Word: track
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...believe in having the new track used as a place to learn to ride the bicycle, as it was on Friday afternoon...
...generally known that Georges' time for the mile in his last race with Snook, 4.26 1-4, was made on a grass track. On this sort of a track we believe this time is the fastest on record...
...Hendee, beat A. H. Robinson in a ten mile bicycle race on Saturday. The track was rough so that the time was very slow...
...interest in bicycling at Harvard College is increasing, and by next year the college will have a large representation of riders. Claflin, Deam, Norton, Thompson and Hitchcock are all well known racing men, and they will be hard to beat. The new track will have raised corners, and will be ready early in the spring. It is considered by the prominent racing men around Boston to be the fastest track in this county...
...success it should keep these two objects in view; the one, to form a team for competition; the other to give advantages for the practice of a capital sport to a large number of men, whoar physically or otherwise incapable of joining in base ball, foot ball or track athletics. Both these objects can better be secured by getting a range, (there are several,) nearer the university than Walnut Hill, where we believe the club proposes to shoot because of the advantage of having a 800, a 900 and a 1000yd. range. Now there are not more than...