Word: racing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...route for the handicap bicycle road race is as follows: The start is at the corner of River and Howard streets, near Central Square, Cambridgeport; down River street across bridge, and direct on Cambridge street to Winship street, Brighton. Turn left on this street and Chestnut Hill Avenue to stone gate. Pass through this and between the reservoirs to the right up the hill on Beacon street. Keep Bea con street through Newton Centre. Half a mile beyond turn right on Walnut street, which hold through New tonville to Craft street. Keep straight ahead on Craft street till North street...
...meeting of the Bicycle Club, held last Friday evening, a committee was appointed with Brown, '91, as chairman, to arrange for a club handicap race. The committee has decided to have the race Friday afternoon, Nov. 18. The course will be about fifteen miles long, starting at Central Square, passing through Brighton, Newtonville, Waltham and Watertown, and finishing at Mt. Auburn. There will be a run over the course several days before the race in order that contestants may know the turns. Prizes will be given to the first two men at the finish, and all others who cover...
...crowd of Harvard students, while participating in a hare and hounds race one day last week, ran through the newly graded plots in the Longfellow garden, tearing it up badly.- Tribune...
...Harvard freshmen have refused to accept the Yale freshmen's challenge to a boat race.- Princetonian...
...question of the Yale freshman race is again up for discussion. Ninety refused the challenge, while eighty-nine accepted it. There is, consequently, a precedent both for refusing and for accepting. Two races by the freshmen would be folly. The New London course is unfit for more than two crews, so a race between three crews would be folly likewise. The freshmen cannot throw Columbia overboard as ninety lost the race last year. If they accept the Yale challenge they will do it with their eyes open. Some answer should be sent soon...