Word: track
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last five or six days the running track has been in good condition and has been used for practice by the Mott Haven candidates. Most of the men, except a few doubtful ones from '88, are now taking light exercise daily. There are not as many sprinters as usual now at work. For the quarter and half mile runs there are about the average number of candidates, and an unusually large number of mile runners. There is also a good outlook for the hurdle and bicycle races. The field sports are not so flourishing as those of the track. More...
...Mott Haven men have been at work on the track this week...
...running track is being repaired. As this work is usually done during the April vacation, the Mott Have team will have nearly three weeks more out of door practice than usual...
...Track athletics promise to be better represented this year than ever, and the interest displayed in this branch of athletics is unusually great...
...spite of the time devoted to study great interest is taken in almost all branches of athletics, and fine grounds are laid out for cricket, foot-ball and tennis, as well as for track athletics, while about two miles from the school is Long Pond, which furnishes a good stretch of water for the crews. Cricket might be called the school game, and every effort is made by the masters to encourage it. Each of the two cricket clubs, "Isthmian" and "Old Hundred," have four elevens, and the school team is picked from these. Base-ball has been forbidden...