Word: miles
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...champion college sprinter, positively declines to enter this year. Hamilton, '86, the easy winner of the bicycle race at last year's games, also holds himself severely aloof from the track, and now says nothing can induce him to enter. Meredith and Mitchell, the Scientific School experts at the mile walk and half mile run, respectively, have graduated from college, and ponderous A. B. Coxe, of the junior class is the only probable "first" man left to hold up Yale's end. That Mr. Coxe will do this in the hammer-throwing is pretty generally acknowledged, and there are many...
...trained himself down, so that he can now run 440 yards in 56 seconds. This is about five seconds slower than will suffice for him to win first place. F. R. Smith. '86, and L. Bradner, Jr., '89, are about the only men now working at the half-mile run. Both get around the track at about a 2.08 gait. It is just seven and one-fifth seconds slower than the inter-collegiate record, however...
...Lane, '88, F. D. Leffingwell, '87, and L. W. Bond, S. S. S., '86, think they have sufficient wind to run a mile. Honors are about easy between them, though Lane is said to have bested...
...Davison, S. S. S., '88, is a good all around mile walker, and is pretty well assured of a place in this event at the games. Whether this place will be first or second it is impossible to tell at present. A pretty straight tip from one inside is that Davison is continually beating his own record, and that great things may be expected of him after a few weeks' skillful training and handling...
...Kulp, S. S. S., '87, is the sole aspirant for bicycle fame in the two-mile race at the games. He is a fair rider, but not exactly the man a good judge would pick out for a winner...