Word: racing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...programme for the Yale Bicycle Club meeting is not yet made out, but one event will be a twenty mile race for a handsome cup worth $1,500, which must be won three times in order to be kept. There will be several hundred dollars in prizes besides this...
...scratch race-course in front of the boat house, was sufficiently broken up yesterday afternoon to allow members of the University crew to paddle about in pair-oared boats...
...recklessness of management, or needless expenditures cannot for a moment be maintained. I think I am right when I say that more money is spent yearly on the Yale crew than on the Harvard crew, and that, too, notwithstanding the fact that, owing to the race with Columbia, our crew is obliged to go much earlier to New London, where the expenses are heavy...
...first boat race of the present century took place in England in 1824 on the Lock between Exeter and the 'Varsity eight...
...very improbable that the Oxford-Cambridge race will be rowed over the usual course this year. Only two apertures are available in the Hammersmith bridge, and the boat which took the middle course would lose two or three lengths. It is proposed to row the race from Westminster to Putney, the course over which the race was rowed at the beginning of the contests...