Word: events
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...says he is willing to meet Dohm in a scratch half mile invitation race at the Berkeley Athletic club games on June 8, or in a similar race given under the auspice of the Manhattan Athletic club, or Princeton college. He concludes, "If I am beaten in such an event, properly traned, I will cheerfully concede Mr. Dohm's superiority at the half mile...
...Berkeley Athletic club will hold its first annual spring meeting at the Berkeley Oval, on June 8. The management has taken great trouble to make the programme as attractive as possible. and the games will certainly be a great success. The events open to amateurs are as follows: 100, 200, 440, and 880 yards dashes, 2 mile bicycle, one quarter mile bicycle race in heats, running high jump, putting 16 pound shot. All of the events except the quarter mile bicycle race are handicapped. Besides the open events the following invitation events, all of which are scratch, are offered...
...winning first place in this event, Yale ties Columbia in first prizes and will take the cup and championship in virtue of her having the greater number of second prizes...
...association records were broken: quarter-mile run, mile walk, putting the shot, running broad jump, 220-yards dash, and the running high jump. In the tug-of-war contest, Williams, Brown, Dartmouth and Worcester were represented. Dartmouth won the event over Williams by one inch. The 100-yards dash was run in four beats, owing to the great number of entries. The final heat wins won by E. Williams of Dartmouth, in 10 4-5 seconds. J. W. Mills of Worcester second. The 220-yards dash was won by J. W. Mills of Worcester, in 23 2-5 seconds. This...
...first event was a sailing race over a triangular course of about one and one half miles. The entries were B. B. Crowninshield, '90; G. L. Batchelder, '92, and Cartwright, Puritan Canoe club. The start was a flying one, the men being given one minute in which to cross the line. Cartwright crossed the line on the wrong side of the stake boat and lost much time in returning and crossing again. Crowninshield was the first to get away. He was followed thirty seconds later by Batchelder, and Cartwright was thirty-nine seconds behind Batchelder. The relative order...