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...TRIALS.There were four teams which actually contested in this event, those of Lafayette, Leigh, Columbia and Harvard. A fifth from St. Johns was ruled out because of an improper belt, and the Pennsylvania team did not turn up. Lafayette made easy work of the Columbias, and the Harvard men had to pull the Leigh team, their old antagonists of a year ago. The result was that at the end our men had pulled fourteen inches away from Lehigh. This left Lafayette and Harvard to contest for the final heat, the last event on the programme...
...HURDLE RACE, 120 YARDS.This was the most unfair contest of the whole afternoon. Ludington of Yale, and Safford of Columbia, and Bradley, '86 were the contestants. The starter gave the word to get ready, and the first two started without waiting for the pistol. Bradley requested that they be set back according to rule, but the starter without heeding him fired his pistol, and Bradley had to follow the other two, by that time already half way to the first hurdle, or get left entirely. He ran so much better than they that he cleared the last hurdle almost...
Harvard will send the following men to Mott Haven to contest the several events: Tug-of-war, 1, Pease, '88; 2, Remington, '87; 3, Curtis, L. S.; anchor, Easton, L. S.; bicycle race, Dean '88; 100 yards dash, Baker, '86, Holden, '88, R. D. Smith, '86; 220 yards dash, same as 100-yards dash; 1-4 mile run, Baker, '86, Fessenden, '87, Holden, '88; 1-2 mile run, Baker, '86, Fessenden, '87; mile run, Brandt, '85, Roberts, '85; Root, '85; mile walk, Bemis, '87; Wright, '86; hurdle race, Bradley, '86, Lund, '88, running high jump, Atkinson, '85, Clark, '87, Fogg...
...Globe and Herald, it should have been placed to the credit of our freshmen, since the faulty decisions of the umpire helped the freshman team from New Haven to add five runs to its score. But though we cannot lay claim to a point gained in the contest for the freshman championship, we can contemplate with satisfaction the steps already taken toward the acquisition of two other, and more important, championships. By the game with Yale we have proved our ability to play a strong and steady game under the strain of intense excitement, and from it we may naturally...
...Smith in the 220-yards. W. J. Bowen in the hammer, G. H. Brewer and M. R. Peck in the broad jump, and E. A. Thompson in the mile run will contest, but they can be debarred from winning prizes by protests made before the events begin, having failed to enter at the right time...