Word: raced
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...arrangements for the Bicycle Race Meeting are nearly completed. The meeting will be held on the Holmes Field track on Saturday, May 11, at 2.30 p. m. The events, with the prizes offered will be as follows...
...bicycle events are open to all two wheeled, one tracked machines oarrying one rider. The safety race is open to Rover type, rear driving safeties. The tandem safety race is open to Rover type rear-driving tandem wheels only. Any race in which the number of entries warrant it will be run in heats. The entrance fee is one dollar for each event except the interscholastic race for which it is fifty cents. Entries close Saturday...
...diamond sculls at Henley. Gardner of the Oxford crew and Nichols stroke of Cambridge will compete with him. He will try to enter the four-mile Wingfield sculls in the middle of July and will go from there to the German regattas and the exposition race at Paris...
...date of the class races has not as yet been definitely decided upon, but they will probably occur about May 6. It is more than likely that the 'varsity and the Athletic Club crews will row against each other on the same day. It has been found that the new Harvard bridge, not withstanding the breadth of its spans, will cause considerable difficulty, and some very clever steering will be required of the coxswains. Two of the four class crews will probably pass under the span nearest the draw on one side and two under the corresponding span...
Catain E. P. Smith, of the Columbia freshman crew, has recently sent a reply to the challenge of the Yale freshmen to a two-mile straightaway race at New London. Captain Smith refuses to accept the challenge, but states his willingness to admit the Yale freshmen to the Harvard Columbia race, provided Harvard agree. As Harvard will in all probability refuse to agree to any such proposition, the Yale freshmen and the Columbia freshmen will not race this year...