Word: run
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...sporting editor authorizes us to say that, in view of the prompt manner in which the table at Morgan's has subscribed for a cup, he will guarantee $15 more for a mile-run. Now, won't the Advocate attend to the mile-walk, the Lampoon to the hurdle-race, and some of the club tables to the hundred-yards, two-mile run, broad jump, high jump...
...very rich, and we never have been properly represented at these sports, it take some decided steps in the matter. Let it hold a meeting on Holmes Field (where a very good fifth-mile track can be made) on May 15; let the winners of the mile-run, mile-walk, quarter-mile, half-mile, hurdles, and 100-yards be sent to Mott Haven on condition of their beating a certain time, and let the Association pay their expenses, - a thing it is well able to do. We suggest as good trial times: mile-run, 4 min. 55 sec.; mile-walk...
Oxford-Cambridge Athletic Sports, London, April 12. - 100-yards, E. C. Trepplin, Oxford, 10 1/5 sec.; high jump, G. B. Blathwayt, Cambridge (5 ft. 8 in.); 120-yards hurdles, S. Palmer, Cambridge, 16 2/5 sec.; quarter-mile, W. H. Churchill, Cambridge, 51 4/5 sec.; one-mile run, D. L. Clarke, Oxford, 4 min. 31 2/5 sec.; wide jump, C. M. Kemp, Oxford (22 ft. 2 3/4 in.); three-mile run, A. Goodwin, Oxford...
London Athletic Club, 2d Spring Meeting, March 30. - Races run in rain, wind, and snow. Ten-mile challenge cup, J. Gibb (holder), 55 min. 34 sec.; 100-yards handicap, C. Y. Bedford (5 1/2 yards), 10 sec.; 220-yards handicap, C. C. Clark (8 yards), 22 8/5 sec.; 120-yards hurdles, H. Allan (penalized 11 yards), 18 3/5 sec.; 300-yards handicap, C. C. Clark (15 yards), 32 4/5 sec.; 600-yards handicap, F. B. Montague (25 yards), 1 min. 15 1/5 sec.; four-mile steeplechase handicap, G. Mawby (scratch), 25 min. 35 sec.; 1,000-yards handicap, N. Turner...
...feeling was succeeded by a burning sensation, for the acid was beginning to eat into my flesh. Thoughts of the Inquisition, of martyrs, and of a four-column article in the local paper upon my untimely death flashed through my mind, and I dropped the bundle and began to run. I dashed up the stairs and into the room. Nell was there, waiting patiently for me. "Quick!" I yelled; "the ammonia." She handed it, and I poured the whole into the remnants of my pocket. There was an explosion, a woman's scream, a blinding smoke. When this smoke cleared...