Word: grandstands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...means that New Yorkers can watch a race on any day between Feb. 25, when the harness races started, to Dec. 7, when the thoroughbred season ends. Attendance at Yonkers Race way has averaged nearly 22,000 a night since Feb. 25, even though spectators sometimes had to build grandstand bonfires to keep warm. On a recent Saturday, 51,959 people bet $4,362,768 on the thoroughbreds at Aqueduct, contributed $500,000 toward balancing Governor Nelson Rockefeller's beleaguered budget...
Once Curly Lambeau cajoled a fan into selling his cream-colored Marmon roadster (for $1,500) to bail the team out of hock; in repayment, Lambeau allowed his benefactor to play one minute of one Packer game. Another year, a spectator tumbled from the Packer grandstand, sued, won a $5,000 verdict, and forced the team into receivership; Green Bay businessmen chipped in $15,000 to save the franchise. Again, in 1949, after two miserable seasons (Lambeau's last as coach), the Packers floundered financially...
...fire, to set salaries, even to design Packer uniforms. Once the whip was in his hand, he set it singing. "This is a violent sport," he told the Packers. "To play in this league, you've got to be tough -physically tough and mentally tough." He chased grandstand kibitzers off the training field, declared the rowdier Green Bay taverns off-limits, slapped $25 fines on players who showed up as little as one minute late for practice, $50 fines on those who broke his 11 p.m. training-camp curfew. He ordered injured Packers to run in practice...
...soaked Du Quoin, Ill., State Fair grounds, hawkers hawked everything from fake jewelry to trusses and early American furniture. Girlie shows fringed the noisy midway. Prize hogs grunted, fat rabbits panted, chicken legs sputtered in deep fat. But most of the 37,718 fans jammed inside the gaily canopied grandstand and the adjacent bleachers had little use for such frippery. Their attention was focused on a burnished clay race track before them, where 15 sleek standardbreds were warming up for the start of trotting's annual classic-the $116,612 Hambletonian...
...strip that permits only one car to pass without risk of a crackup. The A. C. Gilbert Co. sells a figure eight of track with an overpass and two Corvettes for $29.98. Aurora's latest accessories include a lap counter, judge's stand and turnoff, starting gate, grandstand-and a railroad crossing where a train can mash risk-takers...