Word: track
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...glad to see that the intercollegiate games are to be held on the Berkeley track this year. This track is one of the best in the country and is especially favorable to fast time. The games are now but little more than a week off, the entries having already closed...
...intercollegiate games will be held this year May 25 on the Berkeley oval track at Morris Dock, seventeen minutes ride from the 42d street station. The Berkeley track is one of the best in the country, being especially fast for bicycles, with its long dished up ellipse curves. It is situated on a high hill very near the Hudson. The grounds themselves are very attractive; as you enter, on the right is a high bank on the side of which the grand stand is situated. Gradually sloping upward from the grand stand is a large grove of forest trees...
...good day there is no reason why the best of records should not be made on this track, and it is extremely unfortunate for Harvard that some of her best material cannot be induced to enter again this year in the events in which they succeeded in coming in first in previous years...
...Bicycle Race-Meet, held Saturday on the Holmes field track, was successful in every respect. The events were well contested and exciting. The weather was fine and the track in very good condition. The track is four laps to a mile and the turns are rather sharp for bicycling, but under the circumstances some of the events were very fast. The meeting was well managed and the events passed off smoothly, and without delay...
Then followed the mile walk for which C. T. R. Bates, '92, and J. E. Howe, '90. were the only entries. Bates had the inside track and took the lead. The men kept close together for the first lap. On the second lap Howe passed Bates and made the first half mile in 3 minutes 21 seconds, with Bates twenty feet behind him. Howe kept slowly increasing his lead and in spite of a determined spurt by Bates, Howe won by about fifty feet in 7 minutes 14 1-5 seconds...