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...candidates for the Mott Haven team will begin keeping hours this week and hereafter the men will be expected to be in bed at 10.30 every night except Saturdays and on Saturdays at 12. The regular morning walks will not begin until the men get on the cinder track...
...White, the head master of Berkeley School, is planning several changes in the cinder-track at Berkely Oval, where the intercollegiate championships were held last year. The straight-away will be widened by about 6 feet and the corners will be well banked. This will admit of at least two more contestants running at once in the dashes and should result in cutting down the time in the bicycle race considerably...
...college with a new athletic field, as the present grounds are in every way unsuitable. The new field covers an area of five acres, and is large enough for a baseball field, running track and numerous tennis courts. Around the grounds there is to be a quarter mile cinder track, with 120 yards straight away for short dashes. A large grandstand accommodating 1,000 people will be placed in the most advantageous position, on each side of which will be the bleachers. A carriage stand will also be provided...
...Holmes Field be flooded has been heard many times by the writer; is there any sufficient reason why the suggestion should not be acted upon? Two reasons why it has not been done in the past have been quoted, viz., fear of injury to the grass and to the cinder track. If it is possible for harm to be done to either of these by ice, the conditions which usually prevail on Holmes Field during the winter are the worst possible and the addition of six inches of water, enough to cover the field, would dimiinish rather than increase...
from the walls. The floor will be of a composition consisting chiefly of clay and will be made as hard and true as possible. Outside the diamond will be a cinder running track of only 12 laps to the mile and at one end a gallery is to be constructed for the use of spectators...