Word: dashings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rumored Specifications. With what purported to be bona fide information, Detroit newspapers last week described the new motor car to be produced by the Ford Motor Co. as having for standard equipment a self-starter, five wire wheels, speedometer, windshield wiper, gasoline gauge, oil gauge, dash light, Houdaille shock absorbers and four-wheel brakes; 34-h.p. engine; gearshift transmission; 104-inch wheel base; selling-price from $450 for the touring model, to $490 for the Fordor sedan and coup...
With the list of events in Friday's meet limited to seven. Coach Farrell is entering his charges, in only four events. All the regular contests are handicap affairs. An invitation 100 yard dash, with A. B. Miller '27 opposed by Hussey of Boston College and Quinin of Holy Cross has been called off because of the inability of the two latter men to compete at this time. Miller, will, however, enter the regular 100 scheduled for the meet unless he is unable to run on account of the leg injury which he sustained in the Intercollegiates on Franklin Field...
...meet by a 5 to 4 score-only first places counting and only nine events being scheduled. Since this first encounter between the Oxford-Cambridge and Harvard-Yale track representatives six events have been added to the usual college list and all of these except the 220 yard dash have been incorporated in the meet between these joint teams. Thirty years ago the emphasis was largely on running events, the high and broad jumps and two weight throws being the only field contests. But even these seemed too many to the purely track athlete of the nineties...
...Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America, held at Philadelphia. This year it was Stanford. Southern California, last year's champions, finished in fourth place, chiefly because it produced a sturdy youngster named Charles Borah, who left his nearest competitor ten yards behind in the 220-yard dash, four yards behind in the 100-yard dash...
French, recently added to the broad-jump entrants, has been the leading jumper on the University squad this spring, but pulled a tendon in the heats of the 100-yards dash in the Harvard Yale dual meet...