Word: amateur
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...success in England during the past summer of the American representatives, Messrs. Myers and Merrill, is so well known to all lovers of amateur racing that we shall attempt little more here than a mere mention of their various contests. Their first appearance was made on June 25, in London, at the games of the London Athletic Club, in which Myers easily won the 1/4-mile run in 49 4-5 sec. (beating the best previous English record by 3-5 of a second), Phillips, London Athletic Club, second, by eight yards; and Merrill won the 2-mile walk...
Their second appearance was at a special meeting of the same club on July 2, when Myers won the 1/2-mile run in 1 min. 56 sec., beating all previous amateur records (the best English record previous to this being Elborough's, 1 min. 57 1/2 sec, and the best American record, 1 min. 56 1/8 sec., by himself); Merrill won the 3-mile walk...
...opponents for unfair walking, was by preventing Merrill himself from finishing the distance and thus have all bets declared "off" on the ground of there being "no race." This blackguardism was the more unfortunate as at the time it happened Merrill bid fair to eclipse all previous amateur records at the distance, one mile. As it is, his own record, 6 min. 33 2-5 sec., made in New York before leaving for England, still stands as the fastest amateur record in the world at the distance. Myers at this meeting succeeded in making 49 sec. in the 1/4-mile, thus...
Their next joint appearance was at the English Amateur Championship Games, on July 16, at Birmingham, and it was here that each received his first and only English defeat. Myers's defeat was in the 100-yards dash, in which he finished fourth in the trial heat, Cowie, Cleaver, and Malone finishing respectively first, second, and third; the winner's time being 10 1-5 sec. Myers claims that owing to the track being down hill he lost his balance and was thrown out of his stride, and that all through the race he was trying to run and keep...
...American amateur record in the running broad jump was bettered at the Manhattan A. C. Games, May 30, by J. S. Voorhees, M. A. C., who cleared 22 ft. 7 3-4 in., beating the previous best record...