Word: events
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...hour race, go as you please, open to any amateur who has never, in an open race, beaten 8 min. 30 sec. in a mile walk, or 5 min. 40 sec. in a mile run. No entry will be received unless accompanied with the fee. Entrance-fee, for each event, other than the tugs-of-war, $ 1; tugs-of-war, for each team, $ 5. Entries close March 29, to J. T. Goodwin, Columbia College...
...next event - Indian-club swinging - Messrs. E. D. Brandegee, '81, and J. T. Howe, '80, presented themselves. Mr. Brandegee led off with a fine exhibition of heavy club swinging, and Mr. Howe followed with a marvellously agile performance, using much lighter clubs. In the second round the former executed several extremely difficult motions which tested his strength, and showed off his perfect condition and careful training. Then Mr. Howe gave a second display of a great variety of dexterous tricks, which, however, belonged properly to the province of juggling and sleight-of-hand, rather than to that of club swinging...
...first event, called promptly at 2 P.M., was between Messrs. R. W. Ellis, '79, and H. N. Fowler, '80, in exercise on the horizontal bar. The former excelled at almost every point, his "giant swing" and changing quickly while turning being specially noteworthy. He was awarded...
...next event - two-hand vaulting - proved popular, and five men entered, - Messrs. W. Watson, '81, F. F. Sneathen, L. S., H. N. Fowler, '80, J. L. Paine, '81, and C. H. W. Foster, '81. The vaulting was in "fence" fashion, although the proportion of fence was somewhat meagre. The bar was first placed at 5 feet 3 inches, and raised three inches each time. All the men cleared it easily, until the height reached was 6 feet 3 inches, when Mr. Paine failed to get over. At the next peg Mr. Fowler dropped from the list, and as none...
...last, and most interesting feature of the day, if we judge by the excitement and applause it produced, was the bout between Messrs. Burr and Guiteras. The first round of this event proved to be by far the best display of skill given during the afternoon, and at almost every blow Mr. Burr succeeded in getting the better of his antagonist. But during the second round both men grew rather excited, and then science gave way to frequent locks and heavy battering, in which Mr. Guiteras, apparently the cooler of the two, got in a succession of powerful upper-cuts...