Word: runners
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yale has new candidates for the sprints and also half-mile and bicycle race. What is now wanted is a mile runner, a walker, one to put the shot and a jumper...
...double or triple play after a third strike, as all the batsmen has to do after three strikes have been called on him is to stand still and not run to first base, by doing which the umpire is required to decide him out, and thereby the base-runners cease to be obliged to leave the bases from being forced out by the striker's becoming a base-runner after the third strike has been called. It is left optional with a base-runner, obliged to return to a base on a foul ball, to run or walk back...
Myers when going at full speed is a model runner, both in the pose of the body and the way in which the limbs work, for he carries the head well back, the chest advanced, and the body straight on the hips, while the legs are swung straight ahead and come down on the ground with a directness that enables him to use their muscular force to the fullest extent. He is a far better type of a runner than his English rival, for the latter often extends his body forward, and uses his limbs much as the steamboats...
...Marseillaise," while from the other end of the field thundered the chorus of "Yankee Doodle." A terrific crash followed, as the opposing ranks met in the struggle; screams of grief, shouts of triumph, filled the air, while the strains of "Nearer, My God, to Thee," proceeding from an injured runner, clashed with the "Babies on Our Block." By this time the whole air resounded with a wondrous pot-pourri, a strange medley of songs, hymns, anthems, curses, utterly regardless of time or place, each player translating into sound the overwhelming passion of his soul. But this sublimity could not sustain...
...freshmen are to be congratulated upon the success of the meeting Wednesday. The events as a rule were well filled and sharply contested. They have in Mr. Baker a phenomenal runner who will probably do much to bring credit upon his class in both the university and inter-collegiate games. Several other runners also showed up well, and with training will make hard men to beat. The jumping was very fair, although there is much room for improvement in this sport. It is to be hoped that all of the men who took part in this first meeting, as well...