Word: crack
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Fall Handicap games of the Columbia A. A., last Friday, five first prizes were won by men who have never before won a prize in athletics at Columbia. As very few of Columbia's crack athletes have left college the prospect for the intercollegiate games is encouraging...
...tournament was continued yesterday morning with the second round in the singles and the first in the doubles. Though the wind was cold, a large crowd of spectators witnessed the games. The surprise of the morning was the victory of Hovey of Brown over O. S. Cambell, the Columbia crack. The scores in the morning's games were as follows...
Among the riders entered for the races of the Berkley Athletic Club which come off tomorrow at Morris Dock on the Harlem, are Davis, Brown and Greenleaf of Harvard, and Clark of Yale. Wendell Baker, the crack sprinter, will be one of the time keepers...
...Columbia freshmen surprised every one on Decoration Day by beating the Dauntless eight, a "crack" New York crew, in a mile straightaway race on the Harlem river. The distance was covered...
...show to Yale and other colleges that if money is needed by Harvard organizations money will be forthcoming, even if it does take a little self-sacrifice and denial. Remember this, Harvard men, and do your share towards helping your crew to "show four miles of river to the crack New Haven crew" next June. And, as we have said before, do not wait to be called upon personally, but send or give your subscriptions in at once to the manager of the crew. He has so much on his hands that it is well-nigh impossible...