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...afternoon a cricket match was played between the school eleven and a team made up of graduates. Exercises were held in the new chapel at 11.30, at which Samuel Eliot, LL.D., of Boston, delivered the address. In the afternoon, the second field meeting was held, in which three school records were broken. The events and winners were: Throwing the hammer, won by J. M. Fiske. Distance 78 ft. 10 in.; second, J. McFerridy, 73 ft. 10 in.; third, J. S. Black, 72 feet 11 1-2 inches-all breaking the record. Senior half-mile run for the Gardiner challenge...
Crom, of Oxford University, England, recently ran 600 yards in one minute, twelve and four-fifth seconds, thus beating the best English amateur record...
Last Wednesday afternoon, at New Haven, W. G. Lane, Yale '88, ran three miles against time and broke two records, the American amateur record for 1 1-4 miles and for three miles. The time was as follows: Half-mile, 2.27; mile, 4.59; one and a quarter miles, 6.18 1-5; two miles, 10.21; two and a half miles, 13.00; three miles, 15.41 1-5, beating the record of 15.55 1-5, by Harmar, Yale...
...York Athletic Clubs who are to compete at the English amateur meeting at Crewe on June 30, and at other places in Great Britain and on the Continent. The New York Athletic Club representatives are Emil Koos for the 100-yard dash; Edward C. Carter, who holds the American record from 1 1-5 mile to 10 miles, the 4 to 10 miles English championship and the 1 to 5 miles American and Canadian championship; Walter C. Dohm, the winner of the quarter-mile at Cedarhurst, who was beaten week before last at the Intercollegiate games by Wells; and George...
...meeting of the University of Pennsylvania Athletic Association, on Saturday, George Brinton broke the intercollegiate record held by Coxe of Yale, in throwing the hammer by 2 ft. 3 3-4 in., making a throw...