Word: miles
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...annual games of the Yale Athletic association were held Tuesday afternoon on the Yale field. Three Yale records were broken at this meeting, the half-mile record of 2 minutes, 3 2-5 seconds being lowered to 2 minutes, and 3 seconds, and that of the two-mile bicycle race froce from 6 minutes, 24 2-5 seconds, to 6 minutes, 21 seconds. In the pole vault, Shearman, '89, instead of lowering the record, raised it from 10 feet, 3 5-8 inces, to 10 feet, 5 inches. Perfect weather and a good track combined to make the meeting...
...mile bicycle race-F. A. Clark '89; time, 6 minutes, 21 seconds; A. F. Kountze '91, a close second. The men were bunched throughout and all of the contestants finished inside of the Yale record...
...mile run-W. Harmar '90, time 4 minutes, 41 4-5 seconds; won easily; J. P. Lloyd, Jr., '91, second...
...mile walk-R. M. Raymond '91, time 7 minutes, 40 seconds...
...Half-mile run-E. B. Hinckley '89, time 2 minutes, 3 seconds; E. P. Holton '90, second by two inches. The finish was very exciting. Hinckley ran the first quarter in 58 seconds, taking a lead of twenty yards, but on the home stretch he tired badly, and Holton would have beaten him out in two strides further...