Word: racing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is a further endeavor of the Liberal Club to examine the culture of the negro race, a project begun on March 15 with the debate "Resolved, That further intermixing of races in the United States is desirable...
...races were run over a one and five-sixteenths mile course. The strokes had been ordered to keep the pace down, and as a consequence no exceptional times were turned in. Captain John Watts '28 did not figure in Saturday's race having been ill for several days. It is believed, however, that he will be back in action today. C. H. Pforzheimer '28, second University coxswain last year, was also idle due to illness...
...another field of activity, Mr. C. C. Pyle removed his attention from his tennis proteges long enough to arrange a transcontinental foot-race from Los Angeles to New York. With more than 200 starters and handsome purses offered by the cities on the route, prospects were good for a cleanup, but Mr. Pyle counted too much on human capabilities. So far less than half the runners are left with the borders of Arizona yet to be crossed, and the chances of any of them reaching the goal seem much reduced. The magic of the dollar sign does not always suffice...
...coats of watchers at a six-day race show spots from the drop that runs down a bottle of pop when you drink out of it. Their heads keep turning from side to side as if they were rapidly reading the page of a book a block wide. All week in Madison Square Garden drops fell onto coats and faces turned from side to side, from side to side, all morning, all afternoon, all night, for six days. And round the pale pine dish the riders pedaled, jammed, sprinted, drank beef juice out of paper cups, pasted their burned legs...
...Brocardo, two small, nervy French boys. On the fifth night Brocardo fell four times, skidded down the wall of the saucer, strapped to his pedals. The third time he was knocked unconscious. In fifteen minutes he got up and rode again. McNamara, "Iron Man," was booed all through the race. Brocco, 43-year old champion trying to come back, pedaled till his rheumatic legs stiffened like hooks, forcing him out. A visiting band announced that as a tribute to Veteran Frederick Spencer they would play "When You and I Were Young Maggie." Furious, Spencer gained a lap. In the gallery...