Word: rinks
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...purebred Scottish form, the game is played on a 46-yd. strip of ice, usually on an indoor rink where the ice is more even and not subject to sudden thaws. At each end of the rink there are fixed bull's-eye targets (see diagram). Each player on a four-man team, captained by an authoritarian "skip," gets two shots at the target on each round. With a bowler's arm-swinging motion, the curler hoists a 40-lb. circular (maximum circumference: 36 in.) stone,* and sends it slithering down the ice toward the "tee line" bull...
Canny Strategy. At the Crossmyloof rink at Glasgow last week, none of the five Scottish teams scored such a shutout, but they did manage to whip the Americans in the first test match, 109-54. In the second match, the U.S. did better, only lost 94-83. The Scotsmen played a camay, conservative game, in sharp contrast to the generally slam-bang U.S. style. The Scots used blockade tactics in front of the scoring circle until the skip, comparable to cleanup batter in baseball, could send his final stone down to nudge his teammates' into the bull...
Opinion was divided among members of the School Committee as to the advisability of spending a reported $4,00,000 for the rink. Dr. Patrick J. Foley originally proposed the purchase of the Arena so as to bring high school hockey on an equal plane with fall and spring sports...
...machine was a "beautiful thing to watch." This thing of beauty was exhibited over the Christmas holidays in the innocuous form of the fourth annual Lawrenceville School Invitation Tournament. This tourney, sponsored by near-by Lawrenceville, brings about 16 private school New England hockey teams to Princeton's Baker Rink for a round-robin affair. Princeton gets into the act not only by providing the rink, but by putting up the schoolboy skaters at the Prospect Street eating clubs. Every effort is made by the Princeton sports hierarchy to insure that when the athletes to the North. Old Nassau will...
Chase estimated that an outdoor rink would cost only $85,000 and an indoor one $275,000. To cut down overhead, he said the University could share land and the use of a power plant offered by the Boston Skating Club...