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...class races have been made of too much account, and impose too great sacrifice upon the members of the crews. There is danger that our rowing interests here at home may fall under their own weight. Every one remarked the success in every desirable particular which attended the scratch races last fall. Let not the class races depart too far from that one extreme, and approach the other, where the exactions may be equal to those at tending a race with Yale or Columbia. To set the race early, at least four weeks before the final examinations begin...
Frye is to race Prince from the scratch on the bicycle at the Institute Fair building next Monday. It is expected that the record will be broken. The distance is ten miles...
...Trinity College sports, Cambridge, held the same day. F. G. L. Lucas, penalised 4 1/2 yards, finished second by half a yard in the one hundred-yards race, the time of the winner, E. P. Powell, being 10 1-5s. Lucas won the 120 yards handicap, from scratch, in 12 1-5s., finishing three yards in front of Powell, who had 1 1/2 yards start...
...joint meeting of the Manhattan Athletic Club and the Moseley Harriers will be held at Madison-square Garden, New York, on Thursday Dec. 13, commencing at 8 P.M. The following events are open to all amateurs : 60 yards run, handicap; 220 yards run, scratch, barring Myers and Brooks; quarter-mile run, handicap; half-mile run, handicap; one-mile run, scratch (for those who never won a prize at this distance); quarter-mile hurdle-race, handicap; one-mile walk, handicap; and ten-mile run, handicap. Silver cups will be given as prizes to first and second in each event except...
...good showing of the freshmen in the scratch races last Saturday morning, both in style of rowing and in numbers, has awakened an interest in their welfare. Although it is too early to prophesy much, still a glance at the candidates will show that there exists fine material from which hard work and strict attention may form an excellent eight. The men, however, must be cautioned that the strictest regularity in coming to the gymnasium is necessary; it will never do for a man to present himself for a day or two and then be absent for the rest...