Word: turf
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...next branch of athletics to go, - not altogether permanently, however, - is baseball. The 'varsity will begin its outdoor practice on the field, but will later move back to Holmes Field, where a "scalped" diamond will be prepared as soon as the ground has become sufficiently dried for removing the turf. This "skinned" diamond will be a great improvement over the old turf one which was so uneven, and remained wet and soggy for such a long time after a rain that not only games but regular practice were interfered with...
...hurdle race will be run on turf. The hurdles used in England are far heavier than those used here and striking a hurdle means not knocking it down but falling...
...York Athletic Club will be held at Travers Island, Saturday, June 9, 1894. The following events will be contested: One mile run, 440 yards run, 75 yards dash, 1 mile walk, 2 mile bicycle race (class A), 220 yards hurdle, running high jump,-all handicap; 120 yards run (on turf), 880 yards run, 120 yards hurdle race, pole vault, standing high jump, running broad jump, throwing 16 1b. hammer, putting 16 1b. shot, 1 mile team relay race,- all scratch. Entries close Wednesday, May 30, with John C. Gulick, secretary...
...soon as Jarvis Field is laid out in tennis courts, there will be no place for the class nines either to practice or to play their regular games except on Norton's Field. In future years, there will be good diamonds on Soldiers Field, but to have a turf diamond there this year is a physical impossibility. It seems to us that this lack of proper practiceground is a misfortune. It is true that the class baseball games have of late years had a prominent element of farce in them, and yet, if it had not been for class baseball...
Here Harvard enthusiasts had a chance to shout. Wrightington ran 15 yards round Hinkey. Brewer pushed 10 yards more past Greenway. With a clear field before him he slipped on the hard turf and fell. By several successive rushes aided by off-side play on Yale's part, Harvard got to Yale's 43 yard line...