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Four thousand additional seats have been constructed on the straight stretches of the cinder track within the Stadium. Including the 3,000 seats already constructed on the curve of the track, the total seating capacity of the Stadium for the Dartmouth game will be over...
...third, when the Green eleven will face Cornell on one of the new gridirons. Plans for the new athletic field provide for full facilities for football, baseball, hockey, track and tennis. Three gridirons and two baseball diamonds are being laid out in addition to 11 new tennis courts, a cinder track with a straight-away and a hockey rink...
Miss Helen Wills, national women's tennis champion: "In an $8,000,000 fire at Berkeley, Calif., where I live, 45 square blocks of the city's most beautiful homes were devastated and I was treated at the Emergency Hospital for blistered feet and a cinder...
...height to the trusses is to be 42 feet. Outside the playing field are to be two tracks, each 12 feet wide, and having 12 laps to the mile with banks at the turns. One will be placed at the same level as the playing field and have a cinder surface. The other track is to be directly above with a wood floor suspended from the roof trusses. This track may be used as a spectators' gallery. Provision will also be made for jumping, hurdling, and shot-putting lanes...
Twenty-one and two-tent's horse power in a test of 25 feet on a cinder-surfaced road were developed by Cap and King, a pair of 10-year-old Percheron geldings, in unique pulling tests at the Iowa State Fair, Des Moines. By means of a hydraulic wagon, or dynamometer, recently invented, the "tractive pull" of horse teams was determined with scientific accuracy for the first time. This is the kind of energy required to pull a varying weight out of a hole in the ground. The winning pair exerted a maximum tractive pull of 2,300 pounds...