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...games of the Manhattan Club at New York on Saturday, J. S. Mitchell threw the 56-pound weight 15 feet into the air, breaking the record by 1 ft. 3 in. In putting the 24-pound shot, J. S. Mitchell tied with F. Lambrecht, both covering a distance of 32 ft. 7 in. The best previous record was 25 ft. 7 in. in America and 27 ft. 11 in. in England...
...speed of a cricket ball. Turner, the well-known fast bowler of the Australian team, made the trial The testing apparatus consisted of a chronograph and a screan, across which wires were stretched, and through these wires electric currents were passed. When the ball cut the wires the record was instantly marked on the chronograph. The speed of the ball was discovered to be 81 feet a second or 55 miles an hour...
...Mott Haven team last spring. Prizes should be offered to the men showing the most progress in each of the different events during the successive trials. In this way more candidates will be brought out than if a prize were offered to the man making the best record, for against one or two old members of the Mott Haven team, the new candidates would have no chance. Certainly no complaint can be made of lack of interest in these contests, for last year there was always a crowd of men on hand in the gymnasium to watch the contestants. These...
Lehigh has won the championship of Pennsylvania this season with a record of ten games won to two lost, and 250 points seored against...
...West does not want such aid, and is opposed to such a scheme.- Cong. Record, speeches of Symes and of Teller...