Word: racing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Boston Athletic Association will hold its nineteenth annual indoor handicap games in Mechanics Hall, Boston, at 7.15 o'clock this evening. The schedule includes eleven regular events, for which about 375 entries have been received, as well as fourteen relay races, in which about 190 men have been entered. Harvard will be represented in all but one of these events. Other colleges which have sent entries are: Yale, Cornell, Columbia, Dartmouth, Brown, Amherst, Williams, Wesleyan, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. There will be fourteen relay races, including those between the University team and Yale, the Harvard Freshmen and Yale freshmen...
Arrangements have been completed by the University crew management for the race against Cornell. The date set is Saturday, May 30, at 2 o'clock and the race will be rowed over the regular course on the Charles River, probably downstream...
This will be the fourth annual race rowed against Cornell. The University crew lost in 1905 by six and one-half lengths, in 1906 by three lengths, and last year was defeated on Lake Cayuga in a very close race by three-quarters of a length...
...glad to learn that another crew race has been arranged with Cornell. Unfounded newspaper comment had given an impression, even in the minds of those who should have known better, that these respected rivals were to be omitted from our rowing schedule this year. Although these reports were promptly denied, it is gratifying to learn that the race is now a certainly, and that we are to have an opportunity of repaying the hospitality that was shown our athletes and musicians in Ithaca last year...
...follows: Two-mile run, scratch; invitation 40-yard dash, scratch; putting 12-pound shot, scratch; 440-yard run, novice; one-mile run, 60-yard limit; 1,000-yard run, 50-yard limit; 600-yard dash, 30-yard limit; 40-yard dash, 9-foot limit; 45-yard high hurdle race, 3 flights, 3 feet, 6 inches high, 9-foot limit; putting 16-pound shot, 6-foot limit; high-jump, 6-inch limit. Competitors must show that they have put the 16-pound shot 38 feet and high-jumped 5 feet, 3 inches, in competition in order to qualify for these events...