A large crowd, including many ladies and graduates, gathered in the Gymnasium last Saturday afternoon to wintness the second and final winter meeting of the Harvard Athletic Association. The events, eight in number, consumed a couple of hours and were much more entertaining than those of last week. Some of them needed but a sharp competition to make them very interesting, while others were more pleasing by their shortness; the scarcity of entries in the different contests was especially noteworthy, as was the absence of upper classmen as performers.

Three men appeared in the tumbling, C. B. Earle '94, R. D. Farquhar '93 and F. W. Moore '93. Moore took the lead and was followed by Farquhar and then Earle. After this the first two men did some double work, and then each of the three gave a separate and distinct exhibition of his specialties, in his own way. While the judges were deciding upon the winner, J. B. Henderson '91 and J. Bowler, the assistant in the gymnasium, gave an exhibition of double work which was very pretty and elicited much applause. Bowler was especially clever. By this time the judges had reached a decision and Moore was given the prize in tumbling.

C. N. Barney '94 defeated S. Borden in a preliminary fencing bout by a score of 5 to 3 and, J. R. Oliver '94 won another bout from R. Stone '93, by a score of 5 to 2. The final bout Barney won from Oliver by the same score of 5 to 2. The men had cloth on their breasts and as their foils were well chalked it was easy to see when a point was scored. The event was fairly well contested and afforded considerable amusement to the spectators.

Nine men appeared in the ten yards dash, and so O. W. Shead '93, R. Souther '94, S. Borden '94, D. Hoadley '93, and L. Tremain '93, ran in the first heat, while E. B. Bloss '94, G. S. Davis, Sp., J. C. Niles '94, and F. W. McNear '91, competed in the second. Borden got a good start and won his heat, leav-the other men tied for second place, which Tremain got in the second trial. Bloss had no difficulty in winning his heat and McNear came in second. In the final heat Bloss again ran away from his competitors and won the dash leaving the others tied for second place. On a second trial Borden dropped out and McNear finally secured the place from Tremain. It was almost impossible to get the accurate time for such a short distance, but the timers agreed that all the heats were run in 2 1-5 seconds.

The feather weight sparring between H. S. MacPherson L. S., and J. R. Whipple '94, afforded great interest and proved very entertaining. There were three rounds of as many minutes each, and then McPheron was given the event. Although 10 pounds lighter than his opponent McPherson was much more at his ease, and by his clever dodging and telling hits won many an advantange. Whipple fought a plucky battle and showed good staying qualities. The sparring began slowly but gradually grew faster and the last round was hard fought and one in which the heavier man often appeared to advantage.

The broad sword contest was decidedly tame and was awarded to P. R. Turnure '94 over R. Stone '93, by a score of 7 to 4.

J. P. Lee '91 and F. W. Moore '93 appeared as contestants on the horizontal bar. Both men gave a good exhibition, the former showing that he was a little out of training. Moore won.

The last event, the running high jump was awaited with great interest and was undoubtedly the most interesting one of the day. The contestants, together with their handicaps, were J. E. Morse, B. A. A., 2 inches, A. Nickerson, N. Y. A. C., 2 inches, G. R. Fearing '93, scratch, A. H. Green '92, 2 inches and C. D. Heywood M. I. T., 3 inches. It was a great disappointment to many that Fearing did not break his record or even equal it but he was still suffering from a lame ankle and was by no means in good form. Morse and Heywood failed at 5 feet 1 1-2 inches, and Fearing and Green at 6 1-4. Nickerson cleared the bar at this height and so won the event without his handicap and also broke his own record of 6 ft. The jumping was very pretty and Nickerson won much deserved applause by his graceful and easy movements. Green, too, did well winning second place. This was the only event in which the prizes were medals and not cups.

Just before the jump President Moen appeared with the old Mott Haven cup and also the new one, and, according to custom, formally presented the new cup to the college and called for cheers for the Harvard men who had helped to win it.

The officers of the meeting were: Referee of general events, G. B. Morrison '83, judges of general events, W. Soren '83, A. T. Dudley '87; referee of sparring, J. O. Shaw '73; judges of sparring, Walter Austin '83, I. Tucker Burr '79; referee of fencing, Curtis Guild, Jr.; judges of fencing, F. G. DeBlois, A. H. Howard; timers, E. E. Merrill, J. M. Lathrop, F. W. Wood; starter, R. S. Hale '91.