Word: scratching
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Boat Club Scratch Races...
...BURGESS.Directly after the Scratch races the classes will meet at the following places: '87 in front of Thayer; '88 in front of Holworthy; '89 in front of Stoughton; and '90 in front of Hollis. Promptly at 11.15 they will march to Sanders Theatre. No undergraduate will be admitted to the exercises unless entering with his class...
...best point from which to see the scratch races on Saturday, Nov. 6th, will be the river bank between the boat-house and the bridge below, as the boats will finish at the bridge. The order of events will be the senior eights, the single sculls, and finally the freshman eights; and all contestants must be at the boat-house by 10 on Saturday morning...
...Boat Club Scratch Races. 1-4 mile course. (a) Upper class eight-oars. (b) Freshman eight-oars. (c) Single scull shells. (d) Single scull working boats or single canoes...
...YARDS DASH.Brown, '90, 12 yards; Rogers, '87, scratch; Merrill, '89, 8 yards; Thayer, '88, 10 yards. Rogers did not attempt to pass his man until the scratch was reached. Then he fairly flew, and won in 23 1-2 seconds. Merrill was second...