Word: straightaway
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Intensive training for the winter track squad got under way yesterday afternoon. Coach Bingham gave the men stiff trial runs for the first time this season, the distance men working out around the circular track while the sprinters practiced starts on the new straightaway...
...board tracks are now in the process of construction next to the Locker Building on Soldiers Field. The track for the sprinters will provide for a longer straightaway for dashes. As soon as the tracks are finished, members of the squad will be allowed to run on them at optional times until the Christmas recess...
...track events are scheduled for next Wednesday, November 3, while the field events will take place on the following afternoon. As there is not sufficient straightaway space under the present arrangements to hold a 220-yard dash, the sprints will be limited to 100 and 160 yards. There will be no high hurdles and for the same reason, as the elimination of the furlong, the low hurdles will be limited to 120 yards...
...hundred and sixty yard dash was substituted for the two-twenty because of lack of straightaway. This event was won by H. W. Davis of Standish, with A. S. Simmons, a Smith man, and Norrie, a Gore man, capturing second and third. Davis' time was 17 1-5 seconds. The quarter-mile gave Standish a first place when P. Gossler crossed the tape in 56 3-5 seconds. S. P. Hutchinson and Barral, both of Smith, took the other two places. D. H. Wallace, running for Gore, won the gold medal in the half-mile, when he crossed the tape...