Word: miles
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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SOME comment has been elicited from those who have seen the prizes of the H. A. A., owing to the fact that the cup given for the mile-run is so much less important than that for the mile-walk. The reason, however, becomes apparent upon a little reflection. The prize for the mile-walk was bought with the money subscribed by a club-table, made conditional on eight minutes being equalled. This was the exact time made. An equally handsome cup was offered for the mile-run conditional on 4 m. 55 sec. being made. This time...
...England; indeed, Lee, the single-scull winner, has been under suspicion for some time in this country. The "Sewing-Machines," as they are called, proved themselves miracles of gameness, endurance, and speed as their record of 7.17 1/2 in the short race and 18.44 1/2 in the three-mile race shows. The times for all the test-races are found to be from 8 1/2 to 10 seconds too fast, as the course - which was laid out by guesswork - proved, on being surveyed after the races, to be 130 feet 9 inches short of the proper distance. Hence the exact...
...crew row would be a sight worth travelling some distance to see. In stroke, style, and training they are exactly opposite to what the English rowing-men have always been taught to consider "good form." What they will think of a crew whose habitual stroke, even for a three-mile race, is 45, and who, on spurts, run up to 48 and 50 with ease to themselves; who are utterly without "form" of any sort; who set at defiance many of the traditional rules of training, and yet manage to carry their old 22-inch tub of a boat over...
...small audience. There were few entries, and as several events did not fill, men were allowed to enter at the post. 100-yards, F. W. Brown, '78, S. S., 10 1/4 sec.; running high jump, O. D. Thompson, '79, and Jewett, '79, tied at 5 ft. 2 in.; half-mile, H. Livingston, '79, 2 min. 8 sec., not 2 minutes as reported in our last issue; tug of war, '81; throwing baseball, W. J. Hutchinson, '80, 343 ft. 8 in.; Senior quarter-mile, T. E. Mower, 1 min. 9 sec.; mile-walk, A. A. Dorsheimer...
Yonkers. - The Yonkers (N. Y.) Lyceum held its games on June 7: broad jump, A. McNichol, 19 ft. 4 in.; 100-yards school-boys' race, J. F. Jenkins, 11 1/4 sec.; mile-walk handicap, H. B. Starr, (65 sec.) 8 min. 9 1/4 sec.; 100-yards, M. McFall, 10 1/2 sec.; mile-walk, F. J. Mott, 6 min. 57 1/2 sec.; quarter-mile, C. H. Rowlands, 56 1/4 sec.; two-mile walk, Armstrong...