Word: scratching
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...other runners are not given starts. As evidence of this the English bicycle championshipr since 1879 have been made in slower time with one exception than 2.55 (while the record has been lowered from 2.46 in 1879 to 2.41 in 1882) simply because every-one started from scratch and no one was willing or could cut out the pace. Looking over the English records one finds more than half have been made in handicap races. For in a good handicap the scratch man has to do his best to win ; while, as is often the case here, in a scratch...
...those who entered for the scratch races can have their entrance fees returned by calling at Bartlett...
...Saturday morning the crowd began to collect at the boat house to see the scratch races. By 11-50 both the upper and the lower balconies of the boat house were crowded two or three deep along the edge, and a few were on the roof. The number on the balconies was greater than usual, as the crowd left the floats on account of the rain. At about 11-55, just as the four crews were drawing into line for the start at the lower bridge, the lower balcony suddenly gave away, at a point near the centre, the part...
...take part in the scratch races are requested to be on hand at the boat house at 11 o'clock...
Entries for the scratch races close todays at Bartlett's, at 12 o'clock...