Word: spurting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Even in the last inning Yale failed to make her customary spurt, and the outs were one, two, three in order. Kedzie went out on three strikes. Murphy hit a high fly to Highlands, and Beall ended the game on a grounder, Cook to Dickinson...
...bicycle race was one of the prettiest races of the afternoon. Fenner, of Worcester Academy, who held the record in this event, failed even to get a place. A. B. Holmes, Hopkinson's, won after making a fine spurt on the last lap, in 2 minutes, 54 2-5 seconds, breaking the previous record of 3 minutes, 1 2-5 seconds. Walker, C. H. S., pressed him hard for second place, with Wheelock Dalzell third...
...second. The order was the same at the end of the half mile, with C. W. Norton, Hopkinson's, in third place. On the third lap Norton pulled ahead to first place and set the pace for Munro and McLaughlin. On the last lap McLaughlin made a beautiful spurt and finished first in 7 minutes, 57 3-5 seconds, with Norton second, and Munro third...
...Connolly, M. A. C. was second and P. W. Davis '93 third. The second heat was much faster. P. J. Berlo, M. A. C. finished first with G. F. Taylor, Springfield B. C. second. Time 2 m. 44 1-5 s. The final heat ended in a desperate spurt in which Berlo won in 2 m. 47 3-5 s. Taylor was second with Tyler third...
...mile walk was Harvard's, first, last and all the time, - although for an instant an ephemeral hope was born in Yale men's breasts by a sudden spurt of Wright's in the fourth lap. He had hardly gotten the lead when he fell from exhaustion and Endicott, Bardeen and Norton of Harvard finished in the order named - the tie which the judges declared to have been between Endicott and Bardeen being given to the former by the latter. Pierson of Yale was a hopeless and indisputable last