Word: walking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...managed to borrow a sum of money. This enabled them to send the team up to New York Monday morning. A further allowance of borrowed cash gave the Princeton representatives a light lunch and the balance was large enough to pay their elevated R. R. fare, compelling them to walk six or seven blocks to the grounds. The association here is now two hundred dollars in debt...
...Mile Walk - Wright, L. S., Bemis...
Yesterday afternoon Eighty-nine and Eighty-seven played their second game together, but the result was somewhat different from the first game, in which Eighty-seven had a pure walk-over, owing to the fact that Eighty-nine had no pitcher. Yesterday, however, Eighty-seven found it extremely difficult to hit McPherson for anything but slow grounders to the infield...
...Rust, 87, G. H. Brewer, '88, G. Perry, '89, W. Atkinson, '89, Treat, L. S. It proved to be a tiresome event, none of the men making very good records. Cogswell won with a jump of 19 feet 6 inches; Treat was second by 3 inches. The mile walk between E. C. Wright, L. S., and H. H. Bemis, '87, proved to be the closest race of the day. Bemis led at the beginning of the last quarter, but was passed by Wright after a hard struggle. Wright finished in 6 minutes 59 3-4 seconds, with Bemis second...
...Saturday afternoon to witness the annual spring sports. A cold east wind interfered seriously with the contests, and it is greatly to the credit of the men that three of the records were so nearly broken. Cogswell's time in the half-mile run, Wright's in the mile walk, and Merrill's in the bicycle race were all of them so close to the Harvard records that it is safe to say that the records would have gone under more favorable conditions...