Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-06
Yale Athletic Sports.
The Tug of War--Other Exciting Con

The Tug of War--Other Exciting Con-
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 A large crowd enjoyed the final contests of the winter athletic meeting at the Yale gym nasium on Saturday afternoon last. Much interest was awakened over the tug of war, the sparring matches, etc. Rev. Dr. Bar bour's presence called out 8 round Of ap~ plause, he taking hearty interest in the ath- letic sports of the college, and his son being one of the contestants
 The tug of war was the first event. This was between teams of GOO pounds each from '93 and 'S4, the winners of the trial heats last Wednesday. The juniors had the same team as before, but the sophomores had changed two men, Blodgett and Jeruberg talk ing the place of Pollock and Wells. The pull was an exciting one and was won by the juniors by about five inches The teams were as follows:
 '83-F. H. Beede, A. l.. Bowman, H. O.. Stowe, A. E.. Symington. 's4-G. R. Blodgett, F. H. Dodge, A. L.. l Farwell, R. A. Jeruberg. The next event was the vaulting, in which there were two competitors, E. l.. Porter, ! 'S4, and J. N. Futile, 'S4. The prize was \ won by Porter, who cleared feet inch. ! Next came the exhibition on the horizontal | bar. Of the five men whose names were l down on the programme for this event only l two appeared, Messrs. c. Smith, '83, and Scott, '94. Both did some very pretty work, but the prize was awarded to Scott. l For the high kick two men made their ap- pearance instead of the four promised by the l programme, F. M. Barbour, 'S4, and G. H ] Makuen, '84. The winner was Barbour, who touched the line at feet II inches, doing some of the prettiest kicking ever seen in the l gymnasium. Makuen made 8 feet H. $. Brooks, 'S5, next won the running and J. McHenry, 1855.
 R: Fosdick, '83, won the feather weight sparring match; his opponent was H. W Beckwith, '65, and it was very close con test.
 c. P. Phelps, 's4, won in the light weigh sparring, his opponent being A. L. Bowman 'S3. Lively applause was called out.
 In the fencing J. Q. Rice, 's2, vanquishet w. Smith, 'S3, making one point to Smith nothing in 8 close contest
 For the middle weight sparring two junior appeared, Messrs. H. o. Stone and J. B | Woodward. The match between them was highly good natured one, and seemed tt amuse the crowd very much. MT. Wood ward came out victorious, though at frs Mir. Stone led.
 H. Buist, ir., 's4, and Guy Mallon, 's5 contested in the feather weight wrestling Buist won the first fall in fifty seconds ane Mallon the next two in min. 35 sec., and min. 2l sec., respectively thus gaining tn prize.
 In the lightweight wrestling O. Smith, '83 won two falls to none by his opponent, B Cumming, 'S2. The time of the first was 5 seconds, of the second, I'm. 46s.
 The last.event, the middle-weight wrestling was won by J. I. Louther, '84, over L. s Bigelow, 'S5, by two falls to none. The frs was made in A. seconds, the second in I'm 23s.
 The officers in charge of the meeting wer, as follows:
 Executive omn1ittee-Theodore Cuyler, s: (president); I. B. Woodward, 'S3; R. w Hamill, 'S4; A. c. Thomson, 's5; s. l.. Will Hams, s. S. s. Referee-W. 0. Camp, 80 Judges-R. ". Watson, 'S1, s. s. s.; W. I Badger, '92. William Pollock l '82