Word: racing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...already received one of these photographs, sent by an old friend at New Haven, and had studied it carefully. It was taken when the leading men were about 10 yards from the tape, and we are unable to understand what their relative positions at this point in the race has to do with the order in which they crossed the finish line. But if this picture had been taken at the instant the winner breasted the tape, it would have been impossible to learn from it who had won. The instrument stood on the bank at the extreme outside edge...
...camera seen nothing and records nothing which the human eye, placed it in the same position, would not see; and no man, standing where the instrument stood, could have known who won. A man five yards in front or behind the finish-line frequently thinks the race won by a runner who was a full yard behind. A man 20 or 25 yards away knows nothing at all about a close finish, and the camera knows no more than the man. The writer of this article sat five yards behind the finish line, and thought Sherrill...
...stewards of the H. A. A., returned from the freshman base-ball game at New Haven, two weeks ago, and brought the announcement up to Harvard from Winston, the trainer of the Yale team, that the Yale freshman class wished to offer a one-hundred dollar cup to be raced for by Sherrill and Rogers; and further, that the time and place of the race would be left to Rogers. Mr. Lathrop at once wrote to Winston saying that, although he had no power to issue a challenge as Sherrill was the person seeking satisfaction, if any challenge was sent...
There are in all twenty-six articles which regulate the annual boat race between Harvard and Yale. The following is the substance of the more important and more interesting rules...
...previous agreements are annulled and at any time certain specified articles of the present rules may be suspended by the mutual consent of both captains and with the approval of the referee. The race shall be deemed an annual event; but, in case of the inability of either college to enter a crew. notice to that effect must be sent to the other college before the first day of December of that college year. The referee must be a graduate of some neutral college and each boat club shall have the privilege of naming him in alternate years. Yale having...