Word: chartered
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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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...
...Tennis Club was in active operation last autumn, and a Bicycling Club, we are informed, will be the event of the coming season. It is rumored that as soon as the river is open a few "boating men," who are disgusted with the management of "club system," will probably charter one of Blakey's shells for their private use; so we may expect to see before long a "gentleman-six" on the Charles. To speak of the Fencing Club and the Pigeon-Shooting Club is but to mention other phases of the same spirit of progress. But the greatest advance...
Harvard vs. Charter Oak, 35 - 13 July...
Harvard vs. Charter Oak 16 - 14 July...
...line, but failed, for some reason, to consult it immediately: "When it was consulted it was found to be running, and the announcement was simply the judgment of the time-keeper, and as such cannot be relied upon." It says further, that Mr. L. J. Powers, President of the Charter Oak Park at Springfield, took the time of each mile, and according to his watch Yale made the four miles in 21.01. This is undoubtedly more nearly right than the time-keeper's guess-work, and should be substituted for the figures given in our account of the race...