Word: racing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Baker, '86, will run an exhibition 3-8-mile race to-day at the freshman meeting, and endeavor to break the record in that event...
...followed. In nearly all American colleges one of the methods of training oarsmen is to run them from one to five miles per day in the hope of thus increasing their staying powers. This I believe to be wrong, for assuredly if a man was training for a running race, he would not practice throwing the hammer. To my mind the only desirable training for a race is to work at the oars or weights...
...should coach a crew of giants who proved themselves capable of holding a sixty stroke for four miles, I would have them pull it, and not train to pull a thirty-eight stroke, because some winning crew or other pulled that stroke in 1776. In the 1885 race, Capt. Flanders was censured for setting his men a stroke beyond what they were accustomed to; but he did merely what any stroke oar would naturally do. That is, run up the stroke as high as his crew would follow, if he failed to discover the rival shell behind...
Yesterday afternoon, according to announcement, the Canoe Club held their annual fall race. The course was triangular, with the starting point near Union boat-house. The first half mile was in a northwesterly direction, the second half mile in a southeasterly direction, and the last two miles from there straight back to boat-house. The contestants were F. J. Proctor, '87, A. G. Webster, R. G., E. K. Dunham, M. S., and T. Dunham M. S. At first there was no wind, but when about half over the course a light breeze sprang up. The race was close throughout between...
CANOE CLUB. - The fall regatta will be held to-morrow on the Charles River Basin. Two races will be contested; one set at 11 o'clock, a class B unlimit-sailing race over a three mile triangular course; the other a limited sail area race for class B canoes. First and second prizes to consist of silk banners are offered for each race...