Word: tanbark
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...were advised by agents of the Rochester Humane Society that a cockfight would be held in the cellar of the Canawaugus Inn. When they arrived at the Inn, police found a score of cars, their lights extinguished, parked outside. In the cellar a fairsized crowd was huddled around a tanbark pit, where, in the hard brilliance of electric light, two gamecocks were silently and gracefully tearing each other to pieces. Police arrested 23 spectators and one Gus Kauffman, proprietor of the Inn, summoned a justice of the peace who held court in the Inn, fined each of the spectators...
...conducted in "mains" of seven or more individual fights. Bettors wager on either the fights or the main. There are 24 different sets of rules, all derived from the Old Royal Pit Rules of England. Usually the pit is a platform about 20 feet in diameter, covered with tanbark, matting or carpet. The birds are put together, beak to beak, in a chalk ring a yard wide at the centre. A rail around the edge of the pit keeps them from falling out but a "squawker'' or a "runner'' can jump the rail if he feels...
...straight mile of tanbark along the southern edge of Hyde Park, is as sacred to British horsemen as Shakespeare's tomb is to poets, Westminster to statesmen. It is the King's Road (the name is a British attempt to pronounce Route du Rois), the path that ancient sovereigns took when they rode from Westminster to hunt in the royal forests. Here Queen Victoria used to drive in her barouche, smiling grimly under her swivel-topped black parasol. Here King George takes his genteel canters. Here the morning sun shines on the finest horses, the best cut breeches...
...Peroy 24 Freshmen are being cheated in fencing, Rockey and boxing tied for eleventh place with 22 men each. Twenty men are Hated for voluntary calilsthenies, and nine are vigorously scouring Cambridge and vicinity on daily hikes, Managerships attracted seven men, and six represent the Freshman class on the tanbark. Eleven men whave elected miscellaneous forms of exercise...
...last-chukker onslaught, resulting in four quick goals, brought victory to the Harvard polo team in a spirited game with the Princeton trio Saturday night on the Commonwealth Armory tanbark. It was no last minute frenzied rally, but a cool, calculated offensive, led by W. S. Luton '33, who scored the four winning tallies which brought the 10 to 7 1-2 victory to the Crimson...