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...meeting of the Athletic Association held yesterday afternoon it was voted to add a bantam weight contest to the list of sparring events at the winter meetings. Bell, '91, was also voted a cup for breaking the Harvard record in the hurdle race...
...challenge recently received by the management of the Navy from Dublin University, Ireland, is only upon the condition that a Yale crew is sent to England to contest with the crews of other universities. This challenge, which is not a formal one, will not for that reason be given for publication, but the conditions are as follows: That the race shall be rowed in eight-oared shells as soon after the contest with the Cambridge University crew as possible, and it shall be over the four-mile straightaway course on the Liffey River, near the banks of which Dublin...
During the past year, many new laurels have been won, in almost every branch of record athletics, by members of the various athletic clubs. The colleges have held their own at every contest in which they have been represented, and, although at the Mott Haven meeting last May comparatively few records were broken, the account of the work that was done during the summer, at home and abroad, by college athletes, will have a prominent place in the annals of athletic sports. The leading athletic clubs have divided themselves into two associations, the National Amateur Athletic Association...
...preliminary junior orator contest takes place in the Halls, Clio and Whig, next Wednesday evening. At this contest, four orators are chosen from each Hall to represent the junior class at commencement...
...matter of regret to the members of the bicycle club that Yale refused their challenge to a read race. Such a contest would undoubtedly have proved interesting not only to those who are actively engaged in the sport, but also to the members of the two colleges at large. But in refusing Harvard's challenge, the Yale Bicycle Club acted in perfect good faith. The athletic clubs of different colleges have their ups and downs, and just at the present moment the interest in bicycling at Yale seems to be way down, while on the other hand, the Harvard club...