Word: racing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...five mile race between Taylor and Delaney is being arranged...
...Rood of Columbia lately won a road race on bicycles. The distance was 14 3-4 miles and Mr. Rood rode this distance in 1 hour 4 minutes...
...following is a sample of how they do things in Manitoba: "A ten mile race was run here yesterday by George Irvine and Little Plum, son of the Chief of the Blackfeet. A number of fouls occurred, and finally Irvine knocked the Indian down, and severely injured him by stamping on his wrist with spiked shoes. Nevertheless, the Indian regained his feet and pluckily renewed the race, winning by five yards in fifty-five minutes...
Concerning the one-hundred-yards invitation-scratch-race between J. M. Cowie, London A. C., and F. T.Ritchie, Moseley Harriers, which took place at Lillie Bridge, London, Oct. 20, under very favorable weather conditions, The Sporting Life has this...
...over what they deemed the degeneracy of boating at Harvard. The time too, which was selected for the experiment seemed most unfortunate, for we lost our stroke and so many changes were made in the boat that the crew was finally selected only about three weeks before the Columbia race. Yet it has very generally been conceded that in point of style and finish the crew of 1883 was inferior to no eight Harvard has ever had. The experiment certainly seemed a success. This year a new plan has been adopted,-a compromise between the old one of training...