Word: miles
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...varsity crew pulled a trial race with the freshman crew on Wednesday last, and beat them easily by three lengths at the end of a half mile...
...Yale College Bicycle Club will hold a meeting at Hamilton Park, New Haven, on next Friday and Saturday. Hendee, American champion; Hamilton, college champion; Hunter, winner of the Pope cup; Wait, Parsons, Webber, and Allston are among the entries. The leading features of the first day will be the mile tandem race by Palmer and Thompson; Hendee's endeavor to beat the world's record for one mile, and the twenty mile Pope cup race. On the second day will be run the twenty five mile L. A. W. championship of America. Part of the proceeds will be devoted...
...WILLIAMS.SINGLE SCULL RACES assigned for the first week-in June, will take place at 4.30 Saturday afternoon, June 6. The distance to be rowed over will be one mile. The starting point will be a mile up the river from the Union Boat House, the finish at the Union Boat House. Entrance fee, one dollar, to be paid to the treasurer, W. R. Wilson, 9 Linden Street, before 7 P. M. Friday, June...
...bicycle tournament at Springfield on Saturday was very interesting. Hendee lowered the record for the halfmile to 34 2 5 seconds; Brown and Miller, that of the mile tandem race...
After the race on Saturday the probabilities are that the men will be taken at once to New london, where, under the guidance of Jasper Goodwin, they will be got into proper shape for the race. The work then will be hard, the four-mile course having to be covered at least twice a day, besides the running, walking and indoor work. There will be no system of diet, the men being given as much as they want of plain, substantial food. The stroke rowed by the Columbias is long and steady, with a sharp, wuick recovery, which will send...