The Encyclopaedia of Sport and Games

Every sport and game of the Edwardian world in four volumes — from angling and ballooning to yachting — written by the people who did them, Theodore Roosevelt on big game among them.

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Sprint

(1) A race whose whole distance can be run at full speed, including the 100 and 220 yards, and, in some opinions, the quarter mile. (2) As verb, to run for a little way at top speed, not only in a short race, but even in a long one, in order to pass or dishearten an opponent.

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