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...sophomore crew is also hard at work. The training has become slightly more strict, and a record is kept of the bed hour of every man. The weights of the men are taken regularly twice a week. According to the last record the weights were as follows: Baldwin 139, Bisbee 157, Brewer 154 1-2, Burgess 152, Davis 166, Earle 171, Hathaway 161, Maynard 157 1-2, Miller 157, and Slade...
...longest game of base ball on record was played at Boston in 1887 between Harvard and Manchester teams. Twenty-four innings were played, score...
...motion was then introduced by Mr. Bradford of Princeton that the association accept Carey's alleged record of 9 4-5 sec. for the hundred yards. An animated discussion followed in which J. P. Lee showed that since there were no official timers there the record could not be accepted without breaking the Association's rules. After some testimony from Burr McIntosh of the I. A. A. A. A. to the inefficiency of the men who timed Carey when he claimed to have made his fast time, the motion was voted upon and lost...
...appearance. He had little difficulty in clearing the bar at 6.00 7-8 and thus won the event from Dunning R. L. S., who had a handicap of eight inches. Fearing then had the bar put at 6.02 7-8, which was 5-8 higher than the indoor record. He had cleared this on his third trial when his arm unfortunately struck the stick and brought it to the floor. The attempt showed that the record would not remain long unbroken...
Best general references: Congressional Record, 51st Cong., 2nd Sess., pp., 828, 889, 1, 646, 1, 763 et seq., 1,860 et seq., Reynaud, "Histoire de la Discipline Palementaire," II, 355-400, 417; Dickinson, "Rules and Procedure of Foreign Parliaments," 204-276, 356; Bradlaugh, "Rules of the House of Commons," 78-80; H. H. Smith, "Rules and Practice of the House of Representatives...