Word: lapse
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Work has been begun at the armory in New Haven in preparation for the winter games which take place Friday and Saturday of this week. The track will contain sixteen laps to the mile, the finish being in the northeast corner of the building. A fifty-yards track has been...
The entire third floor is occupied by the gymnasium, which is one hundred and one feet long by fifty wide. It is supplied with a complete set of gymnasium apparatus, chest weights, rowing weights, rings, bars, etc. A running track is constructed, encircling the entire room nine feet above the...
The men who have been trying for places on the nine have not been put through such a vigorous course of daily exercise this year as has characterized the work of the candidates for past nines. It is still an open question if very strict training is of such great...
The third story is taken up by the gymnasium. Two small rooms in the front of this floor are to be used for a boxing and fencing room and a room for the director of athletics. The gymnasium proper occupies the remainder of the floor, and covers a space fifty...
The men have now been at work in the gymnasium since the Christmas recess. They pull chest-weights, exercise with wooden dumb-bells, run from five to ten laps on the track, play handball and practice sliding in the cage. The whole is under the immediate supervision of Captain Vila...