Word: trails
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...hares shall carry paper, cut in pieces about two inches square, in bags sufficient to last the length of the run, and shall lay a plain trail, from start to finish...
...quarter of four fourteen men lined up in front of the gymnasium and started out to cover the five and a quarter miles in the quickest possible time. The course was the same as last year and was marked by a trail of paper, laid previously during the afternoon. The men started at a very fast pace and soon were separated into two squads. The three leaders kept well together the entire distance and the slower men struggled along about a quarter of a mile behind. The trail lay across the common to Concord avenue, to Walden street; thence across...
...Auburn Station for a third check; from Mount Auburn Station to the finish in front of the Law School. Prizes will be given the first three men in and the time of the first ten men at the finish will be taken. The course will be marked by a trail of paper...
...hounds run of the season was given yesterday afternoon. Notwithstanding the disagreeable weather, a number of men competed and made the run very successful. The hares were J. L. Coolidge '95 and D. W. Fenton 2nd '95 who covered the distance of about eight miles in one hour. The trail lay through Norton's woods and Somerville, down Prospect street, over the Brookline street bridge to Boston, across the sand pits to Harvard street, through Aliston, down Boylston street where a profusion of paper signaled the break. The hounds arrived fifteen minutes after the hares in the following order...
...five minutes of four, J. W. Schereschsky '95 and B. T. Fox '94 started out to lay the trail and were followed five minutes later by the pack of hounds. The course was between five and six miles and lay up Mt. Auburn street to Brattle, over the fields to Fresh Pond, up the Fitchburg Railroad tracks to Porters Station, where the men lined up and raced back to the gymnasium. Nichols was the first hound in and Blake was second with Beebe third. The hares covered the distance in fifty minutes while it took the hounds fourteen minutes more...