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Harvard has been rowing a series of annual eight-oar shell races with Yale since 1876. The record won is a tie-each college having row six races. Prior to the eight-oar contests the record was 17 to 4 in favor of Harvard. Beginning with the annual series, Yale won in 1876 by eight lengths. The following three years Harvard's crew, with Bancroft as stroke and captain in '77 and '78, and with Trimble as captain in '79, won all the races. In 1880, Yale won, and also in 1881 by six seconds. Capt. Hammond...
Williams college holds the world's amateur record in throwing the base-ball, with a throw of 127 yards 2 1-2 inches...
...unbearable. The first event was putting the shot. Pennypacker, '88, and Gibson, '88, were the only contestants. Pennypacker won the event with a throw of 37 ft. 9 1-2 in., Gibson's best put being 35 ft. 2 in. Mr. D. C. Chamberlain, '86, who holds the Harvard record in this event, was present and acted as measurer. Pennypacker's put beat the one made at the Yale and Second Regiment games held in New Haven, March 3, by 1 1-2 in. The middle-weight wrestlers next appeared. The contest was narrowed down to L. W. Puls...
Jones, '88, chairman of the Exeter Lit, has offered a gold medal to that member of the nine who shall have the best record in base-sliding at the end of the season. The Oxonian has offered a similar medal to the man who gets the highest batting average...
...position of third base, Quackenbos, M. S., is the most promising candidate. He played third last year on the Dartmouth College team and made an enviable record both in the field...