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...probability nothing will materialize from it. If, however, we found that we could put the canvas to a year-round use, we might consider it. It might be used in the spring to protect the baseball diamond from rain or possibly as a covering to the baseball grandstand. At present the whole project is nothing but guesswork...
...Paris a chemist went insane, smashed his laboratory, hurled into the street test tubes filled with billions of deadly microbes.* At Bayonne, France, during a bull fight a bovine tossed his head, knocked a sword out of a matador's hand and into the grandstand, where it pierced the heart of a wealthy Cu ban spectator, who died. Near Philadelphia the Baldwin Locomotive Works established a world's record by turning out locomotives† at the rate of one per hour for 31 consecutive hours...
...this occasion the bull was in a bad temper before he was let into the arena. The moment he was released he became maddened and jumped into the enclosure where the amateur fighters were waiting. Quick as a flash they jumped into the grandstand. The crowd took fright and fled panic-stricken to the top tier of seats. The grandstand gave way. Four people were killed. Twenty-five were injured...
Bovine anger and a collapsed grandstand...
...contests will be conducted in accordance with the rules of the Rodeo Association-and High-Chin Bob and his riding confreres from all quarters of the West are going to come a-hootin'. Arrangements have been made to quarter some 400 head of stock under the Yankee grandstand-broncos, steers for the bulldoggmg contests, calves for the roping, etc. A huge cocoa-mat will cover the dia-mand and the greater part of the outfield, and the bulldogging and roping will take place on the mat. There will also be relay races on the present track, which will...