Word: parkes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Leonard Roach, a Los Angeles County supervisor, has been touting his county's vast (105,000-seat) Coliseum as a big-league park. But he has neglected to point out that the right-field seats would be only 290 feet away from the plate, and balls hit to left field would have to be mailed in. Also, parking space is precious, some lots charging up to $5 a car. And concessions in the Coliseum, without which no club could exist, are already leased...
Seals' fancy, 32,000-seat park could easily be double-decked if the crowds should warrant it. Polling scores of fans, Sports Editor Curley Grieve of Hearst's Examiner found them all for big-league ball. Preferably, they would like to see the Seals competing with the Yankees or Dodgers ; a West Coast third major league was strictly second choice...
...best horses in the East were running at fashionable, old-fashioned Saratoga and at streamlined Garden State, but turfmen's thoughts strayed elsewhere. At Rockingham Park at Salem, N.H., under two circus tents, 43 emaciated thoroughbreds stood listlessly cooling their fevered noses in buckets of water. Their hind legs twitched; some fell. By last weekend, seven of them had died, or been destroyed, because of a swamp fever epizootic (animal equivalent of epidemic). The New Hampshire veterinary ordered every one of the 930 horses at Rockingham quarantined there indefinitely...
...healthy but quarantined horses. When the summer meeting at Rockingham ended last week, some 300 owners were left stranded - including scores of one-or two-horse owner-trainers who need purses to buy meat and potatoes. In an effort to give these horse-racing DPs a break, Rockingham Park got permission to open its fall meeting on Sept. 13, three weeks ahead of schedule...
...being an Oxford don in the Honour School of English Language & Literature, a Fellow and tutor of Magdalen College and the most popular lecturer in the University. To watch him downing his pint at the Eastgate (his favorite pub), or striding, pipe in mouth, across the deer park, a stranger would not be likely to guess that C. S. Lewis is also a best-selling author and one of the most influential spokesmen for Christianity in the English-speaking world...