Word: miles
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...otherwise the meeting will be held at Mott Haven. The list of events on last year's programme was then read, and unless objection was made to any event it stood as last year. The following is the list: 100 yards dash, 220 yards, 440 yards, 880 yards, 1 mile run, 1 mile walk, 120 yards hurdles, running high jump, running broad jump, pole vault, shot, hammer, 2 mile bicycle race, tug-of-war. Harvard moved that the tug-of-war be removed from the programme; (1) because it is a great expense for colleges at a distance to send...
...spring. This announcement will be read with interest by all those interested in bicycling, and it seems to us that such meetings are very desirable. Apart from the direct benefit it will do bicycling at Harvard it will remove from the Athletic Association the inconvenience of having the two-mile race and the practice for it on the track at Jarvis. We understand that arrangements have been made so that those entering the races can practice at Beacon Park...
Captain Hull of the Yale crew and some of the men have staked out a mile course on Lake Whitney for rowing next spring. It is said to be a long time since a university crew has used that body of water...
...bicycle tournament to be held in the Institute Fair building, Boston, on Thursday, Feb. 1. Prince and Frye will start from scratch in a ten-mile handicap race, in which Rollinson will receive 30s. and Harrison 40s. start, and others according to their abilities...
...Wells, president of the Oxford University Athletic Club, England, on Dec. 18, took his Bachelor's degree. Last season he beat W. G. George off the mark at the Exeter sports in a half-mile race, and later on in the University sports he defeated Eyre by eight yards...