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...Rust, Ashe and Briggs. Rust won with Ashe second, it was evident that Ashe was merely trying for a place in the final heat. Time 11 3-4s. The next event, the one mile run, had three entries, Webster, Ayer and Remington. Remington did not come up to scratch, and the race lay between the other two. The first four laps were slow and uninteresting, but the last lap was well and pluckily fought. Webster won in 5m. 31 2-5s. with Ayer a good second...
...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...
...always has a chance in a handicap, while in a limit race he might really be too poor to have any chance at all. Finally handicaps are a great means of bringing out new men and improving old. New men are often encouraged by beating a scratch man, go in again and keep at it until they themselves become scratch men, while the old men have to do their best to win, and hence are often wonderfully improved. But a word to scratch men. Don't feel disappointed if you are beaten. As an old English athlete...
...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...