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...handicap races perhaps does not touch on the main advantage of handicap races :-First, that it improves the pace, second, that it gives a chance to everybody, and third, that it makes and improves every sort of athlete. That handicap races tend to improve the pace and increase record-breaking can not be doubted. Over and over again have we seen our champion runners leaving their opponents in the rear, so much that there was no interest in the race. Now if these second rate opponents had been given starts, there would have been a good race and fast time...
...Claflin, Harvard and Massachusetts Bicycle clubs, and Mr. H. D. Corey, Massachusetts Bicycle club, started last Wednesday night at 12 o'clock in an attempt to break the road record for twenty-four hours. In the early morning Mr. Claflin got a severe header, bruising and cutting himself badly, and though he pluckily rode over seventy miles more he was forced to give up at Newburyport, having ridden in all 107 miles in 10 3-4 hours. Mr. Corey continued and by 12 o'clock Thursday night had ridden 190 9-10 miles, thus beating the record by over...
...athletics during the season of 1883-84. football, lawntennis, lacrosse, baseball, boating, bicycling and cricket and track athletics have begun with a boom, and the prospect is excellent for even a more successful season than last year. Victorious on the river, in athletics, bicycling and lacrosse, with a record to be proud of and with a standard in base-ball, cricket and foot-ball in every way creditable, it stands ahead of any other college in the country...
There is a rumor afloat that there is to enter the mile run at the freshman meeting a man who has previously made a record...
...George beat W. Snook on Saturday, easily making the mile in 4:26 1-4. George failed to beat his record made last week of 4:19 3-5, the best on record for an amateur. The professional best on record is 4:16 1-5 made by Cummins...