Word: won
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...regular meeting of the Shooting Club was held at Watertown, yesterday afternoon. Only a few men were present, but there were enough men to hold the Founders Cup match. This was won by Quinlan. The score...
Ninety-one: 120-yards hurdle-The entries were A. S. Wolcott and T. P. King. The men got away together and for ninety yards they kept abreast of each other. When only three hurdles remained to be cleared, Wolcott drew away from King and won in 20 3-4 seconds...
...bicycle race-The event was contested by C. W. Spencer, who rode a star bicycle, and E. F. Rogers, on a safety machine. Spencer took the lead and made the first mile in 3 minutes, 36 seconds. At the beginning of the last half-mile, Rogers passed Spencer and won easily in 7 minutes, 1-4 seconds...
...race-The competitors were R. H. Davis and K. Brown; Davis soon took the lead with Brown only a few feet behind. The same relative positions were maintained until the home stretch was reached, when Brown made a desperate effort to overtake Davis, but did not succeed, and Davis won in 6 minutes, 47 3-5 seconds. Davis' time for the first mile was 3 minutes, 32 seconds...
Ninety-two: Two-mile bicycle race-The entries were W. B. Greenleaf and R. W. Holmes. Green leaf took the lead from the start, made the first mile in 3 minutes, 4 seconds, and won by about three-quarters of a lap in 6 minutes, 13 3-5 seconds...