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...fall, and they should begin to train for them now. In several of the events it is impossible to get new men into good condition in the short spring season. This is especially true of hurdle racing, shot-putting and hammer-throwing. In the Freshman and fall handicap games the Freshman has the best opportunity of showing what he can do. If he starts training now and shows ability in these games, he will find it much easier to make the team in the spring than he will if he puts off training until later in the year...
...Boston Athletic Association will hold open handicap games on June 17 on Irvington Oval. The handicap events will be: 100 yards dash, 600 yards run, 120 yards hurdles, and running broad jump. There will also be a novice 100 yards dash...
...There were entries from Harvard, Columbia, Princeton, Stevens Institute, Columbian University, Tufts and Colby. Those that were to have entered from Pennsylvania did not appear. Harvard had a large number of entries, but won only second and third place in the tandem, and third place in the two-mile handicap. Columbia with five entries easily outclassed the other competitors, winning the silk banner offered by the association, with sixteen points. She also got second in the two-mile handicap, which did not count toward the banner...
...mile handicap-Won by Schrade, Columbian University; second, George E. Ruppert, Columbia; third, A. E. Dacy, Harvard; fourth, M. Pratt, Colby. Time...
...best races were the two mile handicap and the final heat of the one mile open. The two trial heats of the mile were processions. In the final heat, however, Brinckerhoff went ahead of the starters to set the pace for two laps, and an interesting race was the result. Fearing was ahead, with Schrader second, until he ran off the track and had to withdraw. By the third and last lap, Dawson had come up to the front and, with a spurt at the finish, he passed Schrader, who had just ridden in the trial heat. The finish...