Word: sprint
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...team hit the ball better than they have for some time, and they would have had at least two more hits but for the phenomenal fielding of Merritt and Badger. In the fourth inning, Simons hit to right centre, directly between Badger and Daly. The former after a hard sprint caught the ball close to ground, while running at full speed, and prevented a two-bagger. In the seventh, Merritt caught a fast grounder by Simons directly over third base and fielded it to first before the runner...
...usual the sprint squad is the largest. The men have been practicing starts and most of them have had 100-yard time trials. The other track squads are not so far advanced. The weekly contests in the field events have proved very successful, not only through the interest aroused by the element of competition, but also on account of the opportunity afforded the coaches of watching the men in actual contest. At the end of the season prizes will be given to the men winning the most points in each of the events. First place counts 5 points, second...
...able to use the Stadium yesterday as the track had not been rolled. The distance men ran about two miles on the speedway, while the half-mile squad ran as far as the first turn in the speedway and back, a distance of about one mile. The sprint squad, the hurdlers, and the candidates for the broad and high jumps ran about a quarter of a mile on the side walk, along the side of Soldiers Field. Mr. Quinn coached all the men who are trying for the weight events...
...January 8 the trials will be held for the class relay teams which will compete in the class swimming races on January 10. Besides the class races on this date there will be an exhibition game of water polo between the first and second teams and also several short sprint races. There will be six men on each relay team, and every man will swim four lengths of the tank. It is planned to give cups to the members of the winning team...
...mile run A. King 1L. and R. H. Bollard '05 ran a pretty race, King finally winning by a few yards in 10 m., 9 s. Bollard was a second behind him. In the 880-yard run F. S. Buffum '04 barely defeated S. Curtis '05 by a hard sprint on the home stretch...