Word: racing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Eliot Norton is said to be ill in New York and unable to ride in the bicycle race this afternoon...
...race for the Epsom gold cup of five hundred sovereigns in plate or specie for three-year-olds and upwards was won by Lefevre's horse Tristran, Hamilton's colt City Arab second, Ellesmere's horse Wallenstein third...
...race for the Oaks stakes was won by Bonny Jean, with Malibran second, Ettarre third...
There are eight entries in the bicycle race...
...inter-collegiate sports we have good entries to make in the mile, half-mile, mile walk, bicycle race, running broad jump and tug-of-war. Formerly, when the I. C. A. A. was just started, the university used to win about as many events as any other college, but now we only average one first prize a year. Although we derived consolation when the dead heat was pulled with the winners of the tug-of-war last year, from our bad luck in drawing for the trial heats - alone preventing us from winning, as we really had the strongest team...