Word: racing
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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...
...date of the Bicycle Club road race has been changed from April 27 to April 24, because of the nearness of the class athletic meeting...
...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...
...Kolb, University of Pennsylvania, last year's winner of the bicycle race, will enter the event this year, but may be beaten by Davis, '91, of Harvard...
...compete in the latter event, he would probably be the winner; otherwise, Hunt, L. S., may win. Columbia has nearly the same tug-of-war team that she had last year, but several of the other colleges have much better teams than formerly. In the 220-yard's hurdle race the first place will probably fall to Mapes, of Columbia, but since the event is a new one, it is quite likely that some new man may win it. This is an event that there is a good opportunity for some Yale man to take at least second place...