Word: quarters
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...time made by R. Bacon in the quarter-mile run equals the best amateur time made in America; and when it is taken into consideration that the track was heavy and the wind was blowing in the face of the contestants, the records are very satisfactory and encouraging...
...offers of different gentlemen to give handsome cups proved an inducement to men to train, and in consequence the starters in the different events were, as a whole, more nearly "fit" than they have ever been before. The time made in the Hundred-Yard Dash and Quarter-Mile Run was most excellent, - remarkable when we consider that it was made on a track of loose dirt, instead of a cinder path. The Bicycle Race produced capital sport, every inch of the three miles being closely contested. It was, we believe, the first race ridden by amateurs in the country. Next...
City of New York. - This college held its annual games on May 25, in New York, and the following is a summary: Hundred-yards, Palker, 10 7/8 sec.; quarter-mile run, Collister, 1 min. 5 sec.; half-mile run, Bomeister, 2 min. 22 sec.; mile-walk, Smith, 8 min. 57 sec.; five-mile walk, Boggs, 47 min. 11 sec.; running long-jump, Stuart...
Rare Excellence. - At the charter-house athletic sports held on April 20, in England, W. J. Growse won the wide jump at 19 ft. 11 in.; mile run in 4 min. 51 sec.; 200 yards in 22 1/4 sec.; 100 yards in 11 1/2 sec.; the quarter in 57 1/2 sec.; and the 660-yards steeple-chase in 2 min. 41 sec.; a most wonderful all round performance...
...kindly put it at the disposal of all who wish to train; yet its distance from the college was discouraging. At last, a happy thought struck some one, to measure off the path around the Soldiers' Monument. It was done, and a very good track of one hundred yards, quarter-mile, half-mile, and mile has been made of it; and it is there that most men do their running and walking now, though the number at Beacon daily increases...