Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-12

- ltttt bOAIil5 iOolIl. 20 ny ~ 1870
II fencing room, 20 by 81 feet; a hand
bell court, % by 81 feet; a hallway
with stairs leading to the Hoor above
and an entrance to the athletic build
ing for the baseball men. On the right
OF the corridor is locker room fci.
the faculty and visiting athletic teams,
containing showers, etc; a large sec
ton containing lockers for 500 men, q
room with seven showers and a small
bath room with tubs, and a rubbing
room. At the right of the end of the
corridor are two storage rooms, II by
80 feet.
The second floor of the gymnasium
building is reached by two stairways.
one leading directly up from the en-.
trance and one from the other end of
the building near the locker room.
This floor contains the main exercising
room liz by 16 feet. a special eXer-
cising room % by q feet, for carry
ing out the exercises prescribed for
students to correct physical defects;
and two Offices which would also be
used FOR physical examinations.
Above tile Offices and special eXer-
cising room will be trophy room
reached from the second floor hallway.
II is planned to keep here all athletic
trophies, including cups, baseballs,
footballs and pennants won by the
BowdCin teams. The trophies of for
iner years are being gathered together
by DR. F. \. Whittier and will be ar
ranged as soon as the building is
ready. Arranged about the trophG
room Also will be oak tablets OH
which will be.inscrhed the names OF
all who have contributed for the con
struetion of the building, the alumni
and the students arranged according
10 classes and the friends Of the col
lege arranged in order The trophy
room viii be open an the side towards
the gymnasium floor and viii serve a
q visitors gallery.
The General Thomas W. Hyde ath-
letic building will be surpassed BY
none i'll New England. The frame OF
the building will be Of steel and tin.
floor OF screened gravel subcoil. |.
will he reached from the locker room
by two doors. one for the track men
and one for the baseball men. Thu
outside entrance will be large enough
for a two horse team. II will serve
for inGoer prsac tice for all of the out
door sports now in vogue at Bowdoin
here Will be excellent opportunits
for football practice when the squad
tcannot work out of doors. Goal post
cen be erected, at one end so as
give 1pportuiS&' for practice in kick
| ing 40 yard goals. There will he rooHi
| Cor full-sized baseball diamond wit
il feet on the oHsside of each of til
base lines, to givSsqpportunity to over
run bases Tennfs' courts may l.
| marked out when desired \ porto
Of the building next to the gymnasium
| proper will be Melted off for trac
athletics giving space 20 by 10 fec
| tor practicing shot put, high jun,
! broad jump, pole vault, short dashe
and other events. Thirteen feet aboy
the floor around the building will t
| running track. Il laps to a mile J
| feet wide and with corners raise
three ana a half feet The track wi
| he reached from the gymnasium e.
| ercising floor by a door and by spir.
| StairNays from each of the corner
Of the athletic building next to I'll
| gymnasium building. The track VI
| be separated from the baseball die
mond by net. This building will l.
a great asset to the equipment {
| Bowdoin athletics. as during the Ell
| tire winter track and baseball practie
may he carried on at the same tim
/ The annual indoor meet and athlet.l
| exhibition which is now held in In
town hall will be held in this build
| ing
| The 4. d. kimball Co. of Boston
which mad charge of the heating an
Nentilating systems of the new gym
nasiuIns at Dartmouth and the Spring
| field Training school, has been con
| suited and has presented plans for thi.
| branch of the work in the new Bow
| dom gymnasium. Fresh air will b.
taken from the athletic building int,
! the gymnasium by two ducts. witt
| outlets under the radiators and in tn
| ceilings There will Be blower 4
| accomplish the change of air. am
when this is not in use the air viii
| BE- carried up by gravity by means u
a steam coil placed high in the Ven
| between the main building and tn
athletic building. In the ATHLETE
building the radiators will be place.
under the running track seven fee
from the floor. Nv means Of the fan.
| IL" 'ir il tbF lam ext rcisiag rcon
| can be chang 4 cVrrr twenty minutes
| II is expected t,5at the new buiidin.
viii b" re8dy for Use nv next fall arc
Tat WORT. in phYsiral training thi.
winter. pill he the last held i'm til,
Sargent gymnasium.