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...Metropolitan Park Commission has granted permission for automobiles to use the Charles River Speedway, bordering on Soldiers Field, tomorrow and on the days of the Dartmouth and Yale games. An opening has been made in the iron fence allowing automobiles to enter Soldiers Field, from the Speedway. Automobiles may be parked either on Soldiers Field, entering by the new gate, or on the Speedway between the Newell boathouse and North Harvard street, and passengers from machines parked on the Speedway may enter Soldiers Field through the small gate opposite the boathouse...
...squad of 55 candidates reported yesterday to Coach Shrubb of the cross-country team, and were put through a light practice. The men ran a mile on the Stadium track, after which they made the round of Soldiers Field on the speedway, a total distance of three miles. There will be practice every afternoon consisting either of running or long walks, and the regular Chestnut Hill course will be used in order to familiarize the men with the course over which they will run in competition. Of the men who competed in the intercollegiate run last year the following...
...Metropolitan Park Commissioners have decided to open the speedway around Soldiers Field to motors on the days of big games. Heretofore motors have been obliged to drive through North Harvard street and into Stadium street in order to park machines in the vicinity of the Stadium. The heavy motor traffic has been dangerous in the crowd of pedestrians, and there has always been much delay for occupants of motors in getting to and from the games...
Under the new arrangement there will be constructed from the Metropolitan Park speedway two motor entrances to Soldiers Field, one near the University boathouse and the other near the University boathouse and the other near the baseball grounds. With this arrangement motor parties can approach the field by way of the parkway on the Boston side, easily reached through Commonwealth and Brighton avenues, and will not inconvenience the pedestrians on Boylston and North Harvard streets. It will also be much easier in getting away by means of the parkway. In conjunction with the new subway and the proposed Stadium bridge...
...track team are now working daily in the open, but owing to the soft condition of the ground, are as yet unable to use the track in the Stadium. Under Mr. Lathrop's direction, however, the long distance runners are being sent out in squads along the speedway, and the sprinters individually along the side-walk of Boylston street; while the weight mn are practicing in Soldiers Field under Mr. Quinn's supervision...