Word: racing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...entries and handicaps for the race this afternoon are as follows...
...those not winning first or second prize who cover the distance in 1 h. 10 min. will receive cups. Only members of the Harvard Bicycle Club can receive prizes or cups. Men may join any time before the race. All contestants must meet at the gymnasium at 2.30 p. m. promptly. The finish will be near the Mt. Auburn bridge over railroad, a little after four. As every single man has announced his determination not to win a prize, but merely to go in for the fun of the thing, a lively race is anticipated...
...publish in another column the long expected attack upon eighty-eight for the action taken at their class meeting in regard to the Columbia race. Our New York brethren betray a tolerable amount of spleen, but their arguments contain too great an "element of weakness" to be convincing. They also show considerable ignorance of the science and requirements of boatracing, where the propelling force is manually performed. In asserting that a "crew in proper training and condition should be able to row two (four mile) races on consecutive days," they lay themselves open to challenge. The Columbia men have turned...
Harvard eighty-eight's action in passing a resolution deeming it inadvisable to row Columbia before the Yale Harvard race seems to show an element of weakness. What are the reasons that can be advanced for such action? First it uses up the crew. Second, that Yale may gain points from the race. As to the first of these reasons it can only be said that a crew in proper training and condition should be able to row races on consecutive days if necessary, let alone an interval of several days. As to the second, what points might be gained...
...follow the argument, we are accused of inconsistency because we state that in refusing the challenge of the Yale freshmen, the class of '90 did not consider the question of the '89 race, and consequently '91 ought not to be influenced, as we said she should, by the outcome of last year's contest. In favor of this view we hear that the Yale '89 crew practically defeated our freshmen two years ago, but the fact that they did not know how to row well enough in rough water, and so did not reach the finish-but the bottom-first...