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...entertainment was closed by the final bout in the light-weight boxing between Mr. Peters and Mr. Brice, which the former won after a hard contest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Meeting of the Boston Athletic Association. | 3/1/1889 | See Source »

...last evening, only one match of the whist tournament was played off. R. D. Brown and H. A. Davis completed their first round by being defeated by H. H. Baker and F. P. Denny. Their score of four games won and one lost, insures them a place in the final round. Victories for R. C. Harrison, and P. J. Harrison over H. H. Baker and F. P. Denny, and also over H. Webster and J. Crane, were reported In section A, Baker and Denny have finished their games with a score of two games won and three lost, and Hale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chess and Whist Club. | 2/28/1889 | See Source »

...handicap of 5 feet, while Hill, '90, gained second prize on a put of 35 feet, 5 inches and a handicap of 4 feet, 6 inches. In the light weight wrestling, Davis, '92, won from Taintor, '91, and in the second bout, Page, '91, threw Todd, '89. The final bout between the winners of the first two bouts, was awarded to Page, '91, Davis having sprained his arm. J. J. Kraft, of the Nonpareil Rowing Club, gave a pretty exhibition of club swinging, which was followed by the spring-board jump, won by McCord, '89; distance, 8 feet, 7 inches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton Athletic Association. | 2/28/1889 | See Source »

...indoor winter meetings this year promise to be much more interesting than those of previous years, owing to the late action of the Athletic Committee by which the first meeting is to be relieved of the preliminary bouts in wrestling, and only the final bouts are to be contested. At a meeting to be held on March 11 the preliminary bouts will be held. Another important innovation made by the committee is the one which opens the third meeting to members of all the colleges of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association and the M. I. of Technology. By these changes much...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Winter Meeting. | 2/23/1889 | See Source »

...weight wrestling (over 160 1bs.), middle-weight wrestling (160 1bs.), light-weight wrestling (140 1bs.), feather-weight wrestling (125 1bs). At the second meeting, March 23, the events are as follows: Feather-weight sparring (125 1bs.), bantam-weight sparring (115 1bs.), flying rings, horizontal bar, broad-sword, fencing, and final tug-of-war. At the third meeting, March 30-Polevault, running high jump, standing high jump, running high kick, rope-climbing, parallel bars, two-handed fence-vault, and tug-of-war limit (600 1bs.), will be contested...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Winter Meeting. | 2/23/1889 | See Source »