Word: stadium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...home in The Bronx, where his mother often frys eels for him and other Yankees, First Baseman Gehrig told about the trip: "The enthusiasm of the Japanese just about borders on the fanatical. . . . Never had I seen anything like it even in our biggest championship years at the Stadium. The six games in Tokyo were like a world series . . . each one drew between 55,000 and 60.000. . . . The gates had to be locked at 10:30. Never had I seen such happy jovial crowds...
...City alone contested the sale. From Chicago had come a citizens delegation headed by Democrat Edward Nash Hurley, Wartime chairman of the Shipping Board, and Col. Robert Isham ("Secret Six") Randolph of the Chicago Association of Commerce. They offered the G. O. P. the city's new indoor Stadium for its meetings, promised reduced railroad fares and moderate hotel rates. Of most importance, they waved a certified check for $150,000 as Chicago's cash bid for the convention...
...indoor stadium, not to be confused with Soldier Field, occupies a full city block on West Madison Street, two miles from the "Loop." Its seating capacity is 25,000. Its organ, strong as 25 brass bands, smashes electric light bulbs by its vibration when played fortissimo. Delegates will not have to sweat disgustingly in their shirtsleeves, because the huge building is equipped with an airicing machine to maintain...
...president of Dartmouth, Holy Cross, and Yale have received checks for distribution to the unemployed as they see fit, the sums representing in each case half of the collection taken up in the Stadium when their respective teams played Harvard. The checks were as follows: to President E. M. Hopkins of Dartmouth, $2,959; to the Reverend Father J. M. Fox, president of Holy Cross, $3,473: and to President J. R. Angell of Yale, $6.612. The total amount collected by the Student Council at the games...
...that it is recognized as an extreme result of over-emphasis. In an atmosphere where football is considered the central interest of college life, it probably passes as a regrettable but minor blunder. To those who think of a university as something more than a field-house and a stadium, it will appear as the outcome of a wide-spread evil in contemporary college life...