Word: beacons
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...second annual game with Dr. Pope's nine was played yesterday on Jarvis. The game last year resulted in a score of 24 to 10 in favor of Harvard. Dr. Pope's nine was made up of Beacon players with the exception of Dr. Pope himself and Kimball, '86, who played right field. Harvard's battery was, White and Crocker, Allen and Nichols, playing centre and right field respectively. The feature of the game was Crocker's catching. Baker played a fine game at short and did some very heavy batting, hs did Lovering. The features of the game...
...Beacon Park, yesterday afternoon, there was a two-mile bicycle race between C. H. Chenery of the Harvard Law School and Manton Mavrick of the college, to determine which should represent the college in the collegiate contest at the polo grounds in New York, May 26. Chenery took the lead and held it until the last quarter of the second mile, when Mavrick shot by in fine shape and won the race...
...races under the auspices of the Harvard Bicycle Club took place at Beacon Park yesterday afternoon, and were a complete success. A slight wind made its presence felt by impairing the records; otherwise the weather was all that could be desired...
...Brighton horse-cars leave Harvard square this afternoon at 2.20 and 2.50, and run within a short distance of Beacon Park, where the races of the Bicycle Club are to be held this afternoon. The races begin at 3 o'clock...
...bicycle races at Beacon Park this afternoon will be of unusual interest. Some of the best amateur riders in the country are entered, and close and exciting races may be expected. The fact that a number of Harvard men expect to contest, who are candidates for the Mott Haven team, will give us an opportunity of judging of our chances in the bicycle race at New York, especially as one of the contestants in the mile race is Yale's representative. The custom of having races under the auspices of a college association open to all amateurs...