Word: racing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...second annual fall handicap road race of the Bicycle Club will occur this afternoon over the ten-mile course through North Cambridge, West Somerville and Arlington. The race will start at 4.10 sharp, and will finish on Garden street, in front of Christ Church. Riding on sidewalks in the race will not be allowed, and any contestant doing so will be ruled out. The first three men will receive cups. In order that the men may be properly checked by the checkers at Arlington, numbers will be given the men which must be worn on the chest. The handicaps...
...number of entries is very large and the handicaps are very liberal, the finish will be very close and exciting. Especial interest is felt in this race as the five men making the best time will constitute the Harvard team in the coming race with Technology...
...November. For each event there will be three prizes consisting of gold, silver or bronze medals. The events are as follows: 75-yards dash, 150-yards run, 300-yards run, 600-yards run, 1000-yards run, 2-mile run, quarter-mile walk, 4-mile walk, 200-yards hurdle race (12 hurdles, 2 ft. 6 in. high), one standing broad jump, three standing broad jumps, running hop, skip and jump, standing high jump, throwing 56-pound weight (thrown for height), kicking foot-ball (place kick), putting 24-pound shot, pole vaulting for distance...
Sixty yards dash, 440 yds run, 220 yds. hurdle, one and a half mile run, two mile bicycle race, one mile walk, one-half mile novice race. All the above events except the novice race will be handicaps, and will be contested under the rules of the Amateur Athletic Union. Gold and silver medals will be given to the winners...
...sandy deserts, which are inhabited by the roving Bedouin tribes. The Bedouins love the wild, untrammelled freedom of desert life, and despise the dwellers in the cities. Hence it is not surprising that only two cities, Mecca and Medina, exist within their borders. The three characteristics of the Arab race are, tribal isolation, love of poetry, and utter lack of religion. Union of the scattered tribes was impossible, and the people remained dormant for centuries, on account of the lack of combined effort. War was the business life and poetry the only unwarlike enjoyment, and, in fact, almost the only...