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Captain Rice of the track team has received a challenge from the Yale Cross Country Club for a cross country race to be run on or about December second. The conditions are that there be from five to seven men on each team, and that the course be about seven miles in the vicinity of Cambridge. The challenge will in all probability be declined, because the men, who have not been training, could not get into condition by that time...
...been provisionally arranged that on the afternoon of November 17, these graded crews will race over the regular class crew course. It is likely that there will also be an additional crew from each club, so that all candidates for crews may have a chance to race. On the same afternoon it is intended that the Freshmen crews now in training at the two clubs shall race over the same course. This arrangement, with the exception of the interclub Freshmen races, is practically the same as that carried out last fall...
...Fletcher '87; in '86 by J. W. Wood '88; in '87 it was again won by J. B. Fletcher. It does not seem to have been rowed for in '88, but in '89 Finlay '91 was the winner. This is the last race recorded...
...race contempt of the Boers for the English is very rife. The unendurable condition of these despised Outlanders caused them to complain to the Queen, as British subjects, on the grounds that they had no share in the municipal government, no chance for naturalization, no rights for their school children, and were oppressed in every way. In the original establishment of the government, the Dutch had promised that the Boers and Outlanders should have equal rights and priviliges. This promise of course has been utterly disregarded...
...races were well contested, close and exciting. The only foul of the day came in the race of the compromise singles which was the first event. George, who was leading slightly, took Wheelwright's water just at the finish, so that Wheelwright was forced to run into him to keep from going ashore. George finished a half a length ahead, but the race was given to Wheelwright. The race for four oared shells was won by only ten feet with both crews spurting at a high stroke. The best event of the regatta was the race of the eight-oared...