Word: timed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Hundred-Yards Dash, Final Heat. - Cowdin, Conant, Bacon, and Holmes. Won by Bacon; time, 10 3/4 sec. Cowdin was a very close second...
...Mile Run. - Entries : J. L. Lamson, '80, C. S. Hanks, '79, G. H. Davis, '79, J. W. Mitchell, '79. Winner, Hanks; time, 5 min. 2 1/2 sec. Mitchell won second place from Lamson by two feet...
Bicycle Race (3 miles). - L. Foster, '81, C. A. Parker, '80, F. E. Cabot, '80, A. S. Tubbs, '79, F. Sharon, '80. Foster dropped out at the end of the first mile, and Tubbs and Sharon took no part in the race. First mile (time, 4 min. 4 sec.) Parker ten yards ahead. Second mile (time, 4 min. 17 sec.), Cabot ahead. Third mile, and the race won by Parker, one length ahead. Total time...
...time made by R. Bacon in the quarter-mile run equals the best amateur time made in America; and when it is taken into consideration that the track was heavy and the wind was blowing in the face of the contestants, the records are very satisfactory and encouraging...
...idea of having a Meeting was entirely given up, but the offers of different gentlemen to give handsome cups proved an inducement to men to train, and in consequence the starters in the different events were, as a whole, more nearly "fit" than they have ever been before. The time made in the Hundred-Yard Dash and Quarter-Mile Run was most excellent, - remarkable when we consider that it was made on a track of loose dirt, instead of a cinder path. The Bicycle Race produced capital sport, every inch of the three miles being closely contested...