Word: racing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Bicycle race. Dean...
...athletic meeting occurred on Holmes Field. A fair-sized audience was present and witnessed a very good exhibition in many of the events. The entries were few, but the records made in most of the events were very credit able. The record was broken in the two-mile bicycle race, and in putting the shot...
...obliged to give 2 feet handicap and jumping only 18 feet was defeated. E. A. Meredith, '85, S., walked a mile in 7.57 1-5, and C. F. Odell won the 220 yards dash in 25 2-5 seconds. L. H. Hamilton, '86, won the two-mile bicycle race in 7.15, in spite of a heavy handicap to C. Adams, '87. Of the first prizes '85 took two, '86 three, '87 two, and Sheffield three...
HARVARD BICYCLE CLUB.- At the last meeting of the club it was voted to leave the arrangement for the race meeting in the hands of the officers and directors. Invitations were, therefore, sent to the bicycle club of Yale, Brown and the Andover Academy, and nearly every member of our own club asked either personally or by printed requests, to enter one or more of the events. The result has been anything but gratifying, for two men only from the Harvard club were willing to enter, and Brown was the only one of the outside clubs who intended to send...
...more behind, all critics joined in praising the Harvard method. Competent amateurs, it will now be observed, attribute the success of '87 on Friday to the mistake made by '85 in attempting to pull a stroke of forty-four to the minute during the first mile of the race. It is as true a saying as it is trite, that it is wise to let well enough alone."- Advertiser...