Word: greenleaf
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...handicap race of the Bicycle club took place last Saturday. The course was six times around Chestnut Hill reservoir, a distance of seven miles. Davis and Greenleaf were handicapped so heavily that they came in three quarters of a mile behind the winner. The most interesting part of the race was between Davis and Greenleaf; the latter winning by about a hundred yards. Barron won the race, his time being 23 minutes, 51 seconds. Below is the order at the finish with the handicaps and time...
Scratch, Davis, '91, Greenleaf, '92; 3 1-4 minutes, Wirts, '92, Barron, '91; 3 1 2 minutes, Holmes, '92, Williams, '91; 5 minutes, Spencer, '90; 6 minutes, Doe, '91, Weissman, '92, Lythegoe...
...race meet of the Rhode Island wheelmen will be held today at Narragansett Park, Providence. R. H. Davis '91 has entered for two safety races, the two mile scratch and the mile handicap; in this latter race Davis is scratch and will try to break the record. Greenleaf '92 has entered for the two mile American championship race. Bailey '91 has entered for the two safety races, and with his brother for the tandem safety race...
...postponed two mile bicycle race between Harvard and Yale was run Monday afternoon, Yale winning. As Davis was ruled out, F. A. Clark of Yale, and W. B. Greenleaf, second and third men were the only contestants. The race was started at 3.15 in a pouring rain, Greenleaf started with a lead a few feet, which he kept until the eighth lap, when Clark forged ahead winning by about 80 feet in 6 minutes, 48 2-5 seconds...
...Yale, second; second heat, Herbert Mapes, Columbia, first, 16 4-5s.; K. Brown, Harvard, second; final heat won by Herbert Mapes, Columbia, 16 4-5s.; two mile bicycle race, first trial: won by Davis in 6m. 4-5s.; Clark second; second heat, won by W. B. Greenleaf in 6m 14 1,5s, Guhleman second; final heat, Davis and Greenleaf won, but Davis fouled Clark, and Referee Curtis decided that Greenleaf and Clark must ride over again. Four hundred and forty yards dash, first heat, W. C. Downes, Harvard, 53 3-5s., W. B. Wright, Yale, second...