Word: racing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...annual races of the Canoe Club will take place in the basin on Monday, May 28th, and it is expected that there will be a large number of entries. The races will consist of a sailing race over a two mile triangular course, paddling races for single canoes and tandems, and also one for birch canoes. These latter will be over a one mile course. The prizes offered will be a pennant for the sailing race, and medals for the others. A second prize will be given if there are four starters, in any one race. In the evening there...
...dash, W. Norton, 11 1-4s,; 120 yards dash, F. L. Keay, 20s.; throwing the hammer, E. J. Bodwell, 74 ft. 6 in.; half mile run, H. B. Prescott, 2 m. 14s.; 220 yards dash, F. E. Gove, 25s.; one-mile walk, C. S. Humphreys, 9m. 52s.; hurdle race (120 yards), F. L. Keay. 20s. Dartmouth will be well represented in the tournament at Worcester next week, and is confident of winning the cup again this year...
Although Bell was beaten in the hurdle race at Cedarhurst by Copeland, the amateur champion, he broke his own and the Harvard record, making the distance in 17 1-2 seconds...
...four oared barge race between fat men and lean men, three quarters of a mile...
...eight oared shell race, two miles straight-away, between the juniors, sophomores and freshmen, the sophomores were victorious, with the freshmen a close second. The time...