Word: run
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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About thirty candidates for the Columbia freshman crew began training Wednesday at the gymnasium of the Berkeley school. After some preliminary exercise on the chest weights and a short run, the men were placed on the rowing machines under the supervision of E. Klapp, captain of the 'varsity crew. The candidates will continue training in the gymnasium until the first of April, when they will begin practice on the Harlem. W. Peet will coach them, and they will keep to barges until they have learned the stroke. The average age of the candidates is 18 years, the average height...
...winners of the following events will be entitled to go to Europe with the international team of the National Association of Amateur Athletes on their 1889 tour: One hundred yards, 400 yards, half-mile, mile, and four-mile runs; 120-yards hurdle race, putting the shot, pole vaulting, throwing the hammer, running high and broad jumps, and seven-mile walks, also two-mile steeple-chase, and on May 20, a ten mile run...
...electric cars will run from Harvard Square to the West Boston bridge in fifteen minutes, eight minutes less than is required at present...
...part in games to be organized specially for it. To select members of the team, a series of games will be held at the grounds of the Manhattan Athletic Club on May 18, which will include all kinds of out-door sports and on May 20th a ten-mile run will take place. These meetings will be open to all amateur athletes in the United States and Canada. The team will take part in limited handicap meetings in England, Ireland, and on the continent, and also will compete in all championship meetings held in those countries. The expenses...
Charles H. Sherrill, the Yale sprinter, is now lying dangerously ill at his home in Washington, and his attending physicians say that even should he recover he will never be able to run again...