Word: dashes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...bases were full. Kellogg took a lead half way up to second base. Willard took the ball and walked slowly up to second to put Kellogg out, trying at the same time to keep Murphy on third base. When Willard had almost reached second base Murphy made a dash for home. Willard threw wild to Henshaw, and Murphy was home with the other men advanced a base. Kellogg started for third base and the ball was thrown to put him out. Driscoll mean while came home, and Kellogg got third on the attempted out at the plate. The playing...
...meeting held last Thursday on the grounds of the New Jersey Athletic club at Bergen Point, to decide the Eastern amateur athletic championship of the Amateur Athletic Union, three events were run which must greatly interest Harvard. They were as follows: Two hundred and twenty yards dash-Final heat won by James P. Lee, Harvard College and New York Athletic Club, 23 1 5 seconds; C. H. Sherrill, Yale University and New York Athletic Club second by two feet...
...nine. Exeter's showing would hardly have been so poor had she not been unfortunate. In the bicycle race her man took a header in the last lap, in the mile run her leading man was taken ill and had to be carried off, and in the 220-yards dash, Ellis fell within six feet of the finish with the Andover man just abreast...
...events and winners are as follows:-1 mile bicycle race, Hallock, Andover, 3 minutes, 18 3-4 seconds; 2nd, Burr, Andover, School record broken. 100 yard dash, Baker, Exeter, 11 seconds; 2nd Ellis, Exeter. Running high jump, Heywood, Exeter, 5 feet, 5 5-8 inches; 2nd, Holmes, Andover; record broken. Pole vault, Cartwright, Andover, 8 feet 11 inches; 2nd Parrot, Exeter. Mile run, Curtis, Andover, 4 minutes, 56 seconds; 2nd Graves, Exeter. Record broken. Putting the shot. Turner, Andover, 32 feet, 4 1 2 in. 2nd, Ford, Exeter, 120 yards hurdle race, Graves, Andover, 19 2-5 seconds, 2nd, Stothers...
...onequarter, and one-half mile; Yale has six to credit, while Amherst and the University of Pennsylvania have each one. One the other hand, Oxford holds six of the English records, and Cambridge holds the same number, as each of them hold the record for the one hundred yards dash. The records placed to the credit of American colleges are better in several instances than the American Intercollegiate records, but they are authentic records nevertheless and were made by college athletes...