Word: race
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Mile Bicycle Race...
...mile bicycle race took place at the Charles River Park track under the sanction of the L. A. W. H. S. Richards '98 won first place, time 7m. 14s.; G. F. Hurt '98 second, and W. R. Brinckerhoff '97, third...
...Physically, the men are a fine powerful lot, fully as strong and well developed as the Englishmen who form the two university crews. They have not had the same racing experience as their English cousins, but this disadvantage may be to some extent counteracted by the longer preparation which they will have to undergo for this particular race, and by racing against scratch crews in the later stages...
...University of Wisconsin has sent a challenge for a crew race with Yale, to be held about May 30, on the New Haven harbor. It is thought that Yale will accept the challenge for both the 'varsity and the freshman crew...
...winners of these divisions will all play each other for the championship. By this method each team is sure of playing at least three games, which is the reason that it was chosen, rather than the usual tournament plan, where by one defeat puts a man out of the race. If this scheme is adopted, four diamonds will be laid out on Soldiers Field, so that four games can be played in an afternoon. Each nine will play every other day, and with good weather the preliminaries should be finished by the week after the Vacation and the championship settled...