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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...third regiments, N. G. S. N. Y. (teams of 6 men). Each team shall be allowed two substitutes. Saturday, at 1 o'clock, P. M., there will be a four-hour race, go as you please, open to any amateur who has never, in an open race, beaten 8 min. 30 sec. in a mile walk, or 5 min. 40 sec. in a mile run. No entry will be received unless accompanied with the fee. Entrance-fee, for each event, other than the tugs-of-war, $ 1; tugs-of-war, for each team, $ 5. Entries close March...
...quiet that nothing of interest can be said or written. The New York Athletic Club held two days' sport at Gilmore's Garden, New York, but the times made were poor, and the races devoid of any particular interest. The mile-run was won in 4 min. 52 1/2 sec. (we think) by a man with 58 yards' start, which would make him about as good as 5 min. or 5 min. 2 sec., for the full distance. The times made in the bicycle race were very poor, one two-mile heat being run in worse than 11 minutes...
Cambridge University, November 20. - H. J. L. Evans, 5 yards start, won the half-mile handicap in 2 min. 1/5 sec., which would be better than 2 min. 1 sec. for the full distance. W. H. Churchill, scratch, won the strangers' quarter-mile handicap...
ATHLETICS.Mr. H. E. Armstrong, of the Law School, last week notified the President of the H. A. A. of his intention to attempt to walk for the cup offered by the editor of this column, to any one walking a mile in 7 min. 40 sec. Tuesday of this week was the day appointed for the trial, but the weather was stormy and the track heavy. At a meeting of the H. A. A. it was voted that the cup should be competed for only on some regular field-day of the Association. This step was taken as a matter...
...editor of this column will give a cup, valued at $25, to any man who will run one mile in 4 min. 50 sec. or better, or who will walk one mile in 7 min. 40 sec. or better, or to any man who can beat the best time on record in this college for a run of three miles. These offers to remain open until the end of next June. Any man intending to make one of these trials to give ten days' notice to the Vice-President of the H. A. A. These offers are made solely...