Word: miles
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Rockaway Hunting Club hold an amateur athletic meeting on their grounds at Cedarhurst on Saturday, May 12. The events are to be the 100 yds, 440 yds, half-mile and mile runs, the broad and running high jumps, 120 yds. hurdle race and 5 miles cross country run, open to all amateurs, and a 220 yards flat race open to college under-graduates only. The H. A. A. has considered the advisability of sending on a team. It has resulted in giving the captain of the Mott Haven team power to send from one to six men according...
...which Columbia will enter men or crews. The races will be rowed in the following order: Junior singles, senior singles, double sculls, pair-oared gigs, four-oared gigs, four-oared barges, junior four-oared shells, senior four-oared shells, eightoared shells. These will be over the regular one-mile course. The last race will be between eight-oared shells over a two-mile course for the Harlem...
...mile run will undoubtedly be taken by Harmer, '90. The second place lies between Davenport, Harvard, and Lloyd, '91, Yale...
...hurdle race has been one of our sure events for several years; this year it promises to be very close between Berger, '88 S., and Mapes, of Columbia. The latter has improved wonderfully since last year. The mile walk will be won by Wright, of Harvard, if Lange, of Columbia, is abroad at the time of the games...
...good opportunity for some Yale man to take at least second place in, and it is desired by the athletic management that more men train for the hurdle race. As will be seen, our strongest efforts should be devoted to the 220-yards dash and hurdle, to the half-mile run and the tug-of-war. The contest for the cup seems to be between the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia and Yale.- Yale News...