Word: runner
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Meyers, the famous runner, will run at the Harvard spring meetings, in return for Mr. Baker's courtesy in running at the Manhattan Club games...
...represent Yale at Mott Haven next spring will be the strongest she has ever sent down, as there is more work being done in this branch of athletics than ever before. A desperate effort will be made to bring home the cup. The struggle between Brooks, Yale's champion runner, and Wendell Baker of Harvard, will be the grandest thing ever seen in an inter-collegiate contest of this kind. They will probably meet in the 220 and 440 yards races, in the half-mile and perhaps in the mile. Baker holds the records, but Brooks is so close...
Bonine, the 100-yards runner of the U. of M., is doing good work at throwing the hammer. Ann Arbor expects him to make the best throw at Mott Haven. - News...
...collegiate championship from Harvard. The Yale trainer is reported in the papers as saying that Yale will send a stronger team to Mott Haven than she has for years; and Columbia, to, has a hard working squad, bent upon gaining renown for Columbia in track athletics. Brooks, the sprint runner of Yale, intends to run this year, if we are to believe reports, and the candidates for the running high jump and the broad jump, two events in which Harvard has lost very strong men, are out in full force. In short, greater efforts than ever, if that were possible...
...which is a heavy block of wood, covered with leather. The chief player is obliged to wear a sort of fencing mask and coat of armor to protect him from this "base," which is flung at him with great violence. In one picture can be seen how the finest runner of the Chicagos managed, although he stumbled, to lay hold of the "base" and thus to get possession of it." (The player in question was sliding in and just touching the home base...