Word: quarters
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...start, all the contestants got away well together with Parker slightly in the lead. At the end of the first quarter-mile, Parker cut across Hooper's bow, causing the latter to collide with Strong, and forcing Wiggins against the bank. Soon Cutler who steered the straightest course began to draw ahead, followed by Peabody. Just before the finish, Parker passed Peabody and finished about two lengths behind Cutler. No time was taken...
...second University cross-country team will take part in an invitation cross-country run with Andover at Andover this afternoon at 2.30 o'clock. The course is one and three-quarters miles in length, and the race will be three times around the course, making a distance of five and a quarter miles. Each team will consist of seven men, of which the first five to finish will score. The winning team and the first three men to finish will be awarded prizes...
...taken to Princeton, and from those men who make a good showing in the consolation run on Tuesday. The team that runs against Andover will consist of seven men, and the first five men of each team to finish will score. The Andover course is one and three-quarters miles in length, and the race will be three times around this course, making a distance of five and a quarter miles...
...Craig decides to continue the run, he will pay a royalty of three per cent of the gross receipts for every week thereafter that the performance is continued. He further agrees to do his best to place the play with other managers for regular production, retaining for himself a quarter interest when it is produced elsewhere than in his own theater. Plays may be in three, four or five acts. They will be judged by the standard of fitness for actual dramatic production...
...clock sharp. The first division race will be started promptly at 3.45 o'clock, and any crew not at its buoy by that time will be disqualified. There will be two days of bumping races and on Thursday the best crews will race over a mile and three-quarter course in the Basin, from scratch...