Word: lapse
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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The best races were the two mile handicap and the final heat of the one mile open. The two trial heats of the mile were processions. In the final heat, however, Brinckerhoff went ahead of the starters to set the pace for two laps, and an interesting race was the...
The Yale indoor record in the half mile run has been broken by F. Boardman '97, who covered a half mile on the gymnasium track in 2m. 12s. As there are eighteen laps to the mile on this track his record is very fast.
The rejecting of the proposed three mile run will certainly give considerable satisfaction to the spectators of the annual athletic contest, if not to the athletes themselves. A very long race is at best not an exciting contest to watch. The pace is necessarily slow when compared even with the...
The quarter mile run furnished one of the best races of the day. Bingham took the lead at the start, closely followed by Marshall, while Vincent was almost the last man. He gradually worked his way through, however, and, on entering the stretch, was on even terms with the first...
The bicycle race proved very interesting. Holmes, Brinekerhoff, Eliot and Burdett started in the final heat, and for six laps maintained this order. Burdett then quickened his pace and led until the home stretch, when he was passed by Eliot and Brinckerhoff. The former crossed the line first in a...