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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1921)
ADEQUATE ATHLETIC EQUIPMENT IS SOUGHT FOR HIM FIELD Seating1 Capacity of Grand stand Must Be Increased, Says McClain. GROWING DEMANDS OF UNIVERSITY TO BE MET Baseball Diamonds, Tennis Courts, Needed for Completion. In the midst of what used to he a spongy swamp, the University and stu dents have built within the past three years, what is generally conceded to be the best athletic field on the Pacific coast. Hayward Field, some few years ago was damp and muddy, abounding in marsh buttercups and mosquitoes. To day, however, its appearance is greatly altered. In place of the rushes and 'swamp grass, is a fine gridiron of turf, surrounded by a seating capacity of 7200. It is estimated that more than .$13,000 has been expended in converting the marsh into the up-to-date athletic field upon which the Pacific Coast Conference .track meet is to be held to-day. “Experts—men who have participated in meets in the last two years.” said (Marion F. 'McClqjn, former graduate manager “say that this is a much better track than the one at Washington and also superior to the track at Stanford, where the conference meet was held last year.” Work on the track was sttarted last summer. After the grading was com pleted. an eight-inch drain pipe was laid around the field in the center of the track, with smaller laterals every 20 feet.providing perfect drainage. The pipes were covered with 10 inches of coarse, crushed rock, three-inch layers of fine rock, then four inches of cinders mixed with som* clay as a hinder and topped off with fine, screened cinders. The truck runs completely around the football field, is a quarter mile in length and 24 feet wide, providing eight lanes three feet wide, for as many runners. The football field, about which the row track is built, was started in 1919. The swamp was drained, by means of large and small tiles connecting with the Agate street sewer. The ground was leveled off and covered with T4 inches of gravel and a like amount of river-bottom loam, in which the grass seed was sown The field is higher in the center, which facilitates drainage. Governor Ben W. Olcott dedicated the field at the first game played upon it (a victory over O. A. C. in the fall of 1919). and christened it Hayward Field honoring the veteran physical trainer of Oregon’s athletes. According to Mr. McClain, however work on the field is not to cease with the completion of the race track. Many plans have been made for the future which will make Hayward field the ath letic center for the men of the Univer sity. When the project is finally com pleted. it will provide several basebah diamonds, football practice fields, tennis courts and a building for the use of the j athletes. j “The brunt of the expense thus far.'’ he said, “has fallen upon the student body, which seems rather unfair, consid ering that the improvements are of a permanent nature and not Tor temporary use alone.” Tn addition to the new athletic fields which must be constructed to meet the growing demands of the University ath letics. said Mr. McClain, provision must be made for a greater seating capacity than the bleachers and grandstand now afford. More than 48,500 passed through the gates at the O. A. C.-Oregon game at Corvallis last fall, and, since Hayward field will accommodate but 7200, accom modations must be provided for even a larger body for the Homecoming game to be played with O. A. C. here next fall. Hayward field when completed, with its turf gridiron, its race track, including a 220-yard straightaway, and grandstand surrounded by tennis courts, baseball diamonds and football practice field, will give to the University adequate and mod ern facilities for the furtherance of l>h> - sical training and athletics on the Ore gon campus. Patronize Emerald Advertisers. The Mode Millinery S. L. Rankin 42 West 7th Street Eugene,.Oregon NEW HALL IS TRIBUTE TO FRIEND OF WOMEN Distinctive Unit In Quadrangle Is Named In Recognition of Mrs. Campbell. The latest addition to the women’s quadrangle. Susan Campbell hall stands as a tribute to one who has done a great deal for the women of the University Mrs. p. L. Campbell. The plan of this quadrangle is to have a part of the cam pus devoted to buildings which are direct ly concerned with the welfare, comfort and education of the University women. The Woman’s building. Hendricks hall and Susan Campbell hall are the three units of the quadrangle already complet ed. and a domestic science building, which is to be erected just back of the 'Admin istration building, will complete this part of the campus building program. The new' hall, while it seems to be p great deal like Hendricks to the casual observer who sees it from some vantage point on the campus, is in reality quite distinctive in itself. The general plan of the two halls is the same, with the excep tion of the fact that Susan Campbell has no dining room, but the interior deco ration is decidedly different. The dignified colonial atmosphere of the Hendricks drawing-room has been replaced in the new hall by old English .furniture, blue cretonne hangings from London, and woven rugs. This variety of treatment does away with any of that tiresome sameness which is so ofteD found in halls of residence on other uni versity campuses. In the basement there is a recreational room, provided with a piano, where the girls may come to dance or for fireside parties. The suites are furnished with study tables, comfortable chairs and conches. About 7o girls are now living there with Miss Mabel Withycombe as house mother. The twTo halls are to be added to in the future as the demand arises, so that 500 girls can eventually he housed. Hampton's East 9th Street Silk Dresses, Silk Waists, Organdie Waists In Color. Berry Piano and Furniture Company COMPLETE HOUSE FURNISHERS Lane County Representative Tlie Baldwin Piano Company Factories, Cincinnati and Chicago Eugene, Oregon Taxidermy That’s Different N E * E. C. ECKERT Scientific Taxidermist and Tanner ; i 197 8th Are. West Eugene, Ore. LARGE’S SNOWY WHITE OrgandieffFrocks / FOR GRADUATION and later wear $9.75 to $25.00 Frills and Sashes Are Inseparable Tiliey are liere. tlie long anticipated (Trad nation Frocks of snowy r white organdie and sheer silk crepe mate rials. 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