Word: miles
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Windle, of the New York Athletic club, who has entered for the quarter-mile, mile, and two miles, at the coming race-meet of the Harvard Bicycle club, is the 1888 amateur champion of America...
Ninety: 2-mile bicycle race-The event was contested by C. W. Spencer, who rode a star bicycle, and E. F. Rogers, on a safety machine. Spencer took the lead and made the first mile in 3 minutes, 36 seconds. At the beginning of the last half-mile, Rogers passed Spencer and won easily in 7 minutes, 1-4 seconds...
Ninety-one: Two-mile bicycle race-The competitors were R. H. Davis and K. Brown; Davis soon took the lead with Brown only a few feet behind. The same relative positions were maintained until the home stretch was reached, when Brown made a desperate effort to overtake Davis, but did not succeed, and Davis won in 6 minutes, 47 3-5 seconds. Davis' time for the first mile was 3 minutes, 32 seconds...
...class games of the Harvard Athletic Association are to be held on Thursday, May 2, at 4 o'clock. The events will be as follows: 100, 220, 440, 880 yards, and one-mile runs; 120 and 220-yards hurdle race; two-mile bicycle race; mile walk; putting the shot; throwing the hammer, running broad jump, running high jump and pole vault. Entries cannot be made later than 10 o'clock Wednesday evening, May 1st, but up to that time they may be left at 9 Linden street, or sent to Mr. Jacob Wendell, Jr., secretary of the association...
Columbia expects to win the following events at the Mott Haven Intercollegiate contests: The tug of-war, Mapes in the hurdle race and broad jump, Banks in the quarter, McIlvaine or Collis in the mile walk, and Hornbostle or Vosburg in the mile run, with a number of seconds...