Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...subjects for the fifth Junior Theme, A division, are as follows...
...yard handicap was run against the wind. The fifth heat was won by W. J. Crowley, 12 feet, in 10 1/4 sec.; the sixth by J. S. Voorhis, 18 feet, in 10 sec.; the second round by C A. J. Queckberner, 30 feet, in 10 1/4 sec. and J. S. Voorhis, 18 feet, in 10 1/4 sec. The final fell to J. S. Voorhis, 18 feet, in 10 sec. When heats are run in 10 seconds we naturally look, for the champions on the scratch mark, but instead we find M. McFaul, a deaf mute of the Fanwood...
...yards, by 58 1/4 sec.; and in final, beaten 5 yards, in 54 1/2 sec.; September 28, quarter-mile handicap, with 24 yards, won trial heat in 54 sec., and final in 52 3/6 sec.; October 12, at championship meeting, beaten 10 yards, by 54 8/8 sec., coming in fifth in field of seven. By no possible manipulation of figures can this man be reckoned better than 55 sec., and he is at least 25 yards behind champion form, yet he is put on scratch in a race...
...rather slow, but not as much so as was generally supposed, as the time in the 100-yards, 220-yards, and hurdle-race will show, all these times being most excellent. Several men have said that the track is over distance, and that it should have been a fifth-mile measured eighteen inches from the pole. The track was laid out by a surveyor, and is a fifth-mile measured about two inches from the pole. Perhaps it should have been measured farther out, and we shall take steps to settle this point at once, and if the measurement...
...ensuing year are, - Captain, M. H. Morgan, '81; First Lieutenant, J. K. Mitchell, '80; Second Lieutenant, R. Sturgis, '81; First Sergeant, E. H. Squibb, graduate; Second Sergeant, J. H. Seaverns, '81; Third Sergeant, A. H. Bowen, '79; Fourth Sergeant, J. H. Adams, '81; Fifth Sergeant, A. H. De Windt...