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...hopes to make a good showing in all branches. Heretofore the only championship which has been held by Princeton has been that in lacrosse, but this year, owing to the addition of several men valuable in track athletics, the college will be represented by a strong team at the Mott Haven games...
Dohm, '90, champion quarter-mile man of Ireland and America, will be entered at Mott Haven, and besides his regular distance will probably run in the 100-yards dash and in the 220. Janeway, '90, right guard on the foot-ball team, will throw the hammer. Ames, '90, Thompson, '91, and Roddy, '91, will also probably run at the games...
...first night will be devoted to contests by men of the Second Regiment of Yale, while the second night will be open to all amateurs. Last year Harvard sent a number of competitors, and much good resulted from it. Such an opportunity should not be passed by, as the Mott Haven men need such practice as would be afforded them...
...candidates for the Mott Haven team have been divided into squads for the special work they are to take up. The sprinters will be under the charge of Kulp, of the Medical School; the long-distance runners under Hulme,'89; the jumpers and pole-vaulters under Webster, who won the high jump at the intercollegiate games last year; the shot and hammer men under Bowser...
...That this irregularity of attendance exists only to a surprisingly small degree is proved by the investigation of the committee. They found that in 1886-87 the excess of the average number of absences of the men engaged in athletics above the average of their class was-for the Mott Haven team, 1; the crew, nine, and cricket team, 5; the leading tennis players, 7, and the eleven, 8. On the other hand the lacrosse team had a record of six less absences than their class average. The freshmen again fall behind. The nine had an average of eight more...