Word: racing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting of the Bicycle Club last evening was attended by about thirty members. The secretary presented the challenge received from the Tech. Club for a road race. The challenge was accepted for April 13, and a committee composed of Brown, '91, Davis, '91, and Greenleaf '92, was appointed to meet a similar committee from Tech. to arrange the details of the race. It was voted that the Harvard club suggest to Tech. the establishment of a regular annual race for a perpetual challenge cup, the cup to be subscribed for jointly by the clubs. The joint committee will meet...
...bicycle club is one of the most flourishing athletic organizations at Technology. It is considered a fast riding club. C. H. Warner, '89, holds the Institute record; Bradlee, '90, and Williston, '89, are also fast men. An other race will be held with the Harvard club some time during the spring when it is hoped that Tech's representatives will be more fortunate than they were last fall
...mile walk in 7 minutes, 41 seconds, handicap of 50 seconds. V. Mapes, of Columbia, won the 50 yards dash in 6 seconds, handicap 12 feet. Company B pulled Columbia one half inch in the tug of tug-of-war contest. B. G. Woodruff of Yale, won the obstacle race in 1 minute, 21 seconds...
...hoped that the Bicycle Club will accept the challenge received from the Tech. Cycling Club to a road race next month. The race last November, which was won by Harvard, was very close and exciting. The training undergone since that race and the extra exertion which Tech. will surely make, will increase her chances, so as to leave the result of a second race very much in doubt. It could not fail to be more closely contested and exciting than the one last fall...
Tech's action in sending a return challenge makes it seem possible to establish a regular semi-annual race between the clubs. Such an arrangement would be greatly to the advantage of both clubs. They are the only college wheeling clubs in this vicinity, and this would tend to bring them into much closer contact. The friendly rivalry aroused would be most stimulating and beneficial to both organizations...