Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-04

The First Day of the Winter Games
 The Record fin the Running High
 Jump Rroken-One of the COntests
 ants Faints-AndOver Club Mat
 ters.
 The first day of the winter athletic games in the gymnasium brought out good num- Der of contestants and spectators, the latter eager to estimate for themselves as best they could the chance Yale stands of winning the cup at Mott Haven next May.
 The first event was a tug-of-war between teams representing Shelf. and the combined freshmen classes. The former proved them selves much the stronger and won easily by twelve inches Next Saturday they will test their strength with 'S1's representatives. The teams were: s. s. S.-Farrington '96, Stew art 'SS, La Sassier '8S, Wilcox 'S6; tonsoli- dated Standardization '8S S., Gill '89, Mason '99, Osborn 'S8 s.
 Roby and Walker '88 gave a fine exhibi- ton of vaulting, in which the latter was suc- cessful, clearing the bar at $ fG. in.
 Brooks 'S6, Goodlett 86, w. Ludington 'S7, Berger s. s. s. and Goodwin 'S9 were the contestants in the running high jump. Goodwin jumped fit. 6 in., Goodlett fit. 4 in and the others it. 3 in.
 To MT. Goodwin belongs the honor of being the only person to break a record during the afternoon. The best previous record in NOONAOSS fall Shearnan 'S9 being the only entry for the parallel bar an exhibition by him was substituted for the regular conVtt.
 The light sparring between Rogers '99 and Sage 'eS s. was tame affair and calls for no especial mention. Sage won.
 .Kutz and Weave '89 gave quite pretty exhibition of their skill with the foils in which Weave made seven points to Kutz's six and won the prize.
 The middle weight sparring match be- tween Bigelow 'S7 and Townley 'S6 s. was the most scientific display of boxing given during the afternoon and would have been the most satisfactory had it not been that Townley lost two rounds by his gloves com ing off and being unable to replace them in the required ten seconds.
 The light weight sparring between Leaver- cit '87 and Beecher '88 was farce and shows the utter folly of entering into athletic contests without proper training. Beecher was in no condition for such 8 trial of endurance and soon showed his inability to cope with Leaverett. During the third round he gave out entirely and tainted.
 Bean '88 s. won the feather weight wrest ling over his classmate, Dickey, in two straight falls, and gave place to the heavy weights, Carter '88 S. and Gill '09, who were very evenly matched and tumbled about in the sawdust for several minutes before the contest was decided. Carter finally won by two straight falls in and 12 minutes.
 The middle weight wrestling between Stagg and J. Allen '88 proved much less ex- citing and was quickly won by the latter, though Stagg managed to secure one fall
 Hoggson '8S S., who was entered for the feather weights failed to appear and Magru- der S9 was accordingly declared the winner.
 The middle weight between Bigelow 87 and Townley '86 s. was postponed owing to the lateness of the hour and the closeness and consequent violence of the efforts of the two contestants in a previous event on the programme.
 Next Saturday will be ladies' day and the finals in the boxing and wrestling as well as some other features will form an attractive programme of the afternoons entertainment.
 The Andover club elected as its officers the coming year: President, Seymour 'S7; vice president, Cummings, '87 S.; secretary, Still son '88; treasurer, Sawyer '89; executive com mittee, Professor Wheeler, Chase and Pettee 'a7, Paradise 88. The banquet of all the Andover alumni, which is to be held in Bos- ton on the 18th, was discussed, and it is hoped that there will be @ large delegation present to represent Yale.
 After being laid up six weeks with acute rheumatism by taking two doses of Athlo phoros enjoyed good nights rest. I can recommend it as very valuable medicine and always keep bottle in the house. Mrs. Cordelia Narcotic, 8 Walnut street, Haver-