Word: trails
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...hares laid the trail behind the Jefferson Laboratory and doubling in Norton's woods continued on over through Somerville across the Fitchburg tracks to the Boston and Maine. They then ran up the bed of the railroad to West Cambridge and over to Fresh Pond, and from there down Concord Avenue to the Gymnasium...
...prizes. J. D. Stults (handicap 4 min.) finished second; J. L. Dodge (handicap 1 min.) finished fourth; A. Blake (handicap 1 min. 20 sec.) finished sixth; J. Manley (scratch) finished twelfth, and H. A. Davis (handicap 2 min. 35 sec.) finished thirteenth. Blake and Manley lost the trail, and were considerably delayed...
...reduced to five minutes, and they were required to come in twelve minutes ahead of the first hound in order to win. H. A. Davis, '91, and A. Blake, '93, the hares, left the gymnasium at 4.06. About twenty hounds, under T. P. King, '91, as master, followed the trail, which ran almost in a circle around Harvard Square, across back yards to the North Cambridge claypits, and down the Fitchburg track to Porter's Station. They lost time on the many doubles, and did not return to the gymnasium until 5.26, twenty-three minutes later than the hares...
...hounds run yesterday wac delayed by the neglect of the H. A. A. to provide paper for scent. When the hares, H. A. Davis, 91, and J. Manley, '93, finally started, it was already growing dark. About thirty hounds, under T. P. King, '91, as master, followed the trail to the Longfellow estate and back to Norton's woods, and there were thrown off by a double. They could not find the scent again on account of darkness, and returned, G. Lowell, '92, coming in first. The hares won the hunt as they continued through Somerville, North Cambridge, and Dublin...
...hare and hounds, it may not be out of place to state that these runs are open to all members of the university. They require no training, and form a most enjoyable means of exercise to men who are not working with any team. The pleasure of following the trail at an easy pace through fields and gardens, across fences and ditches, up hill and down, can be appreciated only by those who have experienced it. The amusing incidents of each run, the new scenes visited only on such occasions, and the bracing air and exercise make the sport...