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...Haven. F. W. Brown, '78, won the 100-yards dash in 10 1/4 sec, which is wonderfully fast time. H. L. Livingston, '79, won the half-mile run in 2 min. If this time is correct, and the distance run was 880 yards, it is the fastest amateur time in America by some seconds; and we think, although we have not the records at hand just now, that it is very nearly the best amateur time ever made. Mr. Livingston also won the quarter-mile in 54 3/1 sec. O. D. Thompson, '79, and J. Jewett, S. S., '79, were...
...Country says, "Although Columbia has no claim to represent the Champion American College Four, she has as good a right as any so to do." The N. Y. Spirit says, "Columbia's performances at the Centennial are overestimated. The British crews she met there were not the fastest crews in England. Dublin had no rank at home: Cambridge was no University Four, but a volunteer party from the various College Rowing Clubs; the London Four had only two of its regular men. We notify English oarsmen that when they beat Columbia, they beat a crew never within sight...
BICYCLING.In view of the present budding, and, it is to be hoped, increasing, interest in this sport, we append tables of fastest times, as likely to be of interest
...attention has been paid to the construction of the coxwain's seat, and it is believed that in this particular the best possible contrivance has been secured. The crew regret that they have been unable to obtain an English boat, and have thus lost the chance of selecting the fastest boat for the race; but they are determined to do their best with the Blakey ship...
Successful crews are accustomed, as the only means of securing a fast boat, to try several from the best builders, and then select the fastest; for builders universally admit that the making of a very fast boat is more a matter of luck than of science and rule. We ought to have three boats to select from, - one from England, one from Blakey, and one paper. Of these, the College will certainly get one, probably that from Blakey; for the paper boat, we can hardly hope; but the boat from England, where the building of shells has been most perfected...