event, the running high jump, proved to be one of the prettiest contests of the meeting. The entries were J. P. Lee, H. A. A., R. G. Leavitt, H. A. A. and P. W. Conant, M. I. T. All the men jumped with case and grace. Conant was the first to withdraw. The contest between Lee and Leavitt promised to be very close but Leavitt slipped. striking his face against the bar with considerable violence, and was forced to withdraw thus leaving Lee the winner with a jump of 5 feet 5 1-2 inches...
...announced that a cup had been offered by Harvard men to be competed for by the different schools belonging to a proposed interscholastic athletic association. One athletic meeting is to be held a year, and the games are to be of the usual nature of the annual intercollegiate contest...