Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fastest amateur runners in America at one-quarter mile are L. E. Myers, time, 48 3-5 sec.; H. S. Brooks, 50 1-5 sec.; J. A. Hodges, 51 sec.; Wm. Goodwin, Jr., 51 1-5 sec.; J. L. Jenkins, 51 1-2 sec.; and T. Murphy...
...fastest professional time for running 100 yards is 9 1-4 seconds, and was made by George Seward, an American, nearly thirty years ago, in England...
...arms to soon What the crew needs is to have the same eight row together for a few weeks, so that the men can all get accustomed to each other. Then, after obtaining more uniformity by a few long pulls, they ought to be the fastest freshman crew that has met Columbia within the last four years. The crew rows every day at about six o'clock. Col, Bancroft coaches them from the steam launch, which enables him to get a better view of the men and gives the coxswain abundant opportunity of learning how to steer the shell...
...weather is favorable, we may expect one of the fastest races ever seen on the Charles river...
From a comparison of the crews we get the following result: At present '87 is the heaviest crew, '86 the most skillful, '85 the strongest, and '84 rows the fastest for a short distance. The result of the race will show whether a professional, or the "Harvard" stroke is better for an eight-oared crew in a two-mile race...