Word: tournaments
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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ALTHOUGH the Fall Meeting has been given up this year, nevertheless the new managers of the Athletic Association show that they do not intend to allow athletics to decline during the coming season. Several hare-and-hound meets, a lawn-tennis tournament, and a five-mile run, all within a few weeks, indicate considerable activity on the part of the officers. We are glad to notice that the entrance fee has been raised to three dollars, since it will obviate the disagreeable necessity of assessing the old members every year. As yet nothing definite has been arranged about a meeting...
...with the Beacons, beginning at 3 o'clock, P. M., and at 3.30 o'clock P.M. there are to be running and walking races, in which Messrs. Herrick and Wendell, of the H. A. A., will probably compete. A number of Harvard men also are entered in the Tennis Tournament, and the afternoon's sport will probably prove very entertaining. Mr. Wright deserves the heartiest support of the College men for the careful manner in which he fulfilled his duties as coach of our last year's cricket team, and we hope that the number of College representatives to-morrow...
...recent Bicycle Tournament in New York has brought to light a rider of great promise in the person of Mr. Walter S. Clark, whose performances are really of a most exceptional nature. His first appearance was made on January 17, in the two-mile handicap, in which he was given 350 yards' start; and he won this with such ease that in the second heat of the same race he was put back to the 75-yard mark, but again won, as easily as before. The third heat found him at scratch, and this time he succeeded in making...