Word: miles
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...every jump on the I. C. A. A. programme: running high, running broad, standing high, standing broad and pole vault, holding the best amateur record in the world for the standing high jump. Mr. G. B. Morison has run in nearly every athletic and gymnastic meeting while he was mile run twice in the I. C. A. A. meetings and the general excellence prize for gymnastics three years. Mr. C. H. Kip was beaten in throwing the hammer in the spring of 1880 making a record of 58 ft., 8 in. In 1882 he wonsecond prize...
During the year our athletes have broken three of the Harvard and, at the same times, of the Intercollegiate records. Mr. Kip made the splendid record of 88 ft., 11 in., in throwing the hammer at the Intercollegiate meeting. Mr. Goodwin again lowered his half-mile record at our spring meeting making the distance in 2 min., 4-5 sec. Mr. Athkinson made record of 5 ft., 8 1-2 in., at the I. C. A. A. meeting. Mr. Atkinson really jumped 5 ft., by an amateur in America but the stupidity of one of the judges cost...
...carried down with her. Rupert Sargent had secured a life preserver, which he hastily adjusted to himself, but being dressed and finding the life preserver almost worthless from its flimsy character, it was difficult for him to make much headway. He was not over three-quarters of a mile from the main land, and if he determined to swim to the shore the wind and tide were against him; so he was obliged to abandon the attempt and strike out for the rocks known as the Hen and Chickens reef although they were in a very poor place for refuge...
Between 10 and 11 o'clock the schooner Alice M. Ridgeway, Captain Snow, from New Bedford, passed between the rock on which he was standing and Gooseberry neck. She was at the nearest point, from a quarter to half a mile away from him. Rupert made all the signals of distress that he could in his exhausted condition and Captain Snow saw them. But the Ridgeway had a deck load of empty barrels which the captain says would have been jeopardized if he attempted to lay to and lower a boat. And he passed on without any attempt to render...
...Dartmonth field sports on Wednesday, the following records were made: hundred yards dash, 10 3-4 seconds; two hundred and twenty yards dash, 28 seconds; quarter mile run, 56 1-4 seconds; mile run, 5 minutes, 17 1-4 seconds ; hurdles, 18 1-4 seconds ; running high jump, 4 feet 11 inches ; pole vault, 8 feet 8 inches, (best Dartmouth record) and throwing the base ball, 324 feet...