Word: track
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...great many impromptu races are run on the track every afternoon by the candidates for the Mott Haven team...
...bicyclers in training for the Mott Haven team rode for the first time on the track last Tuesday...
...only these sports, but track athletics, tennis, lacrosse and polo, show the influence of the mind in elevation of sports to a higher lev And we may confidently expect to we improvements continue in them unceasingly, until colleges and athleacsno longer exist...
About twenty of the men who are trying for the Mott Haven team have been assiduously at work under Mr. Lathrop's guidance, practising running, jumping, throwing the hammer, putting the shot, etc. The track has not been in good condition, so that no very good records have been made. A top dressing of loam and cinders to the depth of an inch has been put on the track, and it will be two or three days before it will be in condition for running, and probably a fortnight before bicyclists can venture on it. Prof. Shaler says that Holmes...
...Lathrop has measured accurately the distance on North Avenue, from 220 yards up to 3-4 mile. He times the runners of the H. A. A. every afternoon on this improvised track...