Word: rinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston last autumn, Norman Skelly, 28-year-old Pawtucket, R. I. rollerskating rink proprietor and his friend John Shefuga set out to skate to Los Angeles. They arrived, after covering 4,075 miles, two months and two days later, turned around to hitchhike home. Last week in Manhattan, Skater Skelly proudly exhibited memoranda of the trip. Excerpts...
...first game, the Detroit Red Wings, playing on their home rink, skated rings around the Montreal Canadiens, 4-to-0. In the second, they did exactly the same thing though this time the Canadiens managed to score the first goal before losing, 5-to-1. For the third game, the teams moved to Montreal, where "Les Millionaires," the Canadiens' famed cheering club, occupies the same block of seats at all their games. A temperamental team, which in streaks this season has been the best in the game, the Canadiens suddenly recovered their touch. Johnny Gagnon put the first goal...
...action on the proposed hockey rink is dependent on only one thing, the raising of sufficient money. It is believed, however, by Bingham, that the cost of $500,000 estimated in the Council Report is excessive. Private donations have built the cages and Dillon Field House, and it is though possible that some graduate may contribute funds for the proposed project...
Under Bingham's plan, any rink that would be built would seat considerably less than the 5,000 advocated by the report and would be mainly for practice and intramural teams. Intercollegiate games would be continued to be played in the Arena or Garden which alone can seat the crowds that attend the big games...
Recommendation number two is for a Hockey rink to be built on Soldiers Field. Figuring that gate receipts would pay for upkeep once the original costs were footed, the committee calls the advantages of such a rink obvious. It would allow longer and easier practices for the college teams. It would allow a full program of intra-mural hockey; it would provide for indoor track meets and would be used to house the increasing crowds that are coming to Cambridge to watch basketball...