Word: junker
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...best amateur records to date for the above distances are: 150 yards, 15 sec., Phillips, (Eng.); 15 1-8 sec., Brooks of Yale; 180 yards, 18 1-5 sec., Junker, (Eng.); 200 yards, 20 1-8 sec., Myers, New York. The best English amateur record for 220 yards was made by Phillips, London, 1878, is the same as Baker's American record. The best professional record in the 220, is 21 4-5 sec. Hutchens...
...imitate the care with which the Cambridge and Oxford men prepare and train for these athletic contests. At the Cambridge University Sports, on March 9, Mr. E. L. Lucas, Jesus, succeeded in running 100 yards in 10 secs., thus beating the previous English amateur best on record held by Junker by one-fifth of a second, and placing the English and American amateur records at the same figure. On the same occasion, Mr. R. H. Macauley, King's, cleared 5 ft. 9 in. in the Running High Jump, which is better, by three-quarters of an inch, than the record...