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...gates admitting to Soldiers Field will be Gates 12 and 13 on the Metropolitan Parkway at the south west corner of the field. These may be reached from Boston by Commonwealth Avenue to Brighton Avenue to Union Square, Allston, to North Beacon Street and down Market Street to the Speedway...
Much of the original 70 acres was taken in 1897 by the Metropolitan Park Commission for the Speedway section of the Charles River Reservation. About 25 acres, however, were left to the University, over two-fifths of the 61 acres which now form Soldiers Field...
...gates on North Harvard Street are numbered for the Anderson Bridge 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. All season ticket and H. A. A. holders should enter a Gate No. 1. Special auto passes will enter through Gate No. 13 which is the first gate on the Speedway next to Gate No. 1. Admission tickets will be sold only at Gate No. 3. Reserved seat tickets will be sold only a Gate No. 5. All holders of reserved sent tickets purchased in advance should enter at Gate No. 4 but no tickets will be on sale at Gate No. 4. Persons...
Died. Howard ("Howdy") Wilcox, 35, veteran automobile racer. His car skidded and rolled over, fatally injuring him, in the inaugural 200-mile race on the new Altoona (Pa.) Speedway...
Before a crowd of 150,000-the greatest throng that ever witnessed a sporting event in America-Tommy Milton, of St. Paul, won for the second successive year the 500-mile race over the Indianapolis motor speedway. Milton's H. C. S. special covered the distance in 5 hrs., 28 min., 6 sec., for an average of 91.4 miles an hour. He collected $35,000 for the victory. The mechanical surprise of the afternoon was a specially built flivver which finished fifth...