Word: development
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Monday, October 21, at 4 p. m. The events will be a one-half mile scratch, a two mile handicap and a one mile scratch. This meeting will be open to riders in the University only, as the object is to increase interest in bicycle racing and to develop material for the Mott-Haven team...
...management is making every effort to develop new material. No man on the first eleven is sure of his position. Candidates will be given every opportunity to show what they can do. There are a dozen men in college who have not appeared on the field who have every physical qualification for playing the game, with proper training. These men refrain from practice, some from lack of college spirit, some from selfish motives, and some from pure laziness...
...played last week and resulted in a tie between the juniors and seniors, each of these classes having won two games and lost one, but as the seniors defeated the juniors during the games, they will probably claim the college championship. Quite a lot of new material which may develop into something promising next spring was brought out in these games...
Williams College will have a strong eleven in the field this fall. The number of candidates for the team is unusually large, and most of the material is promising. Several important positions must be filled, and Captain Hickey will have to develop several new men. He is an earnest worker and hopes to fill the vacancies acceptably...
...companion in the 100 yards, E. H. Wilding, is tall but slight in build. His style is more graceful than Gormer Williams's, but he has not much power, and does not develop any more speed. It is probable that the Yale pair opposed to these two will be Byers and Burnett. In condition, both are good for 10 1-5 seconds, while neither of the Cambridge representatives at their best are better than 10 2-5 seconds. Byers last spring in the Intercollegiates was good enough to lead Crum at eighty yards, and he is now running stronger...