Word: starters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Immediately following the hurdle eliminations, the starter called the sprinters to the starting line for the 100 yard dash trials. The outstanding performance in the century competition was the performance of Captain Norton of Yale, who breezed home in the first heat to win over McCall of Dartmouth and Smith of the title holders. The Eli leader was clocked in 9 8-10 seconds, the fastest mark turned in during the afternoon. The second race was the closest in this event and was captured by Charles of Colgate after a stiff brush in the last ten yards with Barber. California...
...dinner last night was the name of Alvan T. Fuller, governor of Massachusetts. With him in the same capacity was Malcolm E. Nichols '99, Mayor of Boston. William F. Garcelon '94, a hurdler of first rank in the Intercollegiates of 1898 and 1894, in his office as official starter, told of the time when hurdles were hurdles, and when a hurdler had to be a high-jumper...
...head starter at Churchill Down was talking to a glistening, shifting wall of thoroughbreds, which nudged and minced and hesitated at one end of a green lane of Kentucky turf under a gold-and-blue sky. With one word more he would send them away, down the green lane, around a white-fenced circle for a mile and a quarter. The 75,000 turbulent shadows packed along the stretch would roar for two minutes, and one more Kentucky Derby would be over. Two minutes and a few seconds - two minutes for which the jockeys had trained for months, for which...
...Owners. While the jockeys, obedient to the voice that barked at them from the starter's platform, worked into line at the head of the stretch, their sleeves flashing, their caps bobbing, ten millionaires watched their maneuvers with an intimate and peculiar interest. They were the owners- all rich then, but nine of them due to be poorer in a few minutes. There were W. R. Coe, Standard oil mines; Colonel Bradley, who once owned the Del Prado hotel in Chicago and whose racing stable, the Idle Hour Farm, has derived many benefits from a clothing store he formerly...
...perfect start. Johnson on Bubbling Over was out ahead from the eleventh post position; he wouldn't be able to stay there long. Canter and Display, the horses that had been giving the starter such trouble, were running on each side of Pompey. Recollection swerved almost to the outside rail but he was behind the field and there was no interference. They broke at the turn; the thud of their racing-plates sounded incredibly loud, a prolonged piratical drum-roll, in the silence that replaced the crowd's first roar...