Word: racing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...race with Columbia, we are heartily in favor of its discontinuance. There is little use in using up our crew for its contest with Yale, and that is about all the good that the Columbia race does. If the affair was nothing but a practice pull, it would be a good thing, but it has ceased to be that. It has become a hard, stubborn fight and presupposing that the Yale race is no walk-over, no eight men can pull the four miles the second time in one week, with a fair prospect for success. The boat club would...
...first country club race of the fall meeting will be held to-morrow at 2 p. m. There will be four events-a pony race, a steeple chase and two flat races. The club course is at Hyde Park, Brookline...
...Yale News urges the sophomore class to contribute money to buy trophies for last year's freshman crew. It says that though they could not arrange a race with Harvard their work was none the less creditable and should be rewarded...
...mile bicycle championship of the world was contested recently in England, and France, America, England and Scotland were represented. The race was won by Dubois of France in 3 hours, 6 minutes and 23 seconds...
...Bowdoin College fall races were rowed Friday. The four-oared race was contested by four crews. Jackson, Hastings, Adams and Russell won in two heats, Lyman of the class of '89 on two out of three heats in the single scull races...