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...convenience of reference we publish below the general programme of events for the coming winter meetings of the H. A. A. First meeting, March 10. Events - Parallel bars, putting the shot, heavy-weight sparring, middle-weight spurring, heavy-weight wrestling, middle-weight wrestling, light-weight wrestling, feather-weight wrestling, tug-of-war, '85 and '86 (pulled on cleats, six hundred pounds, limit five minutes). Second meeting (ladies' day), March 17th. Events - Two-handed vault, club-swinging (legitimate, five minutes limit), standing high jump, running broad jump, light-weight sparring, feather-weight sparring, fencing, tug...
Steamer Excelsior, plying between Washington and Norfolk, was run into by a government tug yesterday and cut down to the water's edge. No lives lost...
...Terry, '85; throwing base-ball, 323 ft., by Newell, '83; Scientific; broad jump, 17 ft. 3 in., by Smith, '83; high jump, 17 ft. 3 in., by Smith, '83; high jump, 5 ft. 3 1/4 in., by Dodge, '85. Lawn tennis was tied by three. The tug-of-war was won by the class...
...Tug" Wilson, the English bruiser, has sailed for home, and if he writes a book about America he will have no trouble in telling what "struck him most forcibly" in this country...
...think many will rejoice at any fair move looking towards a change in these customs. At present lacrosse and tennis are about the only sports these men have any chance of entering. As an example of this exclusive tendency I may instance the old and new methods of "tugs-of-war" practised at Harvard. Formerly a tug-of-war was an enjoyable sport, in which some forty or fifty or more participated. Now a tug-of-war means a stern and painful struggle between eight straining athletes devoid of any great general interest...