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...next event on the programme (the one-mile walk) there was only one entry (Mr. G. W. Green, '76), and consequently there was no race, the rules of the Association requiring two contestants in order that there shall be a race. The running high-jump was, therefore, called instead, and Messrs. E. C. Hall, '76, and H. G. Danforth, '77, appeared in answer to the sound of the bell. The cup was won by Mr. Hall, who jumped 4 ft. 10 in., which was three inches less than the jump of last fall...
...next event was the hundred-yards dash, for which there were five entries, and which was run in three heats. In the first, Messrs. A. L. Rives, L. S., S. G. Ward, '76, and C. B. Chandler, L. S., started, Chandler coming in first in 11 3/4 sec. The second heat, between Messrs. A. H. Latham, '77, and H. C. Dunham, '77, was won by Latham in 11 sec. The final heat, between Latham and Chandler, was postponed until after the next event, which was the half-mile run. The contestants were Messrs. F. Cunningham, L. S., and J. Swift...
...weeks from to-day the Yale-Harvard race will be rowed at Springfield; an event which must attract, besides the friends of the two colleges, many spectators, because it is many a year since an eight-oared race has been rowed in this country. Who will be the victors we cannot say until the crews get upon the course. From the newspaper accounts of the "crews and their prospects," nothing can be learned. The men who write them are generally more ignorant than a tyro about boating, and their sources of information are very indirect...
...Originally the so-called International Collegiate Boat-Race was to have been rowed by six-oared crews at Saratoga, on July 19. But in deference to the wishes of Cambridge he [Mr. Rees] says the crews shall be altered to four-oared ones, and that the event shall come off any day up to the 15th of August, which would enable the English crews going to take part in the Henley Regatta before starting, and also at the Philadelphia International Regatta (fixed for the end of August), before leaving...
...There can be no doubt that both Oxford and Cambridge would be able to get up two good crews, if they liked, and would stand the greatest possible chance of being first and second respectively, in an event the like of which has never been seen, and is not likely to be seen again...