Word: miles
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...gentlemen of Mr. Donaldson's club table, at Mrs. Browne's, have subscribed for a handsome prize to be given to the winner of the mile walk next Friday...
...following is the order of events of the H. A. A. next Friday: 1. half-mile run; 2. mile walk; 3. one hundred yards' dash; 4. running broad jump; 5. one mile run; 6. hurdle race (120 yards); 7. one fourth mile run; 8. potato race; 9. three-legged race; 10. bicycle race (three miles). Contestants are reminded that if they do not appear within five minutes after the bell is rung, they will positively be excluded...
Oxford-Cambridge Athletic Sports, London, April 12. - 100-yards, E. C. Trepplin, Oxford, 10 1/5 sec.; high jump, G. B. Blathwayt, Cambridge (5 ft. 8 in.); 120-yards hurdles, S. Palmer, Cambridge, 16 2/5 sec.; quarter-mile, W. H. Churchill, Cambridge, 51 4/5 sec.; one-mile run, D. L. Clarke, Oxford, 4 min. 31 2/5 sec.; wide jump, C. M. Kemp, Oxford (22 ft. 2 3/4 in.); three-mile run, A. Goodwin, Oxford...
...handicap, J. P. Muspratt (Trinity Hall), (11-yards' start), 12 sec.; wide jump, E. Baddeley (Jesus), 22 ft. 4 1/2 in. His jumps were: 21 ft. 7 in.; 22 ft. 1/2 in., 21 ft. 11 in, 22 ft. 4 1/2 in. Three other men jumped over 20 feet. Three-mile race, H. J. L. Evans (Trinity), 16 min. 12 3/5 sec.; 300-yards consolation, G. B. Hofmeister (Caius...
London Athletic Club, 2d Spring Meeting, March 30. - Races run in rain, wind, and snow. Ten-mile challenge cup, J. Gibb (holder), 55 min. 34 sec.; 100-yards handicap, C. Y. Bedford (5 1/2 yards), 10 sec.; 220-yards handicap, C. C. Clark (8 yards), 22 8/5 sec.; 120-yards hurdles, H. Allan (penalized 11 yards), 18 3/5 sec.; 300-yards handicap, C. C. Clark (15 yards), 32 4/5 sec.; 600-yards handicap, F. B. Montague (25 yards), 1 min. 15 1/5 sec.; four-mile steeplechase handicap, G. Mawby (scratch), 25 min. 35 sec.; 1,000-yards handicap, N. Turner...