Word: miles
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Williams will take charge of the men. The rink at the corner of 23rd and Chestnut streets has been reengage for the year and with the improvement in the heating apparatus ought to make a good building for the team. The track is fourteen laps to the mile and has no very sharp turns. The building will be in the charge of Dr. Leuf and Mr. Smith and will be open for university men from eight in the morning until six at night. The following men have signified their intention to go into training immediately: short distances-Johnson, Ogden, Little...
...Pratt athletic field at Amherst there will be a half-mile oval track, and a quarter-mile straight away track. The base ball diamond will be within the oval and the tennis courts in other parts of the twenty acres...
...candidates for the Yale 'varsity and freshman crews met for the first time last Saturday. For the 'varsity, eighteen men presented themselves as candidates, which number will be added to later by several old men who have not as yet begun work. After a two mile run and exercise on the chest weights, the men were put through a series of leg and body movements, and they were then ready for the tank. The men are divided into two crews, each crew using the tank for half an hour. The positions of the men as they rowed in the boat...
...Athletic club will be held in Belleville Avenue rink near Fourth Avenue, Newark, N. Y., Wednesday, January 22, 1890, at 8 p. m. The events open to amateurs (A. A. U. rules to govern all competitions), are six handicap events, viz., 50 yards, 250 yards, 880 yards and two mile runs, one mile walk, running high jump; also a novices' 300 yard scratch race (for those who have never won a prize in open competition) and lastly, an obstacle scratch race (open only to club members...
...February 15, which is expected to be the greatest amateur tournament ever held in New England. All of the New York athletic clubs and the leading college athletic associations will send representatives. The list of events is: 50 yards run, 880 yards run, pole vault, 220 yards run, 1 mile run, 220 yards run over 2ft, 6in. hurdles, running high jump, throwing 56-pound weight, 440 yards run, 1 mile walk, putting 16-pound shot, tug-of-war of 650 pounds-4 men, 2 substitutes...