Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1919-09-25
SEEK $4,000 FUND
FOR ALMA ATHLETICS
Students and Alumni of Alma
College Have Started Cam
paign to Secure Money.

The students and alumni of Alma
college are uniting in an effort to i'm
prove Davis field and other athletic
equipment to the Presbyterian in
stitqtion to the extent of $4,000,
which it is hoped will be available in
the very near future for the work
which is being contemplated.
This big movement has had its be-
ginnings with the student body of
the college. At a recent meeting of
the athletic association President H..
M. Crooks acted as spokesman and
presented an estimate of the require
ments made out by Athletic Director
Alger II. Wood and others who have
been most prominent in their inter-
est in athletics at the college. Athlet-
ic equipment, acknowledged as a ne
cessity in the promotion of health
and happiness among college stu
dents, has increased in price TO a
great extent Over twelve hundred
dollars will be required to properly
equip the teams that Coach Wood
will send onto the field to represent
Alma this year.
Davis field needs new beachers.
estimated to cost 1,50O. A new
roadway, appropriate to dignity the
entrance to which it leads, new sod
on the football gridiron, new sur
face on the running track, several
inches of loan and clay on the base
ball diamond are all needed. These
will cost from $3.50 to $1,000.
Last year the tennis courts were
crowded past their capacity, and two
new courts adjoining those now in
use are planned las well as a court
at Wright Hall, solely for the young
women who WELD the racquet. The
old courts are also in need of scien-
tific treatment. This will cost about
$800.00.
Another requirement, neglected
during the course of the war. is a
new outfit of bleachers. A cyclone
two years ago, possibly caused by the
atmospheric disturbances due to the
explosions in Europe, totally wrecke I'd
the grandstand. During the war
students and faculty gave literally
to the various drives for war funds.
and athletic equipment by unanimous
consent was forced to wait. At least
81 800 will be needed for a system of
portable bleachers that can be moved
to any desired position adjoining the
field of play.
Miss Pollock, new physical in
structor for women, belives in out
door sport for young ladies'. Tennis
is 10 be developed, as well as hockey.
A hockey field back Of Wright Hall
is to be prepared and equipped at o
cost of S250.OO.
Alumni have been called into coun-
sci and the only dissent from the
plan of the students was a protest
that the students were too modest
in the estimate of their needs. Old
students from Alma and nearby cit ;es
discussed the project Tuesday even
ing and appointed committees to CO.
operate, but insisted that a fund of
$4,000 be sought. Everyone present
believed that the students, alumni.
trustees and friends of the college
would readily subscribe to such a
fund.
The securing of the fund will be
started at once, and out of town
alumni and old students asked to aid.
Committees of business men will be
formed. Students will be asked TO
pledge money and work to make the
whole program success.
BY June, 1920, every old thing is
to be in first class condition. and
most of the new things begun at
once. The spirit that made small
Alma college a feared and respected
opponent on any field or floor is to
be applied to the largest constructive
program ever launched in the notable
history of Alma college athletics.
which have reached such a standard
that Coach Brewer Of VI. A. c..
dubbed Alma The Yale Of the West. &"