Word: tanbark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Satirev crushed the varsity pole team 14-13 in a game Saturday night on the Commonwealth Armory tanbark as the indoor pole championship season got under way. Before the constant fire of the 101st Field Artillery the Blue Jays gave way 12-6, while the Yardlings lost 8-5 to the Newport trio...
Staving off a last half rally, the Varsity indoor polo trio made its season debut Saturday night on the Common-wealth Armory tanbark by edging the Danvers malletmen...
Last week, University of Wisconsin's tanbark-floored livestock pavilion at Madison was the scene of a mass meeting which may or may not become retrospectively as important to U. S. history as the convention in Ripon. Into the pavilion swarmed some 5,000 invited guests, for whose benefit its interior had been deodorized, its gallery strung with U. S. and Wisconsin flags and with banners bearing the strange device of a cross within a circle, a new American shibboleth. Ushers were Wisconsin football players wearing red sweaters with huge white Ws. Originator, organizer and chief speaker...
...fastest game of the season, Captain Chester Sargent's malletmen thundered up from behind in the last chukker to overtake an unexpectedly speedy Tiger aggregation on the Commonwealth Armory tanbark Saturday night. The final score...
...three days last week the cagiest David Harums of the U. S. milled around a rectangular tanbark enclosure on Manhattan's Squadron A Armory, squinting knowingly as 226 harness horses were trotted or paced, one by one, up & down the narrow track. Walking sticks flashed in the air as bids were raised again & again and the raucous-voiced auctioneer pounded his gavel, announced the buyers. Thus was sold $206,000 worth of U. S. horseflesh at the 43rd annual Old Glory Sale, capping the most successful year in the history of U. S. harness racing...