Word: mishaps
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Reed's next statement is that the Polo Grounds' track is wide enough to start two rows of riders without mishap. Though last year a fall occurred from bad starting, yet the danger is more in the number of riders at one time on the track than the number starting. Besides the starters rarely know their business and dangerous falls are sure to occur if the number of starters is large. Mr. Reed mentions that there is a rule which provides that the race be started again if the starters fall within 10 yards of the start. This rule...
Last year the bicycle race at the inter-collegiate meeting was a miserable failure. The men were started in two rows and by some mishap every man fell except two; two more managed to mount, and the race was finally won by one of those who had fallen, in very slow time. Such a fiasco must not happen next year, yet there will be a greater number of starters than this year, and the only way to run a two mile race will be in two or more heats, and a final heat. But a race run in heats...
...changes, and as it proved, rather too much so, for they had not rowed a dozen strokes in the second trial before Clarke broke his oar short off and Gilman displaced his seat. This, of course, put them out of the race, and was doubly unfortunate since when the mishap occurred they had a short lead over the other two crews. The rest of the race was hotly contested by II. and IV., the latter crew finally winning by about three seconds. Time, 58 seconds...
...money in the total sufficiently large to induce the widow to part with it. While the civil war was in progress George Lafayette Washington lived eleven miles from Harper's Ferry, on the main road to Winchester, where the belligerents were continually ousting one another's forces. Lest any mishap should befall the medal, it was placed, with its original case of green sealskin lined with velvet, in a wrapping of cotton, deposited in a box, and buried in the dry cellar of the venerable mansion where Washington was wont to pass many pleasant holidays. The losses sustained...