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Dates: during 1870-1879
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SCOUT. I'm mighty sorry that I did n't make your fire; but I tumbled down the steps of Grays and broke three ribs, and could n't get there on time. (Fact...
Beyond these rules and customs, there is only one more thing which I would criticise, and that is the practice of printing the price of the blue tickets on them. It is n't pleasant, if you wish to send a ticket to a friend, to see the price you paid stamped on it; and the practice seems wholly unnecessary...
...each man to weigh less than 150 lbs., men to weigh at Wood's Gymnasium, 4 and 6 East Twenty-eighth Street, April 3, at 8 P.M.; military tug-of-war (by special request) between company teams from the Seventh, Twenty-second, and Twenty-third regiments, N. G. S. N. Y. (teams of 6 men). Each team shall be allowed two substitutes. Saturday, at 1 o'clock, P. M., there will be a four-hour race, go as you please, open to any amateur who has never, in an open race, beaten 8 min. 30 sec. in a mile walk...
...first event, called promptly at 2 P.M., was between Messrs. R. W. Ellis, '79, and H. N. Fowler, '80, in exercise on the horizontal bar. The former excelled at almost every point, his "giant swing" and changing quickly while turning being specially noteworthy. He was awarded...
...next event - two-hand vaulting - proved popular, and five men entered, - Messrs. W. Watson, '81, F. F. Sneathen, L. S., H. N. Fowler, '80, J. L. Paine, '81, and C. H. W. Foster, '81. The vaulting was in "fence" fashion, although the proportion of fence was somewhat meagre. The bar was first placed at 5 feet 3 inches, and raised three inches each time. All the men cleared it easily, until the height reached was 6 feet 3 inches, when Mr. Paine failed to get over. At the next peg Mr. Fowler dropped from the list, and as none...