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...half-mile run has retired from the track permanently. It is reported that Ludington, '87, who holds the inter collegiate championship in the hurdle race, will take a post-graduate course here this year, and will run at Mott Haven next spring. Consider is expected of Packer, a sprinter who came here this fall from Andover. Murphy of Natick, Mass, is training the men. Much of Yale's success at Mott Haven last spring was due to him,-Boston Globe...
Brooks, Yale's famous sprinter, and Adams, the centre rush of last year's Princeton team, are at the Columbia Law School...
...article starts off with the statement that the most enthusiastic Yale man can only figure out second place for his college, and adds, "It seems that though the men who might take a first prize had concluded to let somebody else have a chance. Brooks, '86, the champion college sprinter, positively declines to enter this year. Hamilton, '86, the easy winner of the bicycle race at last year's games, also holds himself severely aloof from the track, and now says nothing can induce him to enter. Meredith and Mitchell, the Scientific School experts at the mile walk and half...
...Steady training and good coaching may improve him in this respect, and he stands a reasonably good chance of doing himself credit in the inter-collegiate contests. C. F. Odell, '86, is the mainstay of Yale's hopes in the 220 yards dash. Odell has always been a fast sprinter since his extrance to college, three and a half years ago, but he seems to have got his time just so low, and now can't lower it. If he wants to win at the games he must get to lee' ard of 23 1-5 seconds, in which...
...Brooks, Jr., the ex-champion Yale sprinter, is stated to be now undergoing a regular course of preparation in the gymnasium, having made up his mind to again represent the college at the annual inter-collegiate meeting. Robert Winston, the college trainer, expresses himself rather enthusiastically regarding the prospects of the Yalencian team for 1886, which will include Sherrill, '89; Bradner, '89; Smith, '86; Luddington, '86; Drvison, Sheffield, S. S., and Magindee, same class. All of these, with orhers, are training systematically. - Cyclist and Athlete...