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...World's Fair athletic grounds will seat 35,000 people, and contain a half-mile oval track, 440 yards with one turn, 220 yards and 300 yards straightaway...
...grow worse rather than better; after the midyears the number of candidates for the Mott Haven team is considerably increased and the inconvenience which is now experienced cannot fail to become greater. Although the curves now are far too sharp and narrow the great objection lies in the straightaway which is used the most. It would be of but little expense to double the width of the track from the gate down to the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, or to broaden it by one half, even, would make a vast improvement on the track as it is now, and the advantages...
...managers of the Athletic Union have authorized Mr. Spalding to have a one third of a mile cinder track laid out, and also a two hundred and twenty yards straightaway course. A grand-stand to seat 25,000 will be built...
...mile and a half straight away between the academic and scientific freshmen was won by the former in 7 m., 18s. by about six lengths. There were five entres in the single scull mile straightaway contest for the $500 Ford cup. The race was practically between C. G. Morris and P. S. Evans, Morris winning by three lengths in 8 m., 46 s. The closing event of the day was the mile and a half straightaway between the sophomores and juniors The sophomores...
...Harvard University Boat Club, in behalf of the Harvard freshman crew, having received a challenge from Yale for a freshman race, hereby challenge the Columbia University Boat Club, for the Columbia freshman crew, to a two mile straightaway race in eight-oared shells with coxswains, said race to be rowed at New London, on a day to be fixed hereafter...