Word: marathon
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...scheduled a Marathon race for Lexington Day, April 19, to be run in connection with a set of handicap games. The course will be designed as closely as possible on the lines of the original, and will be from a start beyond South Framingham to a finish at Irvington Oval where the open games will be held...
...first of a series of cross country runs for the purpose of developing men for a 25 mile "Marathon Race" next April, was held Saturday by the Boston Athletic Association. The distance was five miles, from the B. A. A. club-house to Coolidge's Corner and return...
...Lampoon comes out today in the form of a Bicycle-Olympian number, in imitation of Puck and Judge, its "fellow confederates," as it terms them. The centre picture is an impressionistic sketch by T. M. Hastings '98, of the "race from Marathon to Station." The full page drawing by C. H. L. Johnton '99, of the rush from English A, is a very clever bit of caricature drawing and a very clever picture of that glimpse of "animal life." On the whole it is agood number and up to the usual standard...
...Frank Rowe will compete. If the conditions are favorable it is thought that Hollister stands a good chance of breaking the Harvard record. Another good event will be the one mile race in which Conneff is scratch man. Grant has 50 yards and Blake, who ran in the Marathon race, has 55, which are the two smallest handicaps. Hoyt will probably take part in the pole vault and Cross of Yale who recently did better than the intercollegiate record with throwing the hammer 143 feet, will compete in this event as well as in the shot put. Ellery Clarke...
ATHENS, April 10.- The interest in today's sports at the Stadion excelled that of any previous day, as it was the day for the foot race from Marathon to Athens. The fact that the three Greeks were the first ones in this race has stirred up the whole population to the deepest enthusiasm...