Word: crossings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first race for the cross country championship of America under the auspices of the New York Athletic Club, took place a few days ago in New York. The distance, which was a little less than five miles was covered first by Delaney in 26 min. 30 sec. Myers and other noted athletes...
...announced as follows : Oxford has won the boat race the single-handed billiards, the Rugby foot-ball match, the golf, the bicycling, the tennis (single and double), the lawn tennis (single and double), the shooting, the polo. Cambridge has been victorious in the cricket match, the cross country racing, the athletic sports, the double billiards, the Association foot-ball match, and the racquets, both games ; the chess match was a tie." [London Truth...
...Outside the college walls no moral restraint is put upon him at all. If a professor saw him smoking or drinking spirits in a cafe on Sunday while he was out on leave no notice would be taken of the fact, nor would a professor or usher think of cross-questioning him on his return from the holidays as to what he had been doing, what books or newspapers he had read. This curious mixture of subjection and license might have worked well if French boys had the same taste for out-door games as the English, and could...
...hydraulic principle, but has but one cylinder for all four men instead of one cylinder for each of four men, as is usual on hydraulic rowing machines. The two bow men pull on one yoke, and the two stern men on another. These yokes are pivoted on a cross head to the piston. By this arrangement the two bow men and the two stern men must pull exactly alike. It can be seen whether they take the stroke at the same time and pull alike...
Earned runs - Harvard, 2; two base hits - Nichols, Mansfield; three base hits - Nichols; base on balls - Harvard, 3, Holy Cross, 4; struck out - Harvard, 3, Holy Cross, 10; wild pitches - White, 2, McQuaid, 2; passed balls - Kingsley, 5; time of game - 2 h. 30 m.; umpire - Mr. Crocker...