Word: scratched
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...WINKLER, Secretary.THE winners in the fall scratch races, both senior and freshman eights can have their cups by calling at 21 Weld, between...
...Harvard team acquitted itself well, winning two first and two second prizes out of the six events for which men were sent. On Friday evening Miles, '88, won the half-mile easily in 2.08 1-2, off the 36-yard mark. Davenport, '90 (15 yards) and Cogswell (scratch) were fourth and fifth respectively. Lloyd of Yale (45 yards) was second...
...pole-vault was won by F. C. Walcott of Yale (1 ft. 3 in.), with an actual vault of 8 ft. 9 in. F. Mason, Harvard (1 ft. 3 in.), took second prize with an actual of 8 ft. 6 in. Shearman of yale (scratch) vaulted 9 ft. 6 in.; Leavitt of Harvard (scratch) 9 ft. The floor was so slippery as to make good vaulting almost impossible...
...only other event Friday evening which was of especial interest to college men was the tug-of-war between Columbia and Yale. Yale got the drop by an inch and held it for two minutes. Then Columbia brought the centre over the scratch and held it until the very end of the time, when Yale took an inch and a half and won by that amount...
...victories and celebrations of freshman year, and to have a jolly time generally; and all at the cost of a couple of dollars, though with the inducement of passing a very pleasant, profitable and sociable evening. We hope that the backward members of '89 will come to the scratch today and sign the book without more...