Word: run
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Madison Square Garden to commemorate the second year of its formation. All the events are open to amateurs, and three prizes will be awarded in each event. The following events will be contested: 75-yards dash, 220-yards dash, 440-yards dash, half-mile run, mile run, mile walk, two-mile bicycle race, 200-yards hurdle race, pole vault, standing broad jump, running high jump, putting the 24-lb. shot and throwing the 56-lb. weight. The entrance fee will be one dollar in each event...
...complaint that has been made in past years again comes to our notice. It is that men taking their afternoon exercise run on Brattle and Craigie streets as well as on North Avenue. North Avenue for several years has been the customary place for men running alone or in teams to take their exercise. Cambridge people have given their tacit consent to this arrangement, and those who do not want to meet the men running can generally avoid North Avenue in the late afternoon. When, however, other Cambridge streets are used indiscriminately this mutual understanding is violated by us. Cambridge...
...four hundred entries have been received, including champions in all events from England, Ireland, Canada and the United States. There are also a number of college champions among the entries. Among the most prominent athletes who are expected to take part, are as follows: In the one mile handicap run, George and Conneff; in the quartermile handicap, Banks and Estes; in the sixty-yards handicap, Weston and Copeland; in the two hundred and fifty-yards hurdle handicap, Mapes of Columbia College, and Copeland. Moffat, the well-known Canadian runner will meet Phibbs, the Irish champion in the half-mile run...
There will be about sixty suites of rooms on five floors, some forty-five of which will be double rooms and the remaining fifteen single. Each suite will run through from the front to the back of the building, so that every man will have windows opening on the outside, thus avoiding all dark bedrooms. Each suite will be fitted with steam in addition to a fireplace, and will have a bathroom attached. It has not been fully decided whether or not to put hot and cold water into the bathrooms, but it will probably be done...
...Yale athletic association will hold a cross country run of about ten miles next Saturday. A trail will be laid beforehand, and judges will be stationed along the route to see that no one cuts off any distance. The first man in will receive a handsome cup, and prizes will also be given to the second and third...