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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Bicycle Race (3 miles). - L. Foster, '81, C. A. Parker, '80, F. E. Cabot, '80, A. S. Tubbs, '79, F. Sharon, '80. Foster dropped out at the end of the first mile, and Tubbs and Sharon took no part in the race. First mile (time, 4 min. 4 sec.) Parker ten yards ahead. Second mile (time, 4 min. 17 sec.), Cabot ahead. Third mile, and the race won by Parker, one length ahead. Total time...
...Potato Race (30 yards). - Entries : J. E. Cowdin, '79, C. Brigham, '79, R. N. Ellis, '80, F. M. Ware, '79, W. G. Twombley, '79, L. B. Harding, '79, W. Austin, '79. Won by Austin...
Three-Legged Race (100 yards). - Entries : J. Otis, '81, and F. B. Holder, '81; C. H. W. Foster, '81, and E. W. Atkinson, '81; W. N. Conant, '79, and J. W. Mitchell, '79. Won by Otis and Holder...
...were, as a whole, more nearly "fit" than they have ever been before. The time made in the Hundred-Yard Dash and Quarter-Mile Run was most excellent, - remarkable when we consider that it was made on a track of loose dirt, instead of a cinder path. The Bicycle Race produced capital sport, every inch of the three miles being closely contested. It was, we believe, the first race ridden by amateurs in the country. Next fall, with a proper cinder track on Holmes or Jarvis, we hope to see larger fields of starters and equally fast and close races...
That Amateur Definition. - If the English adhere strictly to their new definition of an amateur, not one of our crews - not even the Columbia Four - will be qualified to start in an amateur race on the other side of the water. By the rule no one is an amateur who has "worked in or about boats for hire," etc., etc. Now one Smith, of the Emerald Boat Club, we think, did once upon a time, for hire, catch some fish for a gentleman from a boat. Hence, he is no longer an amateur by the rule. Now almost...