Word: dashing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...clock, the Amateur Athletic games will be held at the North End Park under the auspices of the City of Boston. About forty entries have been made by members of the University. There will be six handicap events open to registered athletes: a 100-yard dash, a 440-yard dash, an 880-yard run, a mile run, a three-mile run, a running high jump, and a novice scratch 100-yard dash. The prizes for each event will be gold and silver watches for first and second places, and umbrellas for third. This is the first meet this spring...
...element unexpected in musical comedy, for Mr. Hodges succeeds in bringing out the full farcical effect and at the same time a suggestion of the pathos of the proud old actor who really could do "straight heavy" if he only had a chance. The act goes off with a dash and follow unusual in a college production, and ends with a skilful device which leads the imagination of the audience across the gap of the entr'acte...
...fiftieth annual track meet between Oxford and Cambridge Universities held Saturday at the Queen's Club, London, resulted in a tie, each university winning five out of the ten events. Cambridge won the 100-yard dash, the quarter-mile run, the half-mile run, the 120-yard hurdle race, and the broad jump, while Oxford captured the weight putting event, the hammer-throw, the high jump, the mile run, and the three mile...
...year are exceedingly bright, as no one will graduate but J. McDonough '13, this year's captain. J. Wentworth '14, of Chicago, has been elected captain for next year, and he is keenly interested in the work of developing a team. He will take part in the 50-yard dash and 220-yard dash. The mainstay of the team will be H. R. Hitchcock '14, who swims in the 50, 100, and 220. His time for the 100-yard dash is 59 seconds, and, for the 220-yard dash, 2 minutes and 43 seconds. In the plunge, J. Greenough...
...first heat of the 40-yard dash, J. I. Abbott '14 qualified for the finals, but he failed to place in the deciding heat, which was won by H. P. Drew of Springfield H. S., in 4 4-5 seconds...