At the games to held in Brooklyn on the seventh of April by Company A of the twenty-third regiment, there will be ten events open to entries from college men. These events include the following: fifty yards dash, handicap; 220 yards dash, handicap; one mile run, handicap; two mile bicycle, handicap; quarter mile run, handicap; potato race, scratch; one mile walk, handicap; 220 yards hardle; running high jump, the handicap being limited to three inches; intercollegiate tug of war. Gold and silver medals will be awarded as prizes in the contests. In the tug of war, the winning team alone will receive prizes. Yale will send men to the games and will be represented in the dashes and in the hurdle race. Yale, Princeton and Columbia are already entered for the tug-of-war. Entries for the games may be sent to A. H. Muller, Box 137, New York, before March 29. The entrance fee is fifty cents for each event.
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