Word: finishers
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Several Harvard men who took part in the Thanksgiving Day run came in well at the finish, and probably more will enter for Saturday...
...Thanksgiving Day at 10.30 a. m. the Boston Athletic Association will give a Cross Country Run (Scratch), open to all amateurs. The course will be about six (6) miles, and the start and finish will be at the Club House, Exeter Street. Prizes will be given to the first six men. Entries will close on Wednesday, November 26, at 8 p. m., and must be made on the B. A. A. Entry Blank. They are to be sent, accompanied by a fee (25 cents), to H. S. Cornish, Exeter Street...
...actual ime being thirty-five minutes and fifty-six seconds and a half. The second man was R. Macallister '94. The two scratch men, R. H. Davis '91 and G. F. Taylor '92 came in fifth and seventh, respectively. Some of the men dropped out before the finish, but the race was on the whole very successful...
Sixteen men have entered for the race. The handicaps have been unusually carefully arranged and the race cannot but prove close and exciting. Those desiring to witness the start and finish can take the electric car from Barry's Corners which is just across the Boylston Bridge-a few minutes' walk from Harvard Square...
...quarter mile dash, T. J. Stead, '91, the scratch man, found the swarm of handicap men altogether too much for him, and did not finish. S. Wells '91 (5 yards). won in 51 1-5 sec., with V. S. Rothschild '91 (15 yards), second, and F. E. Stetson '92 (10 yards) third...