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THERE is every prospect that the Spring Races, which are to be rowed to-morrow, will be the most interesting and successful that Harvard has ever seen. For over two months the five eight oared crews have been in training, and for the last five weeks have been on the river daily. The sight of five eight-oared crews in line is of itself worth going several miles to see; but when the race between them is as close as that of to-morrow seems likely to be, the interest ought to be very great. Of the five crews...
Union Athletic Club of Boston. The fourth annual Spring Games, open to all amateurs, will be held at the Boston Base Ball Grounds, on Saturday, May 24, 1879, at 3 P. M. Entries will close Friday, May 16. The programme will be as follows, unless circumstances demand a change...
...York Athletic Club. The tenth annual Spring Games, open to amateurs, will take place at Mott Haven on Friday, May 30 (Decoration Day), commencing at 2.15 P. M. Entries close Saturday, May 24. The following games will be contested...
...tended to mar the sport, and spoiled what bid fair to be an exciting race between the two champions. This will probably be the last chance that Lee and Wendell will have to meet in the Intercollegiate Sports, as the former graduates from the University of Pennsylvania this spring. A match for a gold medal is talked about by the friends of both parties, the result of the race to depend on a single heat. It seems advisable, however, to some of Wendell's friends that the trial should be the best two in three heats, as Lee's incomparable...
...Spring Races will take place on Saturday, May 17, at 10 A. M., over the Charles River course. The race for Senior Scullers will come first; prize, a solid silver cup. The Junior Scullers will come next; prize, a silver-plated cup. No one can row in this race who has ever rowed before in a race open to all, whether under college auspices or not. The distance will be one mile straight-away, instead of one mile and a half with turn, as previously announced. The third race will be for class eight-oared shells, open to all classes...