Word: straightaways
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Armory in question is especially well adapted for track events, there being a straightaway 75 yards course, and the regular track itself, 9 laps to the mile. The price of admission for spectators will be 50 cents, and for contestants special tickets will be provided free of cost. There will probably be a special dressing room for Harvard...
...will be given by the Boston Athletic Association on Saturday, October 4, at 2.30 p. m., will be a Twenty-five Mile Handicap Race, with a limit of ten minutes and is open to all amateurs. The course will be over macadamized roads for twelve and one half miles straightaway, and return by same route, which makes it impossible for strangers to lose their course. The prizes will be ten in number, besides a gold record medal which will be given to the first competitor who breaks the Twenty-five Mile Road Record...
...three mile straightaway eightoared race between Bowdoin and Cornell will be rowed at Ithaca on June...
...athletic field is to be fitted up at Morris Park on which Mr. John A. Morris will spend more than $100,000. A half-mile cinder track, and a 220 yard straightaway will be constructed on the most approved plans. The infield will be as level as a floor and will be so drained as to be dry at all times. A permanent grand stand to seat 4,500 will be built, and a moveable stand to hold 10,000 or 12,000 more will be constructed in case the colleges should desire to hold football games at the park...
...skating rink next to the open hall of this building will be thrown open so as to make one large room of the whole thing and thus furnish plenty of space for the events to be contested. The place will be large enough for a 75 yard straightaway track, and a mile track in seven laps, just half as many as were required in last Saturday's games. The Amateur Athletic Union held its regular outdoor meeting last fall, and therefore the events which are to be contested in this meeting will very somewhat from the events of last fall...