Word: track
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...same track in New York is not always selected for the meets of the Inter-collegiate Athletic Association, a description of the different tracks used, and their advantages, is given in the last number of the Amateur A-athlete. The track where the games were held, previous to the spring of '82, was the oldest in New York, that of the N. Y. A. C., at Mott Haven. From the number of years the games were held there, and the uniqueness of the name, the annual meets are still called by many the Mott Haven games...
...Unfortunately for itself, it is too far out of town to be well patronized at present. It is one-fifth of a mile in circuit, and when especially prepared is one of the finest tracks, in the world for a walk or a run of 300 yards or more. It is almost unequalled for a quarter, as the start is at the head of the straight and, after a circuit, finish at the end of the home-stretch. The great trouble with it is the sand, which comes from underneath and moxes with the cinders, making the track brittle. Some...
...games were held on the Polo Grounds, as being more convenient and likely to draw larger audiences. They are situated on 110th street and Fifth avenue. "The path is one-third of a mile in circuit, and in its best days was a fine track. As it is surrendered a almost exclusively to base-ball, the track is almost entirely neglected. At the time Myers ran his wonderful 600 and 1,000 year races on it, the course was well kept. Since then, it has 'gone to the dogs; ' for running, poor, and for walking, abominable. The American...
...exercise generally taken by men not trying for any team or not particularly athletic in nature. But it seems rather hasty for men to engage in these games of ball on the newly filled and planted ground. There are several small pieces of this new ground outside for the track on Jarvis, and it seems a pity that the turf thereon should not be allowed to harden until it will bear running over it without being cut up. If the men continue to use these bits of ground, they will soon be unfit to ever use for tennis, and will...
...fifth annual race meeting of the Harvard bicycle club will be held on the new quarter-mile track on Holmes field on Saturday...