Word: feet
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Princeton's new base-ball cage is finished, and a short description of it may be of interest. The building is 140 feet long by 50 feet wide, 16 feet high at the sides and 26 at the highest point of the trusses, on which the roof is supported, or a mean height of 21 feet. There is afforded, therefore, an inclosed space of nearly 5,400 cubic yards. One end of the cage is doubly boarded to furnish a solid smooth surface for hand-ball practice. On the inside the ceiling is formed by wire netting, which extends...
...Yale's weekly meeting on Tuesday evening, H. G. Shearman, '89, broke the Yale record in the running high jump with a jump of 5 feet 7 1-2 inches...
...club has a handsome house on West 44th street, just off of Fifth avenue. The building occupies two city lots and comprises two stories of about 30 feet each. It is supplied with everything to make a completely equipped private club-house. In the sub-cellar are three regulation bowling alleys and the apparatus for steam heating, etc. The basement floor is occupied by a plunge-bath, fifty-six feet long by twelve wide, shower and needle baths and dressing rooms; also by a billiard room having four tables and a room for base-ball and tennis practice. The ground...
...entire third floor is occupied by the gymnasium, which is one hundred and one feet long by fifty wide. It is supplied with a complete set of gymnasium apparatus, chest weights, rowing weights, rings, bars, etc. A running track is constructed, encircling the entire room nine feet above the floor, having twenty laps to a mile. The floor of the track is bedded with prepared felt covered with canvas, which gives a firm elastic footing. In the floor of the gymnasium the lines of a tennis court are inlaid in white maple. All the gymnasium apparatus is arranged...
...trial contest in the gymnasium, Saturday afternoon, Pennypacker won in putting the shot with a put of 35 feet 6 inches...