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...simple comparison of last Saturday's times with Harvard performances is misleading because Princeton ran on Penn's "Tartan" track, a composition of cork and rubber which is faster than Harvard's cinder surface...
...marshals grim details to demonstrate that no man would take to the road for any reason but dire necessity. In the heyday of rail travel, there were homicidal "cinder dicks" like trigger-twitchy Jeff Carr, who operated out of Cheyenne, Wyo., and got his kicks by galloping along a slow-moving freight taking pot shots at hoboes with his six-gun. Those who survived ran into a different danger in trackside camps. Homosexuality was rampant, and Allsop insists that The Big Rock Candy Mountain, the hobo's anthem, is really "a homosexual tramp serenade," one of "the 'ghost...
Harvard's sudden and complete domination of intercollegiate track was traced to two factors: the completion of a five-lap cinder track on Harvard's Jarvis Field and Evert J. Wendell '28's appearance at Harvard. Wendell's enthusiasm and organizational knack put Harvard track on its feet, and his talent gave the Crimson its first victory in the Intercollegiates. In the 1880 meet, Wendell himself won three of the six first places--in the 100, which he ran in 10 seconds flat long before the advent of the crouching start...
...everything was ready for the opening; plastic still fills some paneless shop windows, and some cinder-block walls are as yet unpainted. But Snowmass was booked to its 1,000 capacity. And to frost the cake, a blanket of feathery snow drifted down over the slopes as the first guests arrived...
...final dash, the escapee must cross the new version of the old Death Strip. This is now, variously, a 100-ft. lawn or a cinder covering, where powerful mercury-vapor lamps make even the most fleeting figure an easy target at night. In some places, there is the added hazard of hidden 6-in. steel spikes. In the unlikely event that he gets this far, the escapee finds himself before the New Wall itself. It is not only smoother and higher (15 ft. v. 9-12 ft.) than its predecessor but is topped by a 15-in.-wide pipe that...