Word: conneff
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Dates: during 1888-1888
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...have been received, including champions in all events from England, Ireland, Canada and the United States. There are also a number of college champions among the entries. Among the most prominent athletes who are expected to take part, are as follows: In the one mile handicap run, George and Conneff; in the quartermile handicap, Banks and Estes; in the sixty-yards handicap, Weston and Copeland; in the two hundred and fifty-yards hurdle handicap, Mapes of Columbia College, and Copeland. Moffat, the well-known Canadian runner will meet Phibbs, the Irish champion in the half-mile...
...games of the Manhattan Athletic Club on election day, four records were broken by Conneff and Mitchell. In the two mile run, Conneff lowered the American records for 1 1-4 and 1 3-4 miles, and lacked only 4 5-8 seconds of equalling the best time for the two miles. Mitchell threw a 16-pound hammer, nine ounces overweight, 130 feet. This is 2 feet, 11 inches better than the former record. He also threw the 56-pound weight 30 feet, 1 inch, breaking Condon's record of 27 feet, 9 inches...
...miles American and Canadian championship; Walter C. Dohm, the winner of the quarter-mile at Cedarhurst, who was beaten week before last at the Intercollegiate games by Wells; and George Gray, who holds the world's championship in putting the shot. The Manhattan men are Conneff, the four mile Irish champion, whose record is 19m. 44s.; F. Westurg and Crumley in the 100-yards, dash, and H. M. Banks, who has run the quarter...
...Conneff, the Irish champion, has challenged E. C. Carter for a match race for any distance from one-half to five miles...
...half mile run was won by Conneff in 2m. 5 3-5s. Smith of the N. Y. A. C., was second by two yards, beating Cogswell of Harvard who received third prize, by the width of his body. Downs of Harvard was a close fourth...