Word: lap
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...scramble. Hill started from scratch in one of the trial heats, but was unable to get through the field. A. W. Blakemore '97, R. W. Bull '96, E. Hollister '97, all got places in the trial heats and started in the finals. An unfortunate accident occurred on the third lap, just when the race was promising to be a grand struggle. One of the men tripped on the corner and three of four others, among them Bull and Hollister, went down with him. They picked themselves up and ran the race out, but the ground lost was too great...
...mile run was started with a double row of men on the 80 yd. mark. A. Blake '93, representing the B. A. A., won after a sensational spurt on the last lap. Time, 4 min. 57 45s. J. Bordman '94, (45 yds.), was third. R. R. Hollister '97, (55 yds.) made a good fight, but was beaten in the finish...
...indoor handicap games of the B. A. A. last year occurred the first races between any of the larger colleges. Amherst won from Dartmouth in an intensely exciting finish which was decided by the casting of a shoe by a Dartmouth runner on the last lap. Harvard met Yale at the same meeting, but the race was hardly interesting after the first two laps. The feature of the race was the remarkably strong running of Brewer, who ran first for Harvard. With twelve sharp corners to take, he covered his 390 yards in the good time...
...candidates who are now training under Mr. Lathrop ran trial heats yesterday. The distance was the same for every man, once around the six lap track, a distance of 293 yards. As the men have been training only a week, the time was not as a rule nearly as good as it will be within another week or two. The best record was made by J. P. Whittren, L. S., who ran the distance in 33 3-5 seconds. The next best time was made by S. M. Merrill '94, who ran in 34 2-5 seconds. There were eight...
...long lap does away with the short turns of the old track and will make it practicable to transfer to the new track much of the running which at present is done on North avenue...