Word: stadiumitis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...while it looked as if the Varsity track team would join the southern migration next week, but the proposed tour fizzled and so most of Coach Mikkola's 100 candidates will spend their Easter vacation in twice-daily workouts on the Stadium cinders...
...Briggs Cage a week or so ago, squad members have been pretty well split up. Milers and two-milers have been going along the river bank, "nice, easy speed up to Police Station and back" (a distance of 31/ miles), the pole-vaulters have used the runway under the Stadium grandstand, and most of the field men have warmed up out behind the baseball grandstand...
...Promoter Sol Strauss won a victory of sorts. Jersey Joe Walcott reluctantly signed on Sol's terms (20% of the net gate, radio and television returns, 22½% of the movie rights) instead of his own (30%) for a return bout with Joe Louis at Yankee Stadium on June...
Last week they found one-the Minneapolis Lakers, one of the best white pro teams in the U.S. A crowd of 17,823 jammed into Chicago Stadium to see the fun. At halftime, the Trotters were trailing 32-23, and blamed it on being "tensed up"; they had played five games in five nights and were a little tired. Goose Tatum wasn't having much luck against towering (6 ft. 9) George Mikan, the glamor boy of college basketball two years ago. But in the third quarter, Tatum and his mates began to loosen...
...busily buying up other advertisers' contracts and erasing all the billboard ads at New York's Polo Grounds. The company would sponsor all telecasts of the Giants' home games next summer (over WNBT), and wanted no free riders (last year the Gem Blades billboard in Yankee Stadium stole Gillette's show). This summer, Chesterfield will make sure that the Polo Grounds is adorned with a big Chesterfield ad, deep in center field...