Word: hurdler
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Stephen Chase of Dartmouth, the world's champion hurdler will not be able to take part in the contest as he injured his foot during the New England Intercollegiate Meeting last Wednesday...
...Mott Haven games, May 25, have been selected. Ten men will make up the party: Frederick Koch, a high jumper, shot putter and half-mile runner, is the captain, and with him will come Patterson, broad jumper; Edgerton, hammer and shot man; Merwin, mile walker; Torrey, low hurdler; Dyer, high hurdler; Bradley, half-mile runner; Barnes, sprinter; Woolsey and Dozier, broad jumpers, the latter being also a wheelman. Their contests arranged for are Princeton, May 11; U. of P., May 18; Mott Haven games, New York, May 25; Western Intercollegiate, Chicago, June 1; U. of Mich., June 18; and Denver...
Yale's freshman hurdler, Edward C. Perkins, the Hartford boy, is speeding along in such a promising manner that the indications are that he will run the present intercollegiate champion, Cady of Yale, off his feet. Perkins gets a great start, and in the big hurdles leads Cady to the finish. Cady, Perkins and Hatch, the last another new comer in the event, are clearing the hurdles close to 16s. flat in the 120 yards...
Among those who entered are Charles Kilpatrick, the champion half mile runner; Stephen Chase, world's champion high hurdler, and Michael F. Sweeney, the world's amateur champion high jumper...
Both hurdle races should be fought out by the Harvard and Yale men, though Michigan is said to have a low hurdler who has made fast time. Harvard can hardly hope for quite as good luck in these events as she had at New Haven, as Capt. Lyman fell in the finals of the high and Cady was shut out in the trials by meeting both Bremer and Garcelon...