Word: miles
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...five-mile professional bicycle championship of England was won by R. Howell; time, 14.28, thus beating the record...
George M. Hendee, the bicycle champion, will ride a 10 mile race with A. H. Robinson of England next Saturday. Mr. Hendee proposes to break, if he can, the 10 miles record, 31 m. 22 1-2s., made by Burnham at New Haven...
...Mott Haven on Saturday, at the games of the New York Athletic Club, F. B. Murray of the Williamsburg Athletic Club broke the amateur record in the mile walk, his time being...
...correspondent on the subject of the mile walk entirely misunderstood our remarks on the contest of Saturday last. While we still insist that the time made by the handicapped man was poor, we do not wish to convey the impression that he is not a proper man to train for the event. Yale records will hardly do as a standard of comparison, as Yale is notoriously backward in the way of field athletics. What we meant to imply was that as our prospects for the event are not particularly encouraging, it would be well for the association to train...
...Though heavily handicapped he won in both, time 49 3-5 and 1:58. F. L. Coolidge, Princeton, was second in the half off the 30 yards mark. Bueckberner threw the 56 pound weight 25ft. 11-2in., thus beating the record, and F. P. Murray walked a mile in the best time on record in the world for amateurs, 6:29 3-5. L. Stearns, Princeton, won a closely contested bicycle race in 6:59 for two miles...