Word: tandem
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...mile tandem safety, scratch (open). 1st prize, two brass standing lamps; 2d prize, two stop watches; 3d prize, two engraved silver cups...
...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...
...first event was a race between tandem birch canoes, one miles with turn, in which there were three entries: (1) C. Greene, '89, and Vaughan, '90; (2) Townsend, '89, and Holder, '88; (3) Deblois, '89, and Marquand, '89. The race was well contested, Greene and Vaughan winning in 11m. 8 1-2s. Townsend and Holder were a close second...
...second race was for tandem wooden canoes for one mile with a turn. The entries were as follows: Stokes. '91 and Winthrop, '91; Herrick, '90 and Payson, '90; Crehore, '90 and Amory, '90; Potter, '91 and M. Williams, '91; Parker, '89 and Pulsifer, '90. This race was the closest of the day, Herrick and Payson finishing only a few feet ahead of Crehore and Amory. The time was 10 min. 14 1-2 sec. Considerable interest was added to the race by the capsizing of both the freshman canoes. Stokes and Winthrop went overboard at the stake, Potter and Williams...
...Harvard Canoe Club will take place this afternoon at 3 o'clock. There will be four races: First, an open race for sailing canoes over a triangular course of two miles; second, an open paddling race for single canoes, one mile with turn; third, an open paddling race for tandem canoes, one mile, with turn; fourth, paddling race for tandem birches, one mile with turn...