Word: fiasco
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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NOTHING of interest has happened lately in Athletic circles. Every one has read of, and been disgusted with, the Hanlan-Courtney fiasco. Ross added one more defeat to his already long list, being easily defeated by Riley, in a race rowed on the Thames, October 21. Merrill and Duffy carried off the prizes in the three-mile walk and one-mile run, at the Amateur Championship of Canada Meeting, October...
...either of these alternatives be chosen, it would do but little to allay the existing ill-feeling. Those who look upon the last election as the result of a coalition will hardly feel satisfied while the present officers retain their positions; and those who pretend to regard the late fiasco as a fair election will not probably be appeased by the removal of their favorites. Harmony cannot be obtained in either case. There is, however, another course which in the present state of affairs forces itself upon the attention of the class. This course is to abolish Class Day altogether...