Word: quartered
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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...
...following team from Princeton, under Frank Dole as trainer, is preparing for the coming inter-collegiate contest: O. Harriman, Jr., '83, pole vault and running high jump, with records of 9 ft. 9 in. and 5 ft. 7 3/4 in. respectively; C. G. Wilson, '83, quarter mile run; F. L. Coolidge, '84, quarter and half mile runs; A. G. Fell, '84, running high and broad jumps; B. W. McIntosh, '84, 100 and 220 yds. dashes and 120 yds. hurdle; H. P. Toler, '85, the phenomenal pole vaulter, who advanced from...
...Asher was a notable winner at the sports of Brasenose College, Oxford University, England, held March 7. He won the running high jump at 5 feet. 2 inches; the running long jump at 20 feet, the quarter-mile run in 57 2-5 seconds, by two yards, and the hurdle race in 20 2-5 seconds...
...tallest stewards in the association were in demand. After three good tries Mandell failed at 9 feet. At 9 ft. Soren cleared the bar by several inches, causing great excitement. The applause was prolonged for some time. The bar was then put at 9 ft. 9 in., a quarter of an inch above the record; at this height Soren baulked at the first attempt, but his pole knocked off the bar. Considerable laughter was caused by the frantic efforts of the stewards to put the bar in place. On the third try the bar was cleared, but in falling...
...years to the college winning the most events at the inter-collegiate meetings. In '76 it was won by Princeton, in '77, '78 and '79 by Columbia and in '80, '81 and '82 by Harvard. The winners of the meeting in 1882 were Goodwin, '84, one-half and one-quarter mile runs; Morison, mile run; Norton, 2-mile bicycle race, and Soren, running high jump and pole leaping. Mr. Lowell stated that Yale and Columbia were making great efforts to win the cup this year, but that the Harvard association were ready to do their best to retain it. After...