Word: scratching
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...entries in the book at Bartlett's for the scratch races are rapidly increasing. Pewter mugs will be given as prizes to the winning crews...
...proposal to revive the old-fashioned "scratch" races at Harvard, we consider an excellent one. Besides affording much harmless sport and amusement to both spectators and contestants, they serve in a measure to keep alive through the fall an interest in boating on the Charles. The races proposed are set for Saturday next and are practically free for all. It is to be hoped that enough entries will be made to insure the event and to make it of sufficient excitement and interest. As practically a novelty a large attendance is assured, provided enough are found of sufficient patriotism...
...there will be no class race this fall it is proposed to revive the scratch races which used to afford so much amusement to the aquatic students. The following are the arrangements for the course and entries...
...Myers participated, but he won no prize except in the consolation race, being so heavily handicapped as to render it almost an impossibility for him to beat the other contestants. Myers was entered for a 440 yards' run, handicap, and he was the only man who toed the scratch, the competitor that stood nearest to him having a start of 25 yards, and the one furthest from him having a start of 60 yards. There were 11 entries, and when the signal go was given Myers started like a deer, rapidly passing one runner after another. Had the race been...
...arms, by the way, is quite peculiar and characteristic - uncomfortably so, Miss Winnie thinks. There is a light-green barrel of petroleum surmounted by a bull which knowingly winks his right eye; one hoof is raised to the side of the nose for some unaccountable reason - probably wants to scratch it. The petition has evidently been carefully sealed in an envelope that seems to have been opened by some skeleton hand. The paper had a sulphurous smell, but for what reason we can not divine - for what there is about a sealed envelope to make people swear - but never mind...