Word: mile
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Half-mile run. Three-mile...
...well-known amateur walkers, F. H. Armstrong and F. Mott, they have been expelled from their respective clubs, and are no longer recognized as amateurs. W. O'Keefe and J. H. Noonen, both rather fast walkers, are also expelled. Armstrong was the amateur champion of America, and had a mile record of 6.44, if memory serves us, and Mott could also do his mile close to seven minutes. Their loss is a serious one to the amateur athletic interest of the country...
...their success. Two events have been added since the programme was published, - a tug-of-war between picked teams from the crew of the steamer City of Chester, of the Inman Line, and a chase by the Columbia College Hare and Hounds Club in full uniform. The four-mile walk (go as you please) promises to be the great event of the occasion. The entries from Columbia have been very large...
...days. The surface will be spaded up to a depth of one foot; eighteen inches will be removed from the inside all the way round, and the track carefully graded and rolled. We think that the track can be made from four to six seconds faster in the mile, and that this work will effect it. We omitted to say that the track will be carefully cindered to a depth of an inch, which will greatly add to its speed. An effort will be made to hold handicap games for "pewters" on several Saturdays in the spring, and to bolster...
...request of the two captains, the citizens agreed to make the boat-houses water-tight, a quality they did not possess last year. They also agreed that the space below the finish line should be unobstructed for one quarter-mile, and be patrolled by police-boats, and that the course should be buoyed by yawls anchored half a mile apart, each boat flying a red flag from a staff twenty feet high. Last year the buoys were so small as to be almost invisible to coxswains, and therefore valueless as guides. The first-mentioned method of buoying would distinctly mark...