Word: lapsing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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In the galleries the running and walking track, twenty-six laps to the mile, is already used by the Nine. Some of the rowing-machines are also in position. They can be used for double sculls as well as for a crew, and by a new improvement the danger of...
The race was a pretty one. Swan gradually passed every one but Williston, who had taken the lead; and, for the last two laps, there was a continual spurt between the two. Swan, however, won, by about three feet. Time, 7 m. 30 1/4 sec.
ATHLETICS.Taken as a whole, the times made at our fall meeting on last Saturday were fairly good. The track, of course, was rather slow, but not as much so as was generally supposed, as the time in the 100-yards, 220-yards, and hurdle-race will show, all these times...
One-mile Run brought forward four contestants: C. O. Brewster, '79, W. Brewster, '81, Thatcher, '82, Manning, '82. Brewster, '79, took the lead at the start, which Thatcher tried unsuccessfully to capture. They kept their positions nearly the same for three laps, then Thatcher took the lead, Brewster, '81, coming...
ATHLETICS.Manhattan Athletic Club. - A curious series of errors occurred at the sports of this club, on September 21. For a one-mile handicap walk, over a one-fifth-mile track, thirty-nine men started, and when the race was over, W. Purdy, 35 sec., was placed first, and his time...