Word: race
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Denholm, and Bigelow, who were in the finals of the 100 yards dash at the dual games with Pennsylvania last Saturday, ran a heat to decide who should take the three prizes in that event. There were but the four Harvard men in the finals last Saturday, so the race was run merely to count up the points in the total score and no effort to decide who should have the prizes was made. The cups were given to Mr. Lathrop and yesterday the race for first, second and third place was run. The result was: J. T. Roche...
...Lampoon comes out today in the form of a Bicycle-Olympian number, in imitation of Puck and Judge, its "fellow confederates," as it terms them. The centre picture is an impressionistic sketch by T. M. Hastings '98, of the "race from Marathon to Station." The full page drawing by C. H. L. Johnton '99, of the rush from English A, is a very clever bit of caricature drawing and a very clever picture of that glimpse of "animal life." On the whole it is agood number and up to the usual standard...
...trustees of Columbia University will present the 'varsity crew with the shell to be used in this year's four cornered race...
Yesterday Senator Hill's amendment to the House appropriation bill authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to detail revenue cutters to protect passengers on excursion steamers at regattas was lost. This will bring up again the question as to where the boat race shall be rowed...
Earlier in the season Saratoga was practically decided upon. Poughkeepsie was held by the majority of the committee to be an unsafe place for the race, as the Hudson is navigable at that point and is used by many large steamers. Mr. Richards, however, representing Columbia asked for time before the final decision in which to try to have a bill passed in Congress policing all navigable waters during regattas. This bill passed the Senate, and the prospects for its final adoption were so good that the committee unanimously decided upon Poughkeepsie. Mr. Watson, representing Harvard, had been opposed...