Word: events
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...yards dash (trial heats), open event...
...1/2-mile run, open event...
...rules appeared, a bar such as is requisite for carrying out fully the "Fence Rules" adopted could not be procured until a very late hour; and the vaulters justly refused to enter if such a bar was substituted without giving them time to practise with it. In this same event - the two-hand vault - a dispute arose from the fact that one of the contestants had not practised sufficiently under the new rules to know what constituted...
...system of secret entries is also open to criticism. When the entries were public, if any event did not "fill," those who were interested in making the meeting a success could persuade persons competent to enter to do so before the entries closed, and thus insure an interesting meeting. The failure of the meeting of March 8 was, in part at least, due to the fact that the entries were secret. One, and probably two, of the events which failed to occur would have taken place had the entries been public. The only reason for keeping the entries secret...
...understand that several gentlemen contemplate a journey to New York to participate in the sports of the Columbia Athletic Club. We give them our best wishes for their success. Two events have been added since the programme was published, - a tug-of-war between picked teams from the crew of the steamer City of Chester, of the Inman Line, and a chase by the Columbia College Hare and Hounds Club in full uniform. The four-mile walk (go as you please) promises to be the great event of the occasion. The entries from Columbia have been very large...