Word: ridden
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...spring road race of the Harvard Bicycle club will be held next Saturday afternoon at the Chestnut Hill Reservoir. The course is six times around the reservoir, seven miles in all. This will be a handicap race, with very liberal handicaps, especially to those who have never ridden in races before. The race is open to all members of the University, but prizes will be awarded to those members only who are members of the Bicycle club. The prizes will consist of handsome silver cups, and their number will depend altogether upon the number of entries. As there...
...been the custom heretofore for the college marshals in torchlight processions to go on horseback, but as only one of the nine marshals of the upper classes recently elected has ever ridden a horse, this part of the ceremony will be omitted this fall...
...said that the fastest amateur bicyclist in the country is W. E. Crist, of Washington. During the past season he has ridden in fifty races, winning thirty-eight first prizes and eight second prizes...
...meeting commenced promptly at 2.30, with the two-mile bicycle race, by H. Merrill, '90. the only entry, ridden to break the record of Dean, '88, 6 minutes and 28 seconds. The first mile was 3 minutes and 12 seconds, just two miles, 6 minutes and 31 seconds, just three seconds slower than the previous record. This is a great improvement over the record made last fall. The runners in the first heat of the 100-yards dash were J. W. Merrill, '89, H. R. Miles, '88, E. C. Stowell, '88, G. S. Mandell, '89, There was a close brush...
...sale. - A 52 inch Columbia Bicycle which the owner has ridden three seasons. Very Cheap. Apply at 38 Holyoke House...