Word: beating
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Cornell will send out her first university crew next season, and expects great things from it, evidently thinking a crew able to row more than two races in a season without any injury to itself. Some time ago, in fact quite a number of years, a freshman eight beat Harvard, but the university crews have always rowed in "sixes" or "fours...
...superior to those from England and Ireland. Fewer records were made in running than in almost any other sport but of the record-breakers in sprinting, C. H. Sherill, Yale, '89, stands at the head. At New Haven, June 15, Sherrill ran 125 yards in 12 3-5 seconds, beating the record which Wendell Baker, Harvard '86. made several years ago. He ran 150 yards in 15 seconds, breaking the world's record in that event. His next trial at sprinting resulted in his breaking another best record by covering 250 yards in the remarkably quick time...
...among the three leading players. F. M. Brown, '90, S. W. Sturgis, '90, and F. M. Nicolls, '92, were all tied for first place with five games won, one lost, and one drawn. They then played a special series, but this, as before, resulted in a tie, for Sturgis beat Brown, Nicolls beat Sturgis, and Brown beat Nicolls. The scores of the other players are as follows: Webster won 5, lost 2; Chamberlin won 3, lost 4; Black won 2, lost 5; Taussig won 1 1-2, lost 5 1-2; R. D. Brown lost 7. Brown and Taussig withdrew...
...final round of the chess tournament, Webster beat Black yesterday. The remaining games will be played off as rapidly as possible...
...chess tournament, A. E. Taussig beat Darling, and thus won a place in the finals. The following games have been reported: Nicolls beat Chamberlin; Nicolls beat Sturgls; Sturgis beat Chamberlin; Webster beat Chamberlin. R. D. Brown has retired from the tournament from lack of time and forfeits all his games...