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That left only one thing for Reynoldstown to do: gallop comfortably past the screaming grandstand, 12 lengths in front of Ego. He did so and became the first horse to win the Grand National at Aintree two years in a row since The Colonel...
...also by Cumnock in 1882, and he installed the first tackling dummy ever faced by any squad. For the first time in football history the team at Springfield left the field between the halves for a medical going-over and rest in a temporary house erected just outside the grandstand. Yale, on seeing Harvard leave the field, betook themselves in the old and very cold barge which had brought them to the field...
...grunt of the tackle....the call of a play, and, all over again. Yes, gentlemen, there's also the taste of hot dogs, racoons and bad ale. There are passes too high; there are seats too low. There are kicks on the field; there's kicking in the grandstand. There is good interference; and there's the fellow who blocks our view. There are yells; and there's Harvard indifference. There's music; and there's the band. There are scores; and there are Old Golds (adv.) And then again, gentlemen, there's the CRIMSON; and there's Springfield...
...telling you and I'm telling him just what I'm going to do. I'm going to wrap it all up in one package and let him have it in the first round. . . ."-Max Baer, in Speculator, N. Y. where a grandstand at his training camp last week collapsed, injuring 60 people...
...where high-goal players customarily perform, or afford to buy seats at Meadow Brook. He improved Bostwick Field at Old Westbury until it became, next to Meadow Brook, the best playing surface on Long Island. He put up gigantic signs "Polo-50?" on four Long Island boulevards, built a grandstand (without boxes) to seat 3,000, had the biggest Scoreboard in the world erected at the end of the field, advertised in the newspapers. The experiment turned out well, made enough money for Promoter Bostwick to build a club room and bar for the newspaper men who report his games...