Word: headers
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Dates: during 1883-1883
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...Claflin, Harvard and Massachusetts Bicycle clubs, and Mr. H. D. Corey, Massachusetts Bicycle club, started last Wednesday night at 12 o'clock in an attempt to break the road record for twenty-four hours. In the early morning Mr. Claflin got a severe header, bruising and cutting himself badly, and though he pluckily rode over seventy miles more he was forced to give up at Newburyport, having ridden in all 107 miles in 10 3-4 hours. Mr. Corey continued and by 12 o'clock Thursday night had ridden 190 9-10 miles, thus beating the record by over...
...Matthews; 5 minutes later the hounds were sent off, Captain Smith leading. The course lay up Quincy St. and Oxford, then by Sacramento to Beacon St. The hounds had hardly got out of the yard before they lost the trail, and on Beacon St. Mr. Smith got a severe header but he pluckily mounted again and finally won second prize. On Beacon St. the hounds again took the wrong turning, the scent not lying well, and went nearly half a mile out of the way before they discovered their mistake. From Beacon St. the route lay over Somerville hill...