Word: racing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Everything seemed favorable on Saturday afternoon for the annual race meeting of the Bicycle Club. The afternoon was pleasant and warm, while the slight breeze that blew across the field was not strong enough to trouble any of the riders. The benches were well filled, over 400 spectators being present when the first race was called. Among the spectators were delegations of wheelmen from all the principal clubs in the vicinity, who stacked their machines beneath the willows at the eastern end of the track and behind the long rows of seats...
FIRST HEAT.There were nine entries for this race which was run in three heats. Only four men started, however. The first heat was between E. Norton, '85, and George M. Hendee of Springfield. Both men got off well at the report of the pistol, though Hendee had a slight advantage. At the end of the first lap, Hendee was a length and a half ahead; at the end of the second lap, barely a length; on the third lap he drew away to his first lead of a length and a half, but Norton spurted on the home-stretch...
Tomorrow the Bicycle club will hold their annual races, using for the first time the new track on Holmes' field. The officers of the club have labored long and diligently to make the meet a success, and from the number of entries and the care with which the arrangements have been made, there can be but little doubt that the races of tomorrow will eclipse in interest all those previously held under the auspices of the club. Last year the club was compelled to resort to the track on Beacon Park, because the college would not allow the organization...
...Columbia University crew is to row a two-mile race with the freshman crew of that college some day this week, and as both crews have new shells, many venture to say that the freshman crew will cross the line ahead of the Columbia representative crew...
...advanced that an intelligent view may be taken of the possibilities. Princeton and Dartmouth, having won only one game each, certainly have no chance. Brown with three games lost and four to play, two of these with Yale and Amherst, may be counted out of the race. This leaves Yale, Amherst and Harvard; either of these may possibly win, but Yale, with only one game decided against her, stands the best chance...