Word: races
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...unless the weather prevents. The meeting will be governed by the same rules as last year's. The list of Events includes: One Mile Run, One-Mile Walk, Running High Jump, 100-Yards Dash, Half-Mile Run, Running Long Jump, Three-Mile Run, 120-Yards Hurdle-Race, Quarter-Mile Run, and Three-Legged Race...
...YALE graduate has an elaborate article in the Springfield Republican on the management of the Yale-Harvard race. He recommends that a definite course, fixed by permanent landmarks, be decided upon, and that a standing committee of graduates and citizens be appointed to manage the whole boat-race. We object to his apparently firm conviction that this race is to be henceforth and forever rowed at Springfield; and we do not believe with him that the fact that anything is done or left undone in the annual contest between Oxford and Cambridge is in itself sufficient reason that the same...
...COMMITTEE of the H. U. B. C. will meet a committee from Yale to-morrow at New London, to decide upon the place for the race...
...walk (during which will take place running high jump, putting the shot, and running broad jump in the order named). 6. 100 yards, final heat. 7. 440 yards, trial-heats. 8. One-mile walk. 9. 220 yards, trial-heats. 10. Tug of war, trial heats. 11. 120 yards hurdle-race, trial heats. 12. 440 yards, final heat. 13. Three-mile walk (during which will take place pole leaping). 14. 120 yards hurdle-race, second trial-heats. 15. 220 yards, final heat. 16. Tug of war, final heat. 17. 120 yards hurdle-race, final heat. 18. One half-mile run. First...
...club sixes have now all appeared on the river, and from the earnestness with which they work, it is safe to predict an exciting race next month...