Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Illinois State Fair at Springfield, Greyhound broke the world's record for 3-year-old geldings by trotting a mile in 2 min. flat (TIME, Aug. 23). Carnivals grossed $50,000 for an all-time record. Attendance was up to 810,000 which was 175,000 more than last year...
...never any doubt as to his attitude towards loafing. A continuance of this policy this fall will make Varsity football practice no bed of roses, but it is the only possible way to whip the available material into shape for the string of hard games that follows he Springfield opener...
Separate tickets for football games may be bought as follows: Springfield $.55, $1.10 Holy Cross $1.10, $2.20 Army...
...foot on the accelerator, left foot on the floorboards, looked at the green traffic light in the pillar before them. The scene was not a highway but the psychological laboratory of Massachusetts State College at Amherst, or the 1935 Boston automobile show, or the 1934 Eastern States Exposition at Springfield, Mass. When the person being tested put his foot on the accelerator, the cam of a motor selector switch was set revolving, turning the green light to amber in two seconds. Thereafter, at an unpredictable interval, the amber light turned red. As soon as he saw the red light...
...group of Eastern sportsmen organized the Grand Circuit, which became to trotting what the major leagues are to baseball. The Grand Circuit, a series of meetings on mile tracks, last year included eight cities, this year nine (Toledo, Cleveland, Toronto, Salem, N. H., Goshen, Springfield, Ill., Syracuse, Indianapolis, Lexington, Ky.). There are 200 minor circuits in the U. S., thousands of trotting races on half-mile courses at county fairs. There are about 700 owners and breeders of trotters and four times as many trainers, second trainers, grooms and stable boys. Compared to thoroughbred racing, the economics of harness racing...