Word: gated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greeting to the 39 who pawed the mark, then settled back to wonder how the 39 could possibly endure such searing heat. Out of the Stadium went the runners, to dusty roads, to sunbaked fields. Half an hour later Nurmi's lithe effortless figure came through the Marathon Gate, followed shortly by the indefatigable Ritola and by Earl Johnson (stalwart U. S. Negro), by a sun-stricken, staggering, vomiting, fainting rabble. Only 15 of the 39 finished. Just outside the Stadium many lay prostrate, nigh dead, in a hollow by some tennis courts where the sun was furnace...
...bugle-blast rang out at the Marathon Gate. Into the Stadium loped Stenroos, a little Finnish woodcarver, still perky after 26 miles over hill and dale. He was crowned King of the Games with a laurel wreath, after an Italian, an American, another Finn, a Briton, a Chilean crawled...
Figures: Attendance, 45,000; gate, $200,000; for the Milk Fund...
Eleven starters competed for the Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park. At 4 o'clock on a summery afternoon the bugle blew and 50,000 eyes turned to the gate from the paddock to watch the procession up the track. At the starting post Harry F. Sinclair's Mad Play, the favorite, Sande up, drew inside position. Up shot the barrier with a deafening roar from the stands as the horses simultaneously broke to a splendid start. Mad Play gained an immediate lead by saving ground in rounding the first turn. Hard pressed for the whole 1⅛ miles...
...vigor with which these nouveau aristocrats are supporting their cause, however, makes up for any lack of ancient prestige: M. Leon Daudet called upon his twenty thousand associates to begin a royalist revolution "tonight, from this moment, from the gate of Paris." Possibly the Duc d'Orleans, nominal King of France, who is now residing in England is not aware of this enthusiasm, for he has not yet crossed the Channel to claim his throne...