Word: feats
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Being dissatisfied with his performance he attempted the feat again last Saturday, October 22, at the Polo Grounds, New York. He again failed to lower the 1/4-mile record; but time-keepers stationed at intermediate distances announced that he broke the 300-yards record and 400-yards record; and he finished the whole distance in 48 4-5 sec., or just 1-5 of a second slower than his English record. His times for the intermediate distances were as follows...
...true value of "V. I. Z.'s" criticism. Had it been worth any thing at all, Mr. Maude would not have gone to the trouble of putting pen to paper. I am, therefore, obliged to him for relieving me kindly from replying to one who succeeded in the feat of writing a whole column without any bearing whatever on the question. But more grateful would I have been, had Mr. Maude saved me also the necessity of replying to himself. For manly as his letter is, he has not succeeded in correcting "the false impression . . . of the writer...
Messrs. Keene, '80, and Freeland, '81, were the contestants on the horizontal bar, and afforded a most graceful and pleasing entertainment. Mr. Keene's most noticeable feat, the difficulty of which was not at all appreciated by the spectators, was the Giant Vault, which consists of swinging under the bar once and back, and, as the body comes forward the second time, lifting the feet up so as to vault through the hands over the bar. This Mr. Freeland was unable to accomplish, but he executed with apparent ease the Free-will and Somersault, and the Back Horizontal, both...