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McNear '91 won the fifty yards dash at the Yale and 7th Regiment games on Saturday. He had a yard handicap and his time was 5 4-5 seconds...
Considering the comparatively small number of Harvard men who entered for the games of the Manhattan Athletic Club at Madison Square Garden last Saturday evening, the winning of two first prizes, one second and one third by Harvard men is more than creditable. It was in the 70-yard handicap run that fortune was especially kind to Harvard. Ninety contestants entered for this race, which was run in fourteen heats; but S. V. R. Thayer, H. A. A. and B. A. A., distinguished himself by winning all his heats and the race. He had a handicap of eight feet...
...difficulty in winning first prize in the pole vault. His distance was 26 feet, 1 1-2 inches, E. B. Bloss, H. A. A., came within 2 1-4 inches of the actual jump of the winner, Barnes. But Goff, the second man, had ten inches more handicap than Bloss, so that Bloss was third with an actual jump of 20 ft.5 3-4 inches...
Most of the entries for the Manhattan Athletic Club games are from the large colleges, and as the handicap limit has been set low, the entries are all of a high grade. Most of the men entered from Harvard are in the 70 yards dash. S. V. R. Thayer has 8 feet handicap, A. H. Green 3 feet, J. Hale, Jr., 6 feet, and O. K. Hawes 5 feet. Roddy of Princeton will be the scratch...
...Athletic Games will be held Saturday evening at 8 o'clock in Madison Square Garden. The large number of entries may, however, necessitate the holding of the preliminary heats in the afternoon. Some of the events are scratch, but in most of them there will be a small limit handicap. The proceeds will go towards paying the expenses of the team which the Manhattan club will send to England this summer. The prizes will be unusually fine, first prizes being diamond rings...