Word: breaks
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fielding the teams ought to be about even. The Haverford men have been working since Christmas, under the instruction of Woodcock, the college professional. Their captain, Bailey, is on the first eleven of the Merion C. C. He bowls fast round arm, with a good deal of curve and break. Martin, a slow bowler with a both off and leg-break is on the first eleven of the Young America club. Muir one of the best batsmen is on the eleven of the Belmont club...
...game in this country, states that Leavitt was done an injustice, and if the officials at a competition where he was taking part should decide that he would have to lend his pole, which was built expressly for his weight, to a man much heavier, who was liable to break it, that he would withdraw from the competition. He considered a man's pole fully as private as his pair of spike shoes. At the next meeting of the A. A. U. they will probably pass a resolution coinciding with Mr. Baxter's ideas...
Bicycle race, Lewis '91, 3 m. 38 3-4.; 100 yards dash, Ellis '90, 10 1-2s,; throwing the hammer 'Furman '90, 66ft. 7in.; 440 yards dash, Stothers, '90, 56 3-4s., (beaking the record); running hop, skip and jump, Bloss '90, 42ft. (break the record); mile walk, Chamberlain '90, 9m. 7 1-4s; 220 yards dash, Ellis '90 24 1-4s.; putting the shot, Ford '91, 30ft. 8In.; running broad jump, Heywood '89 19ft. (breaking record); 100 yards three legged race, Ewing and Ellis '90, 12 1-2s; standing broad jump, Bullard...
...race meet of the Rhode Island wheelmen will be held today at Narragansett Park, Providence. R. H. Davis '91 has entered for two safety races, the two mile scratch and the mile handicap; in this latter race Davis is scratch and will try to break the record. Greenleaf '92 has entered for the two mile American championship race. Bailey '91 has entered for the two safety races, and with his brother for the tandem safety race...
...high respect and regard in which his class held him, has made them feel more deeply the break caused in their numbers by his death-the first which has occurred in the class since graduation...