Word: scratching
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting of the A. A. U. U. S. in Madison Square Garden last Saturday, Stead, '91, won the 440 yards dash from 15 yards mark in 54 seconds. The prize was a $150 stop watch. J. P. Lee, '91, was scratch in the 75 yards dash with 112 entries and won his first heat in the fastest time-8 1-5 seconds-of any first trial. He was also scratch in 220-yards with over fifty entries, and was third in final heat...
...Lincoln College (Oxford University, England) sports, the strangers' handicap at a quarter of a mile was won from scratch by Mr. F. J. K. Cross in 49 2-5 s., the quickest time on record for an Englishman at the distance. The honor of having eclipsed all others at a quarter of a mile belongs to Wendell Baker, formerly of Harvard, whose record of 47 3-4s. made at Beacon Park, Allston, in 1886, remains unbroken...
...handicap race around the lower reservoir for the Daniels cup took place Saturday. The distance is one and one-sixth miles. There were four starters, Davis '91 at the scratch, and the others with handicaps of from fifty to two hundred yards. Davis easily passed the other men and won in 3 minutes 19.3 seconds, beating the previous record. Immediately after the race Davis and Cornish made the same distance on a tandem safety in 3 minutes and 23 seconds, which is also a new record...
...lower basin, about 1 1-6 miles, and bicycles must weigh over 34 lbs. The entrance fee of one dollar each will go towards buying the prizes for first and second place. Besides these prizes a medal will be given to the man making the best time from the scratch. Entries must be sent on or before Nov. 22 to Charles P. Daniels, Boston, Y. M. C. A. Gymnasium...
...Davis '91, scratch not taken...