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Harvard defeated Yale in the dual track games on Soldiers Field Saturday afternoon by the score of 62 1-2 points to 41 1-2. The meet throughout was very interesting. Yale started with a rush, winning four of the first five events, but in the next four Harvard made 29 points out of a possible 32. After this the games were no longer in doubt. Harvard scored in every event, while Yale failed to take a point in either of the jumps or the two-mile run. On the track Harvard scored 36 points to Yale...
...record was broken. Boal threw the hammer 144 feet 2 1-2 inches, bettering Chadwick's distance by 13 feet 3 inches. Hallowell equalled the record in the high hurdles, as did Richards in the short dash. Richardson in the two-mile, a new event for the dual games, set a good record by winning the race in 9 minutes 57 3-5 seconds...
...cups for each race and the newly recovered Royal Phelps Carroll Cup will be offered for single scullers. The conditions on which this cup is offered are. "It shall be a perpetual challenge cup to be held one year, and open to all members of the University. In the event of the holders' leaving College, the cup returns to the Boat Club...
...Stillman's consistent work in the hammer-throw should give Yale the five points in this event. Boal of Harvard, however, will push him for the place, with Brown, Harvard, or Clark, Yale, third...
...high jump too promises to be a strong event for Harvard with Rice and Rotch close for first place. Taintor or Duval, Yale, however, may out-jump Ellis, Glidden, Ware and Derby for the one point...