Word: runners
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yeomans, the champion mile runner of the N. Y. A. A. C., was here on Saturday. He said that their new gymnasium was entirely eclipsed by our own, and that he had no idea that ours was so handsome. He says he considers it the finest gymnasium in America...
...electrical paper reports a new device for aiding base ball umpires in their arduous duties, An underground wire forms a circuit with all the bases. When the base runner touches the plate, an electric bell rings in a small tower near the umpire's position. It is to be hoped that this device will be fully tested this season, and, if found useful, adopted all over the country. It will be a grand thing if, in course of time, an umpire can have all his duties performed by electricity; and if the inventor of this noble plan could only find...
...first time in a number of years Trinity will this spring send several men to Mott Haven. She has one short distance runner who, it is claimed, is nearly, if not quite. the equal of Brooks and Baker."-[Ex. We are glad to hear it.-[Trinity Tablet...
...listen to his discourses upon matters of muscular interest. Somehow or other he always seemed to know more about these things than any of us; and he was inspired by a strenuous missionary spirit, persuasive enough almost to make an oarsman out of a humpback, or a sprint-runner out of a cripple...
...first time in a number of years Trinity will this spring send several men to Mott Haven. She has one short distance runner who, it is claimed is nearly, if not quite, the equal of Brooks and Baker...