Word: fall
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...probable that another Hare and Hounds meet will be held this fall, and before the next one we would like to make one or two suggestions: first, that the time allowance given to the hounds should be lengthened to ten minutes, and, secondly, that instead of enticing embryo athletes into a run of fifteen miles, with a notice of a course of "about six miles," some more definite idea of the distance be given. Would it not be well to name the place furthest off (for instance, Waverley) that the course would touch, so that a man could have some...
...fall the muddy streams like rain...
...fall like this have I been through
...weight, but in the details of construction it is vastly superior. Wooden pulleys on steel shafts have been substituted for the old iron pulleys, and the cowhide has been replaced by Manila rope. The weights are placed in a stout wooden box, which is guided in its rise and fall by steel rods. When not in use this box rests on a rubber pad preventing the disagreeable jerk and jar which invariably ensued when the weight was allowed to descend a little too far. The weights can be put in or removed from this box at the pleasure...
JOHN KEEN defeated David Stanton in a fifty-mile race in Boston, November 10. Stanton was suffering from a severe fall which he received in England, just before leaving for this country, and could not do himself justice. Keen completed the distance in 3 hrs. 10. min. 1 sec. Keen also defeated Terront in a twenty-mile race. Time: 1 hr. 14 min. 31 sec. William Cann completed a little over fifteen miles...