Word: miles
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...more managed to mount, and the race was finally won by one of those who had fallen, in very slow time. Such a fiasco must not happen next year, yet there will be a greater number of starters than this year, and the only way to run a two mile race will be in two or more heats, and a final heat. But a race run in heats is always a slow affair and of small satisfaction to the spectators, who always think the winner of a heat is the winner of the race. But there...
There is a rumor afloat that there is to enter the mile run at the freshman meeting a man who has previously made a record...
...George beat W. Snook on Saturday, easily making the mile in 4:26 1-4. George failed to beat his record made last week of 4:19 3-5, the best on record for an amateur. The professional best on record is 4:16 1-5 made by Cummins...
Several cases of typhoid fever, resulting from bad drainage, have occurred at Amherst. George and Snook run their one mile match today, on the Lillie bridge grounds, London, England...
...Record offers a silver cup of the value of fifty dollars as a prize in the half-mile run. The winner of the cup this fall will have his name engraved upon it, and he will hold the cup until the spring games. The cup will be contended for at every meeting of the Athletic Association, and the names of the successive winners engraved upon it. The cup mast be won three times to become the absolute property of the winner.-[Yale Record...