Word: bleachers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...every court day for over six weeks fourscore New York poultrymen roosted on a bleacher in a Federal courtroom in Manhattan. Alleged racketeers of the poultry trade, they were on trial en masse for conspiracy to restrain commerce (TIME, Oct. 21). Twenty-two defendants pleaded guilty or were dismissed during trial. Last week the jury found 66 of the remaining bleacherites guilty, two innocent...
...wind which never let up once all afternoon made it nearly impossible for either team to score or even threaten when they were facing it. The play from beginning to end was for the most part fairly near the goal line down in the bleacher end of the park...
First problem was the courtroom's seating capacity. Solution: Carpenters banged and hammered, put up a six-tier bleacher, collected $417. Cross-pieces of white pine, at 16-inch intervals, marked off the benches into 86 numbered seats. Each prisoner had a number corresponding to his seat so that a roll could be called and absentees quickly detected. Lawyers for the defendants vainly objected to the cramped quarters of their charges...
...crowd was happy. It was a Sunday ball game. Suddenly, without warning, clouds appeared, thunder clapped, rain poured down. Straw hats, spring clothes were in danger. The bleacherites arose en masse and rushed for the wire-lined exits. The exits were small, the rushers many. In the right-field bleacher section, called "Ruthville" because George Herman ("Babe") Ruth knocks most of his homeruns there, a young girl and an old man were trampled to death, 62 others injured...
...Walter Camp Memorial with its impressive colonnade entrance to the Walter Camp Field is nearing completion and serves as a magnificant improvement to the property along Derby Avenue. The new baseball stands containing 6,000 covered seats and 6,000 bleacher seats will be ready for the first baseball game next spring. These new stands are symmetrical and fire proof and will be a great improvement over the old wooden stands which were built in a very irregular fashion. The new stands will provide 1453 more covered seats than were available in the old stand. The varsity baseball diamond...