Word: walking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following is a list of the events to be competed: 100 yds., 220 yds. and 440 yards. dashes, 1-2 mile run, mile walk, 120-yards hurdle race, 1-mile bicycle race, running high and broad jumps, throwing the baseball, throwing the hammer (12 lbs), putting the shot (16 lbs., pole vault...
...number of entries in each event is as follows: 75 yards run, 121; 250 yards run, 77; 440 yards run, 67; 880 yards run, 81; 250 yards hurdle race, 29; two-mile run, 61; one-mile walk, 43; 11/2 mile bicycle race, 50; 3/4 mile walk, 65; 1-4 mile run, 87; and tug-of-war, 9 teams. Total number...
...course of lectures, to give anything but a most superficial account of the "Eternal City." It would take months, nay years, to gain a knowledge of its churches, temples, paintings and antiquities. He would be obliged to confine himself to one subject-namely, the topography of Rome. He would walk with his listeners from one place of interest to another, starting at the northern portion of the city, and going a circular path towards the east, showing them the views he had collected. Rome, he said, had changed much in the last twenty-five years, and now there...
...open to Yale men only); horizontal bar (open to Yale and Second regiment); exhibition pull of the champion Yale crew; regimental tug-of-war (open to Second Regiment only); intercollegiate tug-of-war; regimental mile run, handicap, (open to Second Regiment); bayonet race open to all amateurs); regimental mile walk, handicap (open to Second Regiment); 50 yards dash (open to officers of Second Regiment only); half mile roller skating race (open to Second Regiment ). On Saturday night the following events will be contested, all of which are handicaps with the exception of the potato and obstacle races, and all open...
...diamond rings to first, diamond scarf pins to second, and handsome gold medals for third. There will be a gold watch souvenir for every starter. The programme is as follows: 75 yards run, handicap; 250 yards run, handicap; 440 yards run, handicap; 2 mile run, handicap; 1 mile walk, handicap; tug-of-war, scratch, 650 pounds limit; 3-4 mile novice walk, scratch; 1-4 mile novice run, scratch; 1 1-2 mile bicycle race, handicap. Entries will be received from all amateurs. An entrance fee of 50 cents must accompany each entry. Entries close with secretary...