Word: straightaway
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Tomorrow's regatta events include nothing but sculling races, all of which will be rowed on the half-mile up-stream straightaway. There are a total of 19 men entered for the four different events, and some unusually good races are expected...
...over 150 candidates, including a few of last year's men, from which to build up a university team. The track men will probably have the use of the large drill hall, devoted until recent times to training aviators. This hall contains space or a big track, a straightaway, and also for a basketball court and other gymnasium equipment. The new hall, together with the out-door board track, the baseball cage and the Schoellkopf Field will give Cornell an athletic plant equal to any other in the country...
...board track which is used every winter will be laid between the Locker Building and the cinder straightaway before the end of the week, so that work can progress upon the boards in spite of snow or frozen ground. The baseball cage will be heated and lighted for the field event men, including jumpers, vaulters and weight-throwers. A large number of candidates for this department are needed, since it is usually the weakest in the University team...
...first time this year the Stadium track was in use. Although it is still a little soft, it is better than the other track, and the former will be used from now on. Only the straightaway and the track along the western side of the bowl are in proper condition as yet, but a few more days of this warm weather or a warm rain will get the frost out of the ground, so that the entire track can be put into shape...
Lynn harbor is a salt water inland bay with a six-mile straightaway ending at Revere Beach. Though rough at this time of the year this is the only available stretch of water now free from...