Word: miles
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harrington of Salem rode last Monday on his bicycle 100 miles in 9 hours 58 minutes. He only stopped 25 minutes in all and but for the gale would have broken the 100 mile record...
...five mile race between Taylor and Delaney is being arranged...
...trying for the University crew took a ten-mile pull Saturday.[Yale News...
...following is a sample of how they do things in Manitoba: "A ten mile race was run here yesterday by George Irvine and Little Plum, son of the Chief of the Blackfeet. A number of fouls occurred, and finally Irvine knocked the Indian down, and severely injured him by stamping on his wrist with spiked shoes. Nevertheless, the Indian regained his feet and pluckily renewed the race, winning by five yards in fifty-five minutes...
...Snook struggled gamely, and at one time managed to get within a yard or so of the leader, George immediately went away again, and won, full of running, by a dozen yards. The times for the intermediate distances, as also for the full journey, were respectively as follow: Quarter mile, 1m. 5s; half mile, 2m. 13 4-5s,; 1,000 yards, 2m. 31 3-5s.; three quarters of a mile, 3m. 24 2-5s.; 1,500 yards, 3m. 51 4-5s.; mile...