Word: indoor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another building will soon grace the Harvard skyline. The Department of Athletics announced yesterday the construction of an "all-weather indoor tennis facility" at Soldiers Field...
...build indoor tennis courts? The wind blows mightily on the flat, exposed Soldiers Field area and makes an efficient practice difficult. Coach Jack Barnaby complains that "it's impossible to build up tennis players the way we do in squash. At present you can predict the outcome of the tennis league in the Fall: it's difficult for the coach to change anything...
...indoor courts will also be useful as places to continue matches broken up by rain. The Ivy tennis season is a short and tight one, and a match that is rained out often cannot be rescheduled...
...courts will have floors of "standard green," the same stuff that covers the present outdoor varsity courts. The indoor and outdoor floors will be the same in order that matches begun outside may be completed inside without disputes about a change of terrain. In fact, the new building is expected to stand in the space now occupied by the varsity's first four courts...
...runners; no U.S. miler has held the world record, even momentarily, in the past 25 years. But little (5 ft. 5 in., 128 lbs.) Jim Beatty has long since outrun his national pedigree. He holds the world record for the outdoor two-mile (8 min. 29.8 sec.) and the indoor mile (3 min. 58.9 sec.), as well as the American record for 1,500 meters, 3,000 meters and 5,000 meters. By this week, as he wound up a triumphal tour of France, England and Scandinavia, European track fans were willing to concede that Beatty can go the distance...