Word: jumped
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...advantage of him. He caught the leader, however, only about five yards from the tape, F. A. Thompsen (formerly of Harvard, '82) finishing a good second. Thompsen also took second prize in the hammer, with a record of 81 ft. 11 1/2 in.; and in the hop, step, and jump, with 40 ft. 9 in. to his credit. E. E. Merrill, the champion amateur walker of America, at one and three miles, started at scratch in the 2-mile (handicap) walk, but being over-handicapped, as well as out of condition, was only able to finish third. The race...
...made by men who had more or less handicap given them. We have omitted the records at the hammer from this table, owing to the fact that hammers of different weights were used in nearly every case, so that a fair comparison would be impossible. The standing broad-jump at Williams must have been made with weights, as otherwise it would be a best-on-record. The only event in which the best American College record is beaten (unless it turns out that this latter record is correct) is the 100-yards dash in the McGill Sports, as mentioned above...
...High Jump...
...over the animal's back than the mule started, first with five or six buckjumps of twenty feet or more, and then went off at a tangent down the road, his tail high in the air, puffing fire from his nostrils, and increasing his speed at every jump, whilst the poor detective, bouncing like an india-rubber ball on his back, landed alternately upon the sharp protuberances of the army saddle, and cried to him to stop, that he wanted to get off and walk...
...Running Broad Jump...