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...Thanksgiving Day at 10.30 a. m. the Boston Athletic Association will give a Cross Country Run (Scratch), open to all amateurs. The course will be about six (6) miles, and the start and finish will be at the Club House, Exeter Street. Prizes will be given to the first six men. Entries will close on Wednesday, November 26, at 8 p. m., and must be made on the B. A. A. Entry Blank. They are to be sent, accompanied by a fee (25 cents), to H. S. Cornish, Exeter Street...
This afternoon the eleven will start for Springfield. They will leave Boston by the Boston and Albany road on the four o'clock train, reaching their destination at about seven o'clock. They will stay at Mrs. Gardner's over night. The following men will go down: Cumnock (captain), Upton, Finlay, Cranston, P. Trafford, Newell, Hallowell, Dean, Corbelt, Lake, B. Trafford, Mason, Alward, Shaw, Bangs, Shea, Crosby, Heard, Harding, Fearing, Lee, Sherwin, Blanchard, Frothingham...
...hare and hounds run yesterday afternoon the hares' time at the start was reduced to five minutes, and they were required to come in twelve minutes ahead of the first hound in order to win. H. A. Davis, '91, and A. Blake, '93, the hares, left the gymnasium at 4.06. About twenty hounds, under T. P. King, '91, as master, followed the trail, which ran almost in a circle around Harvard Square, across back yards to the North Cambridge claypits, and down the Fitchburg track to Porter's Station. They lost time on the many doubles, and did not return...
...Chesthut Hill course. The handicapping was done by a committee of six bicycle men and was fairly satisfactory, although the scratch men were unable to catch up enough to win a place. Davis '91 and G. F. Taylor '92 were the only scratch men, as Greenleaf '92 didn't start. O. B. Hawes '93, had a handicap of two minutes, P W. Davis '93, two minutes and twenty econds; T. Barron '91, three minutes, F. S. Olmsted '94, three minutes and a half, P. H. Hockstader '93, five minutes and a half, C. T. Keller '94, F. S. Pratt...
Sixteen men have entered for the race. The handicaps have been unusually carefully arranged and the race cannot but prove close and exciting. Those desiring to witness the start and finish can take the electric car from Barry's Corners which is just across the Boylston Bridge-a few minutes' walk from Harvard Square...