Word: winning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There will be a Hare and Hounds Run on Thursday Nov. 1st, at 3.30 P. M. The start will be made from the grove of Mathews. The prizes which will be cups will be awarded as follows. If the hares win, one to each hare. If the hounds win one to each of the first two hounds. An entry book has been placed at Bartlett's and only those who enter before 12 M. on Thursday will be eligible for prizes. The entries will be free...
...Tuesday afternoon the Tennis Tournament revived slightly. In the singles, Presbrey defeated Sawin and then Pierson, thus winning the right to play the final set against Wheel-wright or Curtis today. In the doubles Hoyt and Taylor defeated Presbrey and Sawin, and by drawing a bye win a place in the finals. Their opponents are one of the following pairs...
...simply because every-one started from scratch and no one was willing or could cut out the pace. Looking over the English records one finds more than half have been made in handicap races. For in a good handicap the scratch man has to do his best to win ; while, as is often the case here, in a scratch race the best man does not even have to exert himself to win...
...Finally handicaps are a great means of bringing out new men and improving old. New men are often encouraged by beating a scratch man, go in again and keep at it until they themselves become scratch men, while the old men have to do their best to win, and hence are often wonderfully improved. But a word to scratch men. Don't feel disappointed if you are beaten. As an old English athlete, a man who had won and lost more races than any of our college athletes have, said, "It is more honor to get beaten off scratch than...
...hounds win if they come in within the difference between the times of staring. If one hound only succeeds in so doing he gets first, and the hares second prizes. If two hounds so succeed they get first and second prizes in the order in which they come...