Word: cinders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...steam-heatel. baseball cage on Soldiers Field is completed and ready for use. In addition to the facilities for baseball practice, the building contains two tracks, one cinder and one wood...
When Mr. Fortune discovers the lapse, he rebukes Lueli, lays hands on aboriginal deity. An earthquake and conflagration ensue. Lueli rescues Mr. Fortune, but the little wooden god becomes a cinder...
...years, is of a meet in 1875 in which President Lowell, then an undergraduate was proclaimed victor in both the mile and half mile. The record of 5 minutes 2 1-2 seconds which he set in the former race withstood the assaults of the Crimson trackmen until a cinder track greatly improved the conditions of running at Harvard...
...state of the old dirt track on Holmes Field was such that records in any way comparable to those made on present day, carefully tended cinder tracks were quite impossible...
...Irishman from the Bronx and two Englishmen heard a pistol shot, bolted down a cinder path, glided over wooden barriers (2½ ft. high) without wasting an inch of height. Critics said they were the best amateur low-hurdlers in the world. The Irishman, Johnny Gibson of Fordham University, won. His time for the 400-metre hurdles was 55 2/5 sec. Two yards behind him was Lord David George Brownlow Cecil Burghley of Cambridge University, who had been speedier two years ago. The other Cambridgian, T. C. Livingstone-Learmouth, who had led the way over half of the hurdles, finished...