ATHLETIC SPORTS.

BASE-BALL, Cricket, and Boating give amusement and exercise to many; still there are others, not especially expert at these, who would be glad to enter into out-door sports where skill and muscle could be shown.

In addition to the Cricket Matches and Boat Races, the English Universities have trials of skill in running, jumping, throwing the hammer, etc., which have been very successful and have attracted a good deal of attention.

Yale, also, has had such contests. The programme at one of these which took place about a year ago, consisted of long walking and running races, short dashes of two hundred yards or so, running and standing, high and long jumps, hurdle racing, and throwing the base ball.

Now, here is quite a field for any one aspiring to athletic honors, and it seems as if it would be a good thing to form an Athletic Club here, which might, if desirable, have matches with Yale, or even an intercollegiate contest, if such a thing were practicable.

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