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...events will be forty-yard dash; three hundred-yard run; six hundred-yard run; thousand-yard run; eight hundred-yard walk; two hundred and fifty-yard hurdle; running high jump; putting sixteen pound shot and pole vault...
...with the shield. There will be a team race between Hopkinson and Roxbury Latin, and the other events (all scratch) will be as follows: Forty yards dash, 300, 000, and 1000 yards runs, 250 yards hurdle race (2 ft 6 in) half mile walk, running high jump, putting 16 pound shot and pole vault for height. First and second prizes will be awarded...
...inches deep forward, and 5 1-2 inches deep aft. The shell will be composed entirely of aluminum, with the exception of the wash box, which will be wood, and the outriggers, which are to be of steel tubing, hard drawn. The shell will weigh 175 pounds. Ordinary paper shells weigh about 225 pounds, and Waters, the famous shell builder of Troy, N. Y., claims that a 200 pound eight oared shell is an exceedingly light one. The aluminum shell will be built in two pieces, being divided fore and aft and them joined amidships. It is designed to carry...
...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, ten flights, two feet six inches high: individual tug-of-war, unlimited weight...
...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, and the standing hop, step and jump. Shead won the first event, putting the shot 31 feet. He was handicapped 3 ft. 6 in. Hyler got second place his handicap being 3 ft. 6 in. Shead made 67 points and Hyler 64. Bloss won the hop step and jump, covering...