Word: mile
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Mechanics Building will be the scene of the first amateur-professional athletic carnival of the winter season next Saturday night. There will be several feature events, chief among these being the 10-mile marathon race in which Alfred Shrubb, British long-distance champion and coach of the University cross-country team is entered. W. H. Meanix '16 will start in the 300-yard event from scratch...
Coach Alfred Shrubb, British long distance champion, is expected to compete in a ten-mile race in Mechanics Building on December 5, together with other well known runners. Among those entered besides Coach Shrubb, are A. E. Wood, the Canadian distance champion; Coach Queal of the Yale cross-country team; and Edward Crooks of Fall River...
...probability the death knell of the four-mile rowing course at Poughkeepsie has been sounded. The Intercollegiate Rowing Association, which is now composed of Cornell, Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania, is known to favor the shorter three-mile races, and although refusing to commit itself on the prospects of a change before the regatta next June, it is confidently expected that Cornell's renewed agitation will result in the change. Coach Courtney of Cornell and Coach Rice of Columbia are much in favor of the proposed shortening of the course, as they regard the four-mile contest too much...
...event of the university contest being shortened to three miles there is a possibility that Princeton may enter the Poughkeepsie regatta. So far she has refused on the ground that she has had no opportunity to train for a four-mile race...
...rush of the last half-hour. Sixty-eight thousand tickets have been sold, and the handling of the crowd will tax transportation facilities on railroad and trolley lines to the limit. Traffic of all kinds in the city will of necessity, be slower than usual. The Bowl is a mile and a half from the centre of the city and ticket holders should therefore, allow at least an hour to reach the field. Entrance to the Bowl is designated by the portal number on each ticket, and ticket holders must make sure that they enter by the portal indicated. Retiring...