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...championship games of the National Association of Amateur Athletes will take place in New York today. The games will consist of runs at 100 and 220 yards, a quarter, a half, one mile and five miles, one three and seven mile walk, putting the shot, hammer throwing, hurdle race, pole leaping and bicycle races. Brooks of Yale is expected to contest in several of the shorter runs...
...sixteen pound hammer was used in throwing the hammer. The record given on the official programme of 89 feet 5 inches was made with a fifteen pound hammer. Nine men contested, among whom were L. A. Biddle, Harvard; D. B. Porter, Columbia; E. C. Peace, Princeton, and C. H. Kip, Harvard. Porter's throws excelled Kip's until the last throw, but one made by the latter which cleared 88 feet 11 inches. This beats the best college record with the 16 1b. hammer by one foot. Porter was second...
...taking more first prizes in the inter-collegiate meeting than ever before, carrying off seven out of the fourteen prizes. The out-look for next year is good, though we lose three of our best men, Morison, Kip and Soren. New men will be needed particularly in the shot, hammer, pole vault and running broad jump. We look forward, however, to next year confident that Harvard will again make a good fight for the championship cup which she has now won for four successive years...
Peace, '83, has a record of about 77 ft. for the hammer and 33.6 for the shot. Adams, '86, has also thrown the hammer...
Porter, '84, threw the hammer 69 ft. 9 3/4 in. and Briggs, '85, put the shot...