Word: miles
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...George, the English amateur pedestrian champion, recently tried to break the one mile record...
EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON :-During the past week the question has been raised in your columns several times, editorially and in correspondence-who is the best man to send to New Haven next year to represent Harvard in the mile walk? The winner in last Saturday's race and a gentleman who did not walk this fall have both had their supporters, but not a word has been said for the plucky freshman who made nearly or quite as good time in that race as the victorious senior. Shattuck, so far as is known, never walked a race in his life...
...generally known that Georges' time for the mile in his last race with Snook, 4.26 1-4, was made on a grass track. On this sort of a track we believe this time is the fastest on record...
...Hendee, beat A. H. Robinson in a ten mile bicycle race on Saturday. The track was rough so that the time was very slow...
...annual sports of the Westminister school in England, a youth under sixteen years of age ran a quarter of a mile in 59 4-5 seconds...