Word: track
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...track is now finished, and affords good facilities to all for training. Nothing now is wanting to make Harvard's field athletics successful but a trainer. The success of our team at the intercollegiate games last year has been used as an argument against the need of a trainer; but when we come to examine the state of the case we find that nearly all of the events were won by old athletes, who had had the advantage of several years' experience under a professional trainer. One half the team have graduated, and unless something is done to bring...
...They are a little better now, after a summer of rest, but if they are used until late this autumn they will undoubtedly be worse next spring than ever before. Last year they were bad enough, and then we had more of them, and those now under the new track were the best of all. This is a poor lookout for those who expect to play tennis on college ground, and they are already beginning to grumble because the Tennis Association does not seem anxious to take measures to improve the courts. And there will be a great deal more...
...played on-we mean bare clay courts. At Princeton no turf courts are used at all. The courts are almost as bare as a billiard table, require but little work, and can be played on half an hour after a rain. The new land east of the new track could be made into bare courts at very little expense, by simply replacing the present thin layer of loam with one of clay, and grading so that the rain would not form puddles. Here is a chance for the officers of the Tennis Association to show that they are interested...
...England, lately, Wood won a 20 mile professional bicycle race in 59 m., 41.2-3 sec., beating Howell, Lees, Newton and Weston, the last two of whom would also have done 20 miles in the hour together with the other three, but for the crowd running on the track. The last mile of this race was done in the marvelous time...
...track is progressing finely, and everybody seems pleased with it. But there is one thing which we venture to suggest as an improvement, that is raising the corners on the outside. An English authority says "experience also shows that if from necessity or other cause the corners of a path are more or less sharp, the danger of falling for bicyclists (and of spraining one's ankle for runners) is considerably lessened, and awkwardness decreased, if they are well raised on the outside. And we find that fast men on the bicycle fight very shy of tracks unsafe in construction...