Word: races
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Windle, of the New York Athletic club, who has entered for the quarter-mile, mile, and two miles, at the coming race-meet of the Harvard Bicycle club, is the 1888 amateur champion of America...
Ninety: 2-mile bicycle race-The event was contested by C. W. Spencer, who rode a star bicycle, and E. F. Rogers, on a safety machine. Spencer took the lead and made the first mile in 3 minutes, 36 seconds. At the beginning of the last half-mile, Rogers passed Spencer and won easily in 7 minutes, 1-4 seconds...
...reported that no entries have yet been received for the inter scholastic race at the bicycle race meet on May 11. This is to be regretted for it was hoped to make this event a prominent feature of the meeting. The encouragement of athletics in the preparatory schools has received much attention during the past year and inter scholastic leagues of base ball and foot ball have been organized. It is for the purpose of carrying out this idea that the interscholastic race was given a place in the programme. Bicycling is a form of contest which requires long training...
...class games of the Harvard Athletic Association are to be held on Thursday, May 2, at 4 o'clock. The events will be as follows: 100, 220, 440, 880 yards, and one-mile runs; 120 and 220-yards hurdle race; two-mile bicycle race; mile walk; putting the shot; throwing the hammer, running broad jump, running high jump and pole vault. Entries cannot be made later than 10 o'clock Wednesday evening, May 1st, but up to that time they may be left at 9 Linden street, or sent to Mr. Jacob Wendell, Jr., secretary of the association...
...class races, for which the crews have been working since the first part of the college year, will be rowed next Saturday afternoon, at 3 o'clock. The course will be practically the same as that rowed in previous years, but will have to be changed slightly on account of the new bridge. As now determined the course will start from a line drawn three hundred feet from the coal sheds below the railroad bridge and parallel with a line drawn from Otter street near the Union boat house; the latter is to be the finish. The course...