Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-03-10
WORK TO START
FIRST OF APRIL
Stadium TO BE 600 Feet Long
and 200 Feet Wide. Pro-
vides All Sport.
L0NG-FELT NEED FILLED
1900 Ward and High School
Now Without AN Ath-
letic Field.


AthloucF ai Tulsa high school and
In the ward schools have been under
a handicap, due to inadequate play
inr q cillues Tho ward schools wtrs
compelled to go without football ana
Il VIII also be impossible tor them
10 play baseball because Of no
grounds Tulsa high school used
Asiociatlon park for football hut
TINT park will not ho available for
baseball.
To provide suitable athletic
grounds for competition In various
sports. for both tho high school and
ward schools, the city Bohool board
has completed plans for tha erection
of a $4,000 stadium. 20 be rimi!ar
10 that OF Yale. Harvard and other
large universities
ueorg1 Wlnkler, architect hns
drawn up tho tentative plans and
work VIII soon start on the stadium.
which IL 90 bc one OF tho southwest
largest athletic fields Material tas
been ordered Tor tho construction OF
the Stadium and fence and II IL rrob-
able that the first spada on tho OK.
rayaiiou will be turned by April
az the latest,
East OF Maple Hidge.
The stadium II 10 be erected be.
tween Nineteenth and Twentieth
streets and cinpinnall and noatnn
and east OF Maple Ridge pArK, next
10 tho Lee school In tho Lea build-
ins dressing robins viii he equipped,
shGwerr Installed and two model
rooms for visiting and homo players
built.
Boys In various ward schools Of
the city could not play football last
tall due 10 lack OF q playground.
They will likewise be forced 10 con.
tent themselves with indoor basehall
: To- place of the outdoor game thia
spring, In kcepias with the policy
Ut Tmports for ALL as outiInsd by
lsadinE lights OF the nation. II is ia
stntiai that the younger students be
kfvrp tho means 10 participate In
ErQrth, the same "a the older. Even
NINA high school was forced 10 play
on Erounds not thdir own during the
football season and with the raxing
OF the grnndstand and fences ut A.
soc'auon park, the sch9lastics lose
spring. ~. ~
one thousand high schhol ssudeuts
and $4,000 ward school pup,la will
BE- forced TO so without athletles this
spring, tins when an ynungstors
should be permitted ~ innuyre III
ethletic contests, because Of ths lack
~ q playground. The school bnard
Old big thing when " waited 10
erect the stadium.
Fur All sports. 9f
Tho grounds are 10 be ineloaed
with q high hoard fence. In the
center, baseball and football fields
Will be ehalked off In their. respec.
tive seasons. A runnlng truck, prob-
ably a quarter of mile, viii nIr-
round the playing field. Tennis
courts will be made Ia corners OF
the pare. Hainforccd concrete
bleachers are 10 be constructed, one
on ths east sids and ono on the west.
M kSildinr of ihs west bIeachers,
pv vhafK are 10 snnt from $500 to 5000
pt.CAsk Tns saat hiea achers are to
bsNnAh IN the f0i d uext srrlns,
The park NJ 20 ~ 8et fest ,onr
and 200 feot wids. ample room TO
permit the playing OF d baseball
ramet teutitt tnhtrNeH hnH hpfdlnE VI
a track meet at the same time. fhe
field may also thv used for military
trlll. h#
while IL win be ~ srea, vaias In
rroviding q means to play ''match'
games. the value Of the stadium hH q
recreation grounds mus. not he over.
looked. With the exception OF parks
devoid Of play apparatus, end over
crowded tennis courts Tulsa is with
out public Fairgrounds, The high
school stadium may he used FOR this
purpose thruout the year. II hni
been suggested that the stadium
might be used for q professional
league baseball park, but that Il i'm
probable. The stadium IN 70 bo con
structed for the use Of Tulsa boyi
and girls, and not for any other pur'
pose few dollars ront might b,
gained. but no amount ean pay foi
the health giving JOY that the sla,
dium will give 10 those for whom
Il iH built.