Word: racing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...from Dartmouth, 7 from Princeton, 3 from Michigan, 2 from Swarthmore and 1 each from New York University, Fordham, Amherst, Columbia and Syracuse. The most remarkable feature of the trials was the equaling of the world's record of 15 1-5 seconds in the 120-yard hurdle race by Shaw of Dartmouth, thereby breaking Kraenzlein's intercollegiate record of 15 2-5 seconds. In the pole-vault Dray, Gilbert, and Nelson of Yale and Cook of Cornell all cleared 12 feet, thus breaking the intercollegiate record of 11 feet 11 3-4 inches held by Dray of Yale. Whitcher...
Tomorrow morning the Weld crew will race the Worcester High School crew over a mile and a half course on Lake Quinsigamond. The squad will leave Cambridge this afternoon and spend the night in Worcester...
Seats for the grandstand for the Harvard-Cornell boat race, to be rowed on the Charles River Saturday, are on sale at Wright & Ditson's and Herrick's, Boston, and Leavitt & Peirce's, Cambridge, at $2 each. The stand is situated near the finish of the race, on Back street, at the foot of Berkeley street, Boston, where the stand for the Columbia race was built last year. Bulletius of the start of the race will be announced...
...race for first four-oared shells was won by the Bachelor's Barge Club of Philadelphia in 7 minutes, 7 3-5 seconds, with Harvard second...
...Bissell 2L. won the Carroll Cup race on Saturday in 7 minutes, 48 and 3-5 seconds. The race was rowed with a favoring wind and tide over the mile course from just below Harvard Bridge, upstream, to the Longwood Bridge. Bissell took the lead at the start and held it easily to the end, finishing 3 lengths ahead of J. W. Hall '11. J. B. Chevalier 1G. was third. F. M. Rackemann '09, who finished fourth, spoiled his chances by running into the buttress of the bridge near the start. He rowed a splendid uphill race, however, and pushed...