Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Poems were read by Poets Cale Young Rice (Stygian Freight), Clinton Scollard (Epic of Golf, Songs of Summer), Willard Austin Wattles (The Funston Double Track), Jessie Belle Rittenhouse (wife of Clinton Scollard [The Lifted Cup]). None of the reading poets were Rollins alumni...
...Track: 60-yard High Hurdles ? Weems Baskin of Alabama, 7? sec.; in Manhattan...
...Track: 2-mile Steeplechase ? Eino Purje of Finland, 9 min. 55? sec.; in Manhattan...
...Track: 16-pound Shot indoors ? Herbert H. Schwarze, Illinois A. C., 50 ft., 3 in.; in Manhattan...
...Geddes horse-racing game was one of his most famed. It occupied an entire floor of his studio. The miniature race track was 20 feet long, lined with real grandstands. Twenty mechanical horses ran at one time, drawn by invisible threads from specially built, sensitive electric motors. Each motor had a rheostat, for speed variations. When a race was about to begin the rheostats were set so that each horse would travel at a speed proportionate to its "past performance record" (.0 to 1,000). Then a so-called Chance Machine distributed ball bearings so that ten added impulses were...