Word: lap
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...afternoon in the Stadium. The weather conditions were bad, and the track soft, but good performances were seen in almost all events, and the meet on the whole was very encouraging. The most closely contested event was the one-mile run. R. E. Dole kept the lead for three laps, but J. R. Coolidge forced him all the last lap, and finally won by a few inches. Owing to lack of entries the 220-yard hurdle race was omitted...
...feature of the afternoon was the candidates' bicycle race, which was won by No. 23, after a change of steeds in the third lap owing...
...Olympic games, at Athens, last Wednesday, Lieutenant Hawtrey of England easily won the five-mile race, the greatest event of the day in the very fast time of 26 minutes 11 4-5 seconds. He was more than a lap ahead of Dahl of Sweden, the second...
...best time in the track events was made in the mile and two mile runs. In the last lap of the two mile run, Crosby with a handicap of ten yards took the lead from Groves, and finished first in 10 minutes 8 seconds. H. F. Miller, Jr., '08 with a handicap of ten yards won the mile run in the fast time of 4 minutes 31 seconds...
...Haven Naval Reserves, on Monday, March 19. The leading event on the program was a one-mile relay race between the Yale and Columbia Freshmen. Yale's team, which was composed of R. B. Burch, L. V. Howe, R. P. McNulty, and J. H. Browning, won by half a lap. Most of the other events were contested exclusively by Yale...