Word: placing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...bicycle race which was to have taken place yesterday afternoon on the Charles River Park was again postponed on account of the bad weather. It has not yet been decided when the race will be held. The men entered rode a practice race of four miles...
...follows: "Sir Hugh Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, had a young gentleman of his own name, his near kinsman, that loved the Lord Mayor's daughter; to prevent and cross which love, the Earl caused his kinsman to be sent as colonel of a company into France; he resigned his place to another gentleman, his friend, and came disguised like a Dutch shoemaker to the house of Simon Eyre in Tower street, who served the mayor and his household with shoes; the merriment which passed in Eyre's house; his coming to be mayor of London, Lacy's getting his love...
...Jackson has been elected captain of the U. of P. ball nine in place of M. D. Ritchie resigned...
...probability be kept as it is for some time-or at least until next week, when the practice races on the lake begin. As will be noticed, only five of these men were in the '97 victorious crew. Oddie '99 at 6 is filling ex-Captain Spillman's place very acceptably. When Odell left college last term it was thought it would be difficult to find a No. 5 man his equal. Sweetland '99, however, although a trifle awkward, is a tower of strength there and should develop into a valuable man. Wakeman '99, last year...
...proposed international university chess match, scheduled for April 20, will not take place this year because of a misunderstanding of the eligibility rules...