Word: miles
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yale has the following men in college now who won 1st and second place in the inter collegiate games last May: 100 yards, C. H. Sherrill, '89, 2nd place. Putting the shot, A. B. Coxe, '87, 1st place. 1-4-mile run, A. Coit, '89, 2nd place. 120 yards hurdle, W. H. Ludington, '87, 1st place. Pole vault, T. G. Shearman, '89, 2nd place. 2 mile bicycle race, J. C. Kulp, '87, 2nd. Throwing the hammer, A. B. Coxe, '87, 1st. In fact the only valuable man they lose is F. R. Smith, '86, who won the 1-2 mile...
...fall a number of candidates were got together, and since then the men have been working hard and faith fully. During the winter the work has been very much as it is with us, - four or five hundred strokes on the rowing machines, and a brisk run of a mile or two, being the daily exercise. As spring came on, and the men began to row on the water, the need of a good coach became more and more apparent. A meeting of boating men was accordingly held, and it was decided to employ Chainey, an English Coach...
...Gale's Ferry, near the other crews, but no place could be found, so that the crew were obliged to put up at the Crocker House, where they now are. The men hardly look like a university crew, and one would scarcely think them equal to a four mile race. Yesterday afternoon they took a time row over the course, followed by their coach, Ellis Ward, in the launch. They row quite smoothly, but lack life and staying power...
...usually try a "timer," or take a very long, slow pull. Speaking of "timers," it may be of interest to mention what time is usually made for various distances. Anywhere from twenty to twenty-five minutes is about the average time made by college crews for a four-mile race, - although last year Harvard's time was even more than this, - but it must be borne in mind that on that day the conditions of the course were especially unfavorable. For a two mile contest from ten to twelve minutes, is good time. Two years ago the Columbia freshmen...
This afternoon your correspondent made a little visit to the Columbia quarters, where he was very courteously received by Capt. Meikleham. The house where the men live is a large white building, with several ells, standing about half a mile beyond the Harvard quarters up the river. The 'varsity and part of the freshman crew occupy the house together, while the rest of the '89 men live in a little cottage directly across the the way. As you enter the house, across the little sheltered piazza, you come first into the parlor, or rather lounging room, where the men spend...