The sun., 1906-02-25

second time He has big reputation as
golf player and can, besides. do things on
the athletic field az well as in baseball ano
football.
Rianlry H. accomplished only in slightly
smaller degree Rou-u and Speh are wen
known former football captains and ai<
round men Ii is at once the misfortune
and the redit of the Hamilton athtetio
system that such mon as these do not go
afpd and show the oth her colleges whae
capabe at thletes a. well M students are pro~
duced al Hamilton
Gymnasium facilities at Hamilton are
better now than they have been before ioI
many years. The present. building, SopeV
GYMNASIUM 1t was erected in 1922, upon
the site of Oneida Hall, which was built ID
1897. In 1922 the building was known az
Kirkland Hall and later IA Middle College,
In 1901 the transformation from Middle Col(
lege TO the present equipment was coins
peted This was possible through the gene
erosty Of the Soper family.
As has been described, the building ha9
three floors. The top floor is well llghteo
and is for the main exercising hall. Aoout
it hang many of the championship banners
OF the New York State intercollegiate AsS
sociaton won by Hamilton from time to
| time.
The second floor is devoted to the running
| rack, which runs about the extreme outside
| Of the room close to the walls. The track is
banked at the turns, and by the arrange-
ment of the room it is well ventilated There
| is none of the sitting sensation while rum
ming that makes so many indoor tracks
worthless except for the mere motion OK
running
The lower floor is given over to the direo-
tors office and to the swimming tank and
baths The swimming bank was pre-"
sented to the college in the spring OF loo0'
also by the Sopers.
From the exterior the building is severely
plain, according to the conventional archi.
lecture OF the period in which it was built.
College buildings in those days were NOT
supposed to be ornamental. The arrange
ment of the interior bellies the somewhao
| forbidding aspect of the outside.
The athletic field at Hamilton. like several
other institutions at the place, recalls Revo-
lutionary times. II is named Steuben FleldD
after Gen. Steuben.
1t is equipped with quarter mile running
| track and designed SO that baseball and
football games may be played comfortably
within its confines. There are several exc
cellent tennis courts, and these are in use
daily throughout the spring. Land is not
so expensive in the towns in which most
small colleges are situated, and for THAI
reason many of them have athletic feld4
that put to shame those OF the larger coi<
| leges situated III towns aud cities wher0
| land has huge value.
One of the main amusements Of the winter
time at Hamilton is coasting. There is q
long hill running down from the colleges
for nearly mile and nuarter, with enough
turns in it to make the sport exciting. ThlA
| forms a very convenient means OF descent
for the students in the winter time, and q
man in a hurry to catch car for Utica bag
only to trundle out his sled and get it started
at the top of the hill right outside the Come
mons building another Soper gift.
The sleds get going with great speedl
and II IL merely case Of holding on tight
for seemingly a few seconds before the bot<
tom of the long hill is reached. There u Z
big tree on one side Of the pathway. at the
foot of which the students leave their sledsl
The.sleds are picked up again on the returd
trip and brought back to the college.