Word: raced
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...National League race was finally decided yesterday when Brooklyn cinched the pennant by defeating New York 9 to 6. The World Series, which will probably start next Saturday, will find Brooklyn and the Boston "Red Sox" as contestants for the title. The place of the first game is undecided...
Hopes that the Yale and Columbia university eights might race again this fall, as was the case a year ago, were shattered when Coach Nickalls of the Blue Navy announced that there would be no special races outside of the usual fall regatta. Oarsmen are out at New Haven now and starting a season of hard work preparatory to developing a winning crew in 1917, which with the present indications of the first eight seems not improbable...
Over 90 candidates for the University crew reported at Newell Boathouse yesterday afternoon. Four crews, coached by Coaches R. F. Herrick '90 and Haines, rowed from the Cottage Farm Bridge to Watertown. Crews A and B are supposedly evenly matched, as are C and D. They race each other at the end of the season. The first day's showing was good, the men pulling a slow stroke. W. H. Davy & Sons delivered two new 26-inch boats which were tried...
...Cleveland's breaking even with the Chicago Americans yesterday afternoon, the Boston "Red Sox" have now cinched the pennant in the American League race. A "World's Series" is now sure to be played in Boston, but where else is still uncertain...
...seven cars night and day on advanced posts in 48-hour shifts, but the men and cars are pretty well recovered from the strenuous nights and days they got at Verdun and all are eager to see our fighting division move where we will get in the coming pursuit race to Berlin...