Word: straightaway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Object of Roosevelt Raceway, like the Monza course, is to combine the advantages of road-racing (tests for automobile motors, excitement for spectators) with the advantages of track-racing (high speed, visibility for crowds). Roosevelt Raceway's four-mile track has a three-quarter mile straightaway thanked by grandstands. The other three and a quarter miles, lying just beyond the straightaway, are coiled into three major loops, shaped like the profile of a Parker House roll. The track winds through 16 turns all within clear view of the grandstand crowd. Most elaborate plant of its kind in the world...
They were away down the last 15-minute straightaway. The excited crowd could hardly restrain its cheers. Typster Saksvig had fallen back, but between Blackamoor Peters and Italian Tangora, both sweating in rivulets, the score board showed a dead heat. Tangora was a few words ahead but he had more penalties scored against...
...Queen Mary (see p. 17) at 3:15, the field got away smoothly. On a track baked rocky hard, following the Aga Khan's instructions, Jockey Smirke rode a waiting race. First Carioca, then Mrs. James Shand's Thankerton took the lead. Coming into the straightaway, big. grey Mahmoud, whom over-skeptical bookmakers, considering him a mere sprinter, had rated at 100-to-8, began to run. He crossed the finish three lengths ahead of Taj Akbar, most highly favored of the Aga Khan's three entries, with a new record, 1/5 sec. better than...
...shuttle re45lay affair is run over a straightaway with two men at each end. The first man runs over the 110-yard distance, hands the baton to the man at the other end, who returns back over the same length returning the baton...
...crowd. Bonthron, now married, has retired until the third Princeton Invitation Meet in June.* Joe Mangan, one-time Cornell miler who defeated Cunningham last month, was recovering from influenza. These two were scarcely missed as a cheering crowd watched Venzke dodge Cunningham's heels. On the last straightaway, with 40 yd. to go, Venzke unleashed a spurt, split the tape 6 ft. in front. To Cunningham went the credit of setting so fast a pace that the winner set a new world record: 3 min. 49.9 sec. In the final track event a hawk-nosed, granite-jawed Syracuse junior...