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...sixth annual winter meeting of the University of Pennsylvania will be held at the American Academy of Music Broad and Locust Streets, Philadelphia, Saturday evening, February 18,1893. The list of events open to all amateurs, are as as follows: 35 yard dash, scratch; 440 yard dash, handicap-limit 20 yards; 1-2 mile run, handicap-limit 40 yards; 1 mile run, handicap-limit 81 yards; running high jump, handicap-limit 6 inches; 220-yard hurdle race, over 2 flights, 8 ft. 6 in. high handicap-limit, 12 yards; 440 yard dash, open to members of the Inter-Academic...
...fourth indoor open handicap athletic meeting of the Boston Athletic Association will be given on Saturday, February 11, 1893, in Mechanics' Hall, Huntington Avenue, Boston. The special events will be as follows...
...Handicap events: 40 yards dash (9 ft. limit); 600 yards run (30 yards limit); 1 mile run (80 yards limit); 1 mile walk (45 seconds limit); 45 yards hurdle race (9 ft. limit); 3 hurdles, 3 ft. 6 in. each; running high jump (6 in. limit). A special limit will be given to any one breaking the indoor record in any of these events...
...programme for the three days is as follows: - First day, open handicap games; second day, football, lacrosse and lawn tennis; third day, championship games. The events arranged for the latter are as follows: - 100 yard run, one mile walk. 220 yard run, three mile walk, 440 mile run, two mile bicycle race, 880 yard run, pole vault for height, one mile run, running high jump, five mile run, running broad jump, throwing 16-pound hammer, throwing 56-pound weight for distance, putting 16-pound shot, 120 yard hurdle race, ten flights, three feet six inches high; 220 yard hurdle race...
...first members' meeting of the B. A. A. was held in their gymnasium on Tuesday night, and the all round championship was competed for. A new method of competition was instituted, first and second prizes being awarded on a basis of handicap performances, and the championship going to the man winning the greatest number of points on the basis of actual performance. The new method of computing points was used. The amateur record in each event making a standard of 100 points. There were seven competitors and the events were the running high jump, putting the sixteen pound shot...