Word: scratches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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OPEN TO COLLEGE MEN ONLY.One-half mile dash, one mile scratch, three miles scratch...
...freshman team, pulling at 5.15, will probably be composed of Adams (capt.), H. T. Allen, Cabot, and Dewey (anchor). The other freshmen who pull are only scratch teams for the purpose of giving the team practice. It is difficult to get men to pull at all on the teams as the work is very hard, and so the captains deserve great credit in having so many men trying for the teams...
...bicycle tournament to be held in the Institute Fair building, Boston, on Thursday, Feb. 1. Prince and Frye will start from scratch in a ten-mile handicap race, in which Rollinson will receive 30s. and Harrison 40s. start, and others according to their abilities...
...class races have been made of too much account, and impose too great sacrifice upon the members of the crews. There is danger that our rowing interests here at home may fall under their own weight. Every one remarked the success in every desirable particular which attended the scratch races last fall. Let not the class races depart too far from that one extreme, and approach the other, where the exactions may be equal to those at tending a race with Yale or Columbia. To set the race early, at least four weeks before the final examinations begin...
Frye is to race Prince from the scratch on the bicycle at the Institute Fair building next Monday. It is expected that the record will be broken. The distance is ten miles...