Word: finishing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...bicycle road race between Harvard and Technology will take place next Saturday afternoon. The start will be promptly at 2.30 and the race will take about an hour. The finish will be near St. Mary's street, on the Beacon street boulevard. There will probably be a large number of entries from each club, but only the first five men from each side will count at the finish. There will be a run over the course today and Thursday in order that the competitors may become familiar with the turns. The joint committee have considered the question of a perpetual...
...early now-in fact it usually is too early until the class races are half over, to predict the order in which the crews will finish. Eighty-nine is perhaps the favorite, but both Ninety and Ninety-one are looked upon as possible winners. Ninety-two is pretty generally expected to come in last, but the freshmen may have a surprise in store for the upper-classmen...
...showed a great tendency to close in, so that in the first round there were thirteen clinches and only about three fair blows. McPherson struck hard, and drew blood early in the third round. The advantage was so clearly on his side that it was not considered necessary to finish the bout...
...four games won and one lost, insures them a place in the final round. Victories for R. C. Harrison, and P. J. Harrison over H. H. Baker and F. P. Denny, and also over H. Webster and J. Crane, were reported In section A, Baker and Denny have finished their games with a score of two games won and three lost, and Hale and Stetson, three won, two lost. Section B promises to be closely contested. P. K, Brown and E. A. Darling were the first to finish, with a score of two won, two lost...
...Very irregular and should get better control of himself in better parts of the stroke. He is slow in getting his arms away at the finish...