Word: lapse
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Fast Walking. - On September 14, at the sports of the Scottish-American Athletic Club, F. H. Armstrong in a 3-mile handicap, walking from scratch, covered the distance in 21 min. 17 sec., the fastest record in the world. The best English record is 21 min. 36 sec. by Venn...
The time of the six-oar crews was astonishingly fast, being it is said more than a minute faster than the fastest class-crew shell time, and yet the crews rowed in laps twenty-six inches broad and carried coxswains. In taking the time, there were two stop-watches used...
It is to be hoped that next spring the first-crew race will be opened to shells with no allowance to laps, and that the clubs will each own and enter a shell.
Fifteen seconds allowance for shells over laps in each race. There will be two stake-boats to avoid the chance of fouls.