Word: grandstand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like a Fuller Brush salesman, Mr. Madigan has been canvassing the little towns behind the Berkeley hills, touting his track to Lions clubs and other horse-hungry groups. Among the novelties he touted: a towering, three-tiered grandstand (only one in the U. S.), with a clear view of the finish line from every one of its 13,000 seats; a saddling paddock in front instead of behind the grandstand; a circular bar (with free hors d'oeuvres at 4 o'clock sharp) overlooking San Francisco Bay; "elephant trains," salvaged from the Exposition's dismantled Treasure Island...
Time was called twice while Chief Umpire Bill Summers and Indian Manager Oscar Vitt begged the fans to stop. They were in no mood to stop. Wham! A bushel basket full of tomatoes dropped from the upper grandstand into the Tiger bull pen. Apparently aimed at Schoolboy Rowe, it scored a direct hit on Birdie Tebbetts, alternate catcher, who was chatting with Rowe. Tebbetts was knocked unconscious...
...unhappiest of those who were waiting for bombs in London last week was little Japanese Ambassador Mamoru Shigemitsu. One reason he was unhappy was because he knew all about bombs. On the morning of April 29, 1932, an insurgent Korean rushed a grandstand in Shanghai's Hongkew Park, where Japanese were celebrating the Emperor's birthday, and threw a "thermos bottle" into the crowd. The thermos exploded, and Mamoru Shigemitsu (then Minister to China) got 32 splinters in his leg. A week later, in a hospital bed, he signed the agreement ending that year's Shanghai hostilities...
...position and cross the line. The promoters will also do away with the equally hallowed custom of heat racing (two out of three heats to decide the winner instead of one race). They will lay out a half-mile track, popular with railbirds because the horses pass the grandstand twice, and install an electric tote board and apparatus for camera finishes. Besides these innovations, Roosevelt's races will be run at night, under spotlights...
Where was the Congressional committee? Looking worried. Congressman An drew Jackson May of Kentucky and Senator Robert Rice Reynolds of North Carolina emerged from under the grandstand shelter. But still missing was Senator Morris Sheppard, chairman of the joint committee, who was flying from Washington...