Word: cinder
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...glad to see that several of our Athletes have not been idle during the summer; T. H. Simmons, '80, and E. J. Wendell, '82, having won several well-contested races. F. M. Ware, '79, has given up the cinder-path and taken to the turf. We wish him all success...
...finish of the one-hundred-yards race. The ground beyond the end of the sprinting course is a steep embankment, and Wilmer could not stop himself in time to avoid injury. This accident is much to be regretted, as Wilmer will of course be kept off the cinder-path for the rest of the season, and will not be able to compete against the English amateur sprinters who will soon visit...
...tracks in the United States, we learned that the track on Jarvis is second to none. Now with such a track, and with the services of one of the best trainers in England, we surely ought to be able to increase considerably Harvard's somewhat slender reputation on the cinder-path...
ATHLETICS.THE annual Gymnastic exhibition of Princeton College will be held June 14, and the Athletic games on the afternoon of the same day. If Princeton possessed a cinder track, excellent records might be made, and as it is, several events will probably be run in more than average time...
...exceedingly costly piece of work, and we hope that any assessment which may possibly be made will be paid up promptly and cheerfully. Now that the work is complete, it will not need renewing for a series of years, and we may also congratulate ourselves on having the only cinder path this side of Mott Haven, New York. The track has been carefully resurveyed, 18 inches removed from the inside all round, and it is now an exact fifth-mile in circumference. The roller will be kept going on it incessantly, and no trouble spared to make it as fine...