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Princeton is said to have fifty-one candidates in training. Adams, '88, who has thrown the hammer 90 feet in practice, and Toler, '86, the inter-collegiate champion in the pole vault are the most prominent...
...Mitchell, the Scientific School experts at the mile walk and half mile run, respectively, have graduated from college, and ponderous A. B. Coxe, of the junior class is the only probable "first" man left to hold up Yale's end. That Mr. Coxe will do this in the hammer-throwing is pretty generally acknowledged, and there are many who assert that he will throw the hammer several feet beyond the best on record. He is doing some pretty fair work in his practice at putting the 16-pound shot, and it would not be surprising if his competitors in this...
...Polo Grounds as follows: First prizes, the tug-of-war team, - Easton, Curtis, Remington and Pease; Wendell Baker in the 2.20 yard dash and quarter-mile run; Bradley in the running broad jump. Second prizes were won by D. C. Clark, in putting the shot, Gibson in throwing the hammer, Dean in the bicycle race, Fogg in the running broad jump, and Bemis in the mile walk. The cup was first awarded by the Inter-collegiate Athletic Association in 1876, when Princeton was the victor. For the next three years Columbia held it, but in 1880 it came to Harvard...
...candidates for putting the shot and throwing the hammer are now at work out of doors...
Columbia has candidates in training for every event in the Inter-Collegiate games except throwing the hammer and putting the shot...