Word: walks
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...sporting editor authorizes us to say that, in view of the prompt manner in which the table at Morgan's has subscribed for a cup, he will guarantee $15 more for a mile-run. Now, won't the Advocate attend to the mile-walk, the Lampoon to the hurdle-race, and some of the club tables to the hundred-yards, two-mile run, broad jump, high jump...
...yards hurdles, C. H. White, 19 sec.; 880-yards handicap, G. G. Morrice (50 yards), 55 sec.; high jump, C. H. White, 4 ft. 8 1/2 in.; wide jump, H. B. Greenfield, 18 ft. 7 1/2 in.; throwing cricket ball, H. B. Greenfield, 94 yds. 1 ft.; two-mile walk, R. B. Cator, 19 min. 20 sec.; 150-yards consolation, H. F. Elkington, 16 2/5 sec.; 120-yards hurdles, P. Crawford, 21 1/4 sec.; 440 yards, G. Gordon...
...Rowing Club. The athletes of Harvard are cordially invited to participate in the exercises, as a large proportion of the contestants are amateurs and the object is a deserving one. The programme is as follows: Heavy dumbbells; picking up heavy weights; putting the shot; three-legged race; one-mile walk; pulling up, one and two arms; half-mile run; hitch-and-kick; sack-race; horizontal bar; foil and broadsword fencing; tumbling; rowing eight oars; single and double somersaults; hurdle-racing; potato-race; tug of war; three-mile walk; standing and running high jump, etc. Further particulars can be obtained from...
Oxford University, Brazenose College, February 15. - 100 yards, C. Trepplin, 11 1/5 sec.; broad jump, A. T. Heath, 19 ft. 10 in.; mile-handicap, J. Lang (scratch), 5 min. 3 sec.; mile-walk, A. C. King...
...contrivance, consisting of two wooden wheels, one behind the other, connected by a curved plank, on which sat the driver, propelling himself by pushing with his feet on the ground. This machine, which was described as one "by which you can ride at your ease, and are obliged to walk in the mud at the same time," received the name of the "hobby horse." It was introduced into London shortly, but soon died a natural death, hastened, no doubt, by the extravagant caricatures of it, and by the impression that its rider acquired neither velocity, comfort, nor elegance...