Word: track
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...main hall consists of a large room 90x57, which will be devoted to class exercises and general drills. Adjoining this room is a smaller, 27x12, which is filled with special apparatus, such as rowing machines, health-lifts, etc. Around the main hall, supported on iron columns, runs the track, twenty-five laps of which make a mile, and the corners can be raised or lowered for fast or slow running, as desired. Under the track, as in the Harvard gymnasium, the greater part of the apparatus will be placed, costing in all about...
...trouble any of the riders. The benches were well filled, over 400 spectators being present when the first race was called. Among the spectators were delegations of wheelmen from all the principal clubs in the vicinity, who stacked their machines beneath the willows at the eastern end of the track and behind the long rows of seats...
...place, with Edgerly, who had passed Millard, second. Edgerly, Matthewson and Millard came by the line on the ninth lap in the order named, and very closely bunched. On the completion of this lap Matthewson game up the race, though he did not dismount, and rode slowly around the track. The tenth lap was run with Edgerly, Millard and Norcross in the lead, in the order named. Just after crossing the line on the eleventh lap Edgerly took a severe header, which allowed the other two contestants to pass him, and also put renewed life into Matthewson, who had given...
This race was the most exciting event of the day. The time of both Hendee and Frazier beats the record, 2m. 54 3-4s., and is conclusive proof of the excellence of our track...
...called promptly at 3 P. M., and will be governed by the following rules: "Contestants will be notified before each event and must be on their marks promptly, or the event will be started without them." "Only club officials and members of the press will be allowed inside the track." "A bell will be rung at the beginning of the last lap." "No coaching the contestants allowed."No professional bicycle rider will be allowed to start any contestant." "Bicycle Union and League rules to govern the meeting." The entries include many names of note in bicycling circles, both among college...