Word: scratches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Members of the Shooting Club will meet for rifle practice at Walnut Hill to-day. If enough men are present, scratch teams will be chosen for a team match...
...that it gives the batsman a fairer show to hit the ball, and will tend to greatly raise the batting averages which were so low last year. It will also make the games more exciting and interesting than those of last year, where in some cases two or three scratch hits were all that were made...
...open events will be a one-mile, three mile and five mile scratch bicycle race. And a one mile scratch try cycle race...
...mile run was a handicap race. Seven men started; three, scratch; one, 75 yards; three, 100 yards. Among those on the scratch was E. H. Thompson, '87. The race was not very exciting. Thompson, who ran steadily, constantly gained on the men who had a start given them, and won the race handsomely in 4 minutes 46 7-8 seconds. Mr. Thompson ought to make a much lower record on a good track with rounded corners and some one to press...
...Then the June regattas of the Union club are useful whenever they can get anything to match our eight. When the last of June comes and the final races, our men have had many faults, which can only be ascertained in this way, eradicated, and therefore come to the scratch as nearly perfect as possible...