Word: miles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...list of 31 names which have been entered in the Boston Athletic Association games to be held in the Boston Arena on Saturday evening. Fewer Crimson runners will participate in the games this week than did in the Knights of Columbus meet, the hurdles, dash and two mile being the only races outside the relays to which the University men have been entered...
...with a cargo of serum strapped to his skidding sled. He was driving a team through the Adirondack woods, near Lake Placid, in the second Annual Lake Placid Sled Dog Derby, which he won with a total elapsed time of two hours and 32 minutes for the two 15-mile laps of the run. Later the most famous of dog team drivers banqueted in the Lake Placid Club with his ten less successful competitors...
...especially in New England and the Northwest, dog-racing is becoming popular like all other winter sports. Last week Edward P. Clark won the 220-mile Berlin to Boston race, which stopped at Lowell, Mass., when a thaw spoiled the snow on the road to Boston. At the March winter carnival in The Pas, Man., will be revived the derby from The Pas to Flin Flo and back, with a $2,000 first prize and Emil St. Goddard, present world's champion, an entrant...
...industry and to upset all previous methods. He had engineers design a small, tough cab. of low upkeep cost. He manufactured dozens, hundreds of them. He painted them an eye-arresting yellow-orange. He announced rates that knocked the public's eye out- 30? for the first mile, and no charge for the "dead haul'' (let a driver go five miles to get a 30? passenger if necessary). The Yellow cabs were shined up every day. Dentists and doctors took care of the drivers. Knowing well the importance of his drivers, Mr. Hertz often rode with them...
...squad of about 45 men has been picked to wear the University colors at the annual Knights of Columbus games which will be held in Boston a week from tonight. Captain J. L. Reid '29, who has been entered in the Curley Mile, is expected to place in that event, while Leslie Flaksman '29, star two miler, should be among the leaders in his event, according to Coach Farrell. Representatives of the University will be entered in many of the other events...