Word: miles
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...championship games of the National Association of Amateur Athletes will take place in New York Saturday, June 2. The entries to the games will close May 26. The games will consist of runs at 100 and 220 yards, a quarter, a half, one mile and five miles, one 3 and 7 mile walk, putting the shot, hammer throwing, hurdle race, pole leaping and bicycle races...
...purpose in view to be easily turned aside from its accomplishment. Having no athletic interest to look after or other distractions of that nature, the young women apply themselves more closely to their studies. Again, living on the hill is favorable to health and study. A run of a mile up hill to an 8 o'clock recitation after a hasty breakfast, with its concomitants of indigestion and ill-temper, is unknown to them. Sage College boasts a flourishing fraternity, or more accurately sorosity, Kappa Alpha Theta, which has chapters in several other colleges, most of them in the West...
...freshmen propose to challenge the eight of the Union Boat Club of Boston to row a mile straightaway race in eight-oared barges on the Charles river some time during the last of the next week...
...Cabot, '83, writes to Chaff of the University of Pennsylvania: "The H. U. B. C. has never intended to send a crew to Lake George. The interest of the college is centered on the four-mile eight-oared races at New London, and it is impossible to train two representative crews at the same time. We could send a four-oared crew to Lake George but it would not be our best, and we would not trust the reputation of the college...
OPEN TO ALL AMATEURS.One mile scratch, five miles scratch...