Word: accidentally
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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II.-The hares must keep together, except in case of an accident to the machine of one of the hares or accident to rider incapacitating him for further riding.
On Tuesday last the Harvard Bicycle Club held the largest and most successful meet the club ever held. Before five o'clock, when the start was to be made, bicycles were seen coming from all sides towards University, and at a few minutes after five 23 members rode slowly out...
The two mile straight-away race in eight-oared shells between Columbia, '86, and Harvard, '86, was rowed on the afternoon of June 27, and proved an easy victory for Harvard, the blue and white being left six lengths (19 seconds) in the rear. At the start the Harvard crew...
The five mile race immediately followed, in which five contestants appeared - Messrs. Sabin and Hosmer of Boston, Maverick and Hemenway of the H. B. C. and Bickford of Somerville. Mr. Hosmer took the lead almost at the start, and for the first mile the order was Hosmer, maverick, Sabin, Hemenway...
On account of the recent accident at the railroad crossing on the Cambridge horse railroad, the conductors have received orders not only to stop their cars one hundred feet from the crossing, but also to walk ahead to the track and back again before starting the car.