Word: mile
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...galleries the running and walking track, twenty-six laps to the mile, is already used by the Nine. Some of the rowing-machines are also in position. They can be used for double sculls as well as for a crew, and by a new improvement the danger of soiling the clothes with the grease on the sliding seats has been entirely removed...
...final heat of the mile-race was between Messrs. Swan and Sturgis, '81. The former won by beautiful riding, in 3 m. 22 1/8 sec., - remarkable time, when the bad weather and sharp turns are taken into account...
Messrs. W. H. Herrick, '82, and S. Williston, '82, entered in the mile maiden-race for riders that had never taken a prize. Williston reserved himself till the fourth lap; and then, by a brilliant spurt, he took the lead, and won by a hundred yards...
...last event was a two-mile handicap, for which there were the following entries...
...first was the mile-race. R. C. Sturgis, '81, J. A. C. Wright, '81, rode in the first trial-heat; the former winning very prettily...