Word: rinks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boston Arena, which was officially opened last Saturday night, will be this winter the center of athletic interest in Boston, and of intercollegiate hockey in New England. The following hockey games have been definitely scheduled to take place on the rink...
...have examined the new Arena recently declared that it is the most skillfully designed building of its kind ever constructed. Besides offering the best ice surface in New England, the Arena can be adapted to many other uses, as it is possible to substitute a board floor for the rink in four hours, and to freeze a new ice surface in a very short time. This fact is made possible by the use of two large ice machines, one weighing 410 tons and the other 90 tons...
...provide this ice surface, which is 200 feet long by 90 feet wide, over eleven miles of pipe are used. Five thousand people can be accommodated at athletic games or other events which require the use of the rink or the track, and eighty-five hundred can attend political meetings for boxing matches. The running track is of standard with and measures ten laps to the mile. It is expected that these facilities for boxing bouts and track meets, especially the annual B. A. A. games, will be welcomed, as the seating arrangements at Paul Revere Hall have never proved...
Because of many difficulties in preparing the ice making machinery, the management of the Arena had to make a great of fort to open the new rink on schedule time. But after a week of delays and disappointments they were finally sole to get a coating of ice over the concrete floor eight hours after the first drops of water were sprinkled on the surface at noon on New Year's Day,--establishing a new record for laying the first cost of ice; the best obvious time of four days was made at the Duquesne Gardens in Pittsburg...
...various facilities for exercise indicates that some time in the future there will be a need for a large indoor plant that ought to include, among other things, basketball courts, two swimming pools, one for general swimming and for competition, and the other for instruction purposes, a hockey rink, a baseball cage large enough for a regulation diamond with an opportunity for infield practice during the winter season, indoor track facilities, a special apparatus room, a trophy room, general offices, lockers and showers...