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Word: finishers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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...winner in any event can be settled beyond a doubt. To all who are familiar with the dispute as to Downs' quarter-mile run at Beacon Park, and know how entirely all doubts might have been avoided if there had been photographs of the start and finish, these suggestions must be most interesting. The mistake about "Cartwright of Harvard's" pole vaulting is an amusing one. In the photograph given, the man vaulting is not Wheelwright, at all, but Sherwin. To be sure the photograph contains an excellent likeness of Wheelwright (whose name some how got twisted to Cartwright...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Outing for March. | 3/7/1892 | See Source »

...whole, says the Yale News, the men are slow in starting to recover and inclined to rush on last part of stroke. They do not hold shoulders well back at finish, do not put sufficient life into the stroke and do not pay strict attention to the coach. Their time is also very poor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Freshman Teams. | 2/6/1892 | See Source »

...Rogers, '94 S., 161 lbs. - Reaches too far, not firm on the catch, kicks out slide, swings too far back, and his stroke is short on finish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Yale Crew. | 2/2/1892 | See Source »

...think that there will be need of such a limit if we hope to finish the games this college year. If the suggestion as to the time-limit is acceptable, our first move will be P-K 4, and if your reply is P-K 4, our next move will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard-Yale Chess Tournament. | 1/27/1892 | See Source »

...LATHROP.CHESS AND WHIST CLUB. - Regular meeting tonight at 7.30, 25 Robert's Block. All games in the preliminary round except those to finish ties must be played before 10 p. m. tonight. Finals will be started, as well as games to decide ties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notice. | 12/18/1891 | See Source »

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