First Winter Meeting.

The first indoor meeting of the H. A. A. on Saturday afternoon was much more satisfactory than the limited attendance would indicate. None of the events were uninteresting, and there could hardly have been better exhibitions than were given in the parallel bars, the spring-board leaping, the top spinning, and the high jumping. The latter was the big event of the day, and was remarkable for the excellent work of the Harvard men.

The meeting opened with the tumbling in which C. B. Earle '94, was the winner, with J. Staab '95, second. The work of the other four men entered was not particularly good.

In the invitation parallel bars exhibition, the team of five from the Boston Turn Verein easily won both places. Their performance was the best of its kind that has been seen here for some years. The only other entry in this event was J. Staab '95. First prize was awarded to Max Kreidel and second to A. A. Gebhardt.

The ten yards dash and the single bout in fencing were the least interesting events on the program. In the former, out of twenty entries, Whittren '95, won first prize; E. H. Clark '96, second; with Wheelwright '94, third. In the fencing, Hoffmann '96, won from Merriman '96, ten points to nine.

The potato race was close and exciting, E. H. Clark '96, winning by a slight lead over F. Mason '96, who took second. There were only four contestants.

W. E. Putnam '96, was left alone in the spring-board leaping. Without a single failure he cleared the bar till it reached eight feet five inches, one inch better than the old record. He did not try higher than this.

N. Kishimoto Gr., handled his Japanese top even more skilfully than last year. His exhibition was followed by a broadsword bout between R. B. Merriman '96, and J. C. Hancock '95. The latter won, ten points to eight.

V. M. Hillyer '97, and J. F. Rogers '97, were the only entries in the club swinging. Their performance was not remarkable, though Rogers was considered the best.

The high jump formed a perfect ending to the meeting. All of the eleven entries contested, and the jumping was of the higest order. M. F. Sweeney of the Xavier Athletic Club, was scratch. The other outside entries were P. C. Stingel of Cambridge, and W. D. Rising of the Newton A. A. J. L. Bremer '96, Rising and E. H. Clark '96, dropped out at 5ft. 6in.; H. M. Wheelwright '94, at 5ft. 7 1-2in.; G. C. Chaney '94, at 5ft. 8 3-4in.; S. M. Merrill '94, at 5ft. 9 1-2in.; W. E. Putnam, '96, at 5ft. 10 1-2in.; E. J. Paine '97, and A. Stickney '97, at 5ft. 10 3-4in.

This left only Sweeney and Stingel. The latter failed at 6ft. 1-4in, and Sweeney at one-half an inch higher. The event was a handicap. First prize went to A. Stickney '97, and second to W. E. Putnam '96.