Word: gatemen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scout the eastern tracks and report in detail what was wrong with them. The findings: poor parking facilities, not enough elbow room in grandstands. So Doc ordered up the largest parking lot in the U.S. (215 acres of it) and an ultra-roomy grandstand. His attendants, ushers and gatemen were drilled in courtesy. Strub even handed out kindly advice to the uninitiated bettor, posted such warnings as: "Bet only what you can afford to lose, not what you hope...
Come Regatta Day--as last week, swarms of Crimson well-wishers have to be fought off by gatemen. Only parents of the crew and various official personages are admitted. Occasionally, however, the solitude of the Boathouse was broken early last Wednesday afternoon by the arrival of dinghies from the yachts off shore, looking for more beer...