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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 6, 1927)
10 T HE BATTALION AGGIELAND TO HAVE NEW ATHLETIC FIELD (Continued from Page 1) 10,000 additional temporary seats for the Thanksgiving game, Sullivan said, which will make available 30,- 000 seats for the 1927 Turkey Day Game. The permanent seating capac ity of the A. and M. Stadium of steel seats heretofore used has been 9,000, though it has been possible to raise this by temporary seating stands to 25,000. The new stadium will occupy the same position on the east side of Kyle Field heretofore occupied by the old. The initial concrete unit will be on the west side. It will be 360 feet long, 90 feet deep at the bottom, and forty rows high. The steel stand on the east side of the gridiron will not be disturbed for the present. The steel structure on the west side to be re placed by the concrete unit, will be put in place at the north end, forming the bottom of the U-shape and connect ing the concrete unit with the steel unit on the east side. Two other con crete units in time will replace the steel on the north and east. The south end will be left open, forming the mouth of the U. By the addition of four and a half acres to Kyle Field on the south, the present area of 10 1-2 acres will be increased to fifteen. This will form a plot 300 yards long by 250 yards wide as the home of sports at Aggieland. It will afford space for the varsity football gridiron within the stadium and two practice football fields; var sity baseball field, and a diamond for the freshman team; track course in cluding straight-a-ways and circular course and pits for jumping, polje vaulting, etc. The basketball court is in the present gymnasium where am ple locker and shower facilities to ac commodate the athletes are located. Under the new arrangement, the track course will be moved from the baseball field to the inside of the stadium, around the football grid iron. The circular track around the football gridiron will be 25 feet wide and there will be a 30-foot wide, 220- yard straight-away course extending through the open south end of the stadium. These courses will have con crete curbs on both sides all the way around. Through this arrangement the stadium will furnish seating facili ties for the track meets. The base of the track courses are being laid now. The varsity baseball diamond will be moved from its present site to the southwest corner of the enlarged Kyle Field. Batters will face directly north, which will eliminate sun-glare for the outfielders. The present baseball grandstand of wooden seats will be moved but the seating capacity will be increased by 1,000 seats, making a total capacity of 4,000 seats in the' baseball grandstand. Work moving this stand will start about June 1, af ter the present diamond season. The new baseball diamond site has already been graded and sown with Bermuda grass. By next September, the met amorphosis of Kyle Field, with the ex ception of the all-concrete- stadium, will be a reality, Sullivan said. A feature of especial interest to sports writers in connection with the new Stadium will be the press box which “Sully” has planned. This will be a press box lacking in no facility for the sports writers. With the ex ception of the front, it will be in closed as a protection against wind and rain. Thirty-six seats and desk • room for thirty-six will be provided. The press box equipment with elec tric lights, radio wire, two telegraph wires, long distance telephone, six field telephones. The sports writers will have at his hand all conveniences for dispatching his report without leaving his seat in the press box. The financing of these improve ments for Kyle Field by the Athletic Department from its income over a period of years, will be a process of putting into the athletic plant at the College the revenues from college sports, a self-sustaining, self-building process. The realization of the com pletely worked out plan will be the realization of a dream that has ab sorbed the unflagging interest, the. constant attention of Business Mana ger Sullivan since he first took over the reins of business manager of the department in June of 1919. Under “Sully’s” regime, the athletic plant of the College has grown step by step from a property probably worth $10,000 to its present dimensions. Kyle Field was smaller in 1919 than it is now. A dilapidated board fence sur rounded it. There was no steel sta dium, no baseball grand stand, no gymnasium building, no tennis court accommodation. Kyle Field toady stands as an example of what can be done in building up a physical educa tion laboratory. When all of the plans that are revolving in “Sully’s” brain are worked out, it will be a more com pelling example. LONGHORNS DEFEAT AGGIES ON TRACK. (Continued from Page 9) to form, finished 150 yds. ahead of the Texas /team. 100-yard dash—1st—Cockrell, Tex as; 2nd—Landa, Texas. Time 9.8 sec. 220-yard dash—1st—Buck, A. and M.; 2nd—Cockrell, Texas. Time 21.2 seconds. 120-yard high hurdles—1st—Ken nedy, A. and M.; 2nd—Btallter, Tex as. Time 15.5 seconds. 220-yard low hurdles—1st—Kenne dy, A. and M.; 2nd—Stallter, Texas. Time 24.3 seconds. 440-yard dash—1st—Parker, A. & M.; 2nd—Daniels, Texas. Time 50.8 seconds. 880-yard run—1st—Crump, A. and M.; 2nd—Conner, Texas. Time 2:01.3. Mile run—1st—Miller, Texas; 2nd —Haile, A. and M. Time 4:35.3. Shot put—1st—McKenzie, A. and M.; 2nd—Bartlett, A. and M. 43 feet, 9 1-2 inches. Discus throw—1st—'Gooch, Texas; Bartlett, A. and M. 134 feet, 8 3-4 in ches. Javelin throw—1st—Smith, Texas; Yeary, A. and M. 178 feet, 4 1-2 in ches. High jump—1st—Ashley, A. and M. and Sheppard, Texas tied at 5 feet 11 1-2 inches. Broadjump—1st— Smith, Texas; 2nd—Sheppard, Texas. 23 feet 2 in ches. Pole Vault—1st—'Patterson, Texas; and Brown, Texas, tied at 12 feet. Two-Mile run—1st— Slaughter, Texas; Childers, A. and M. Time 10: 21. Mile Relay—^Winning team A. and M. composed of Burgess, Blair, O’Neal and Capt. E. Parker. Time 3:28.8. Total score, Texas 63, A. and M. 54. Our next meet will be with S. M. U. on April 9 at Kyle Field. CONFERENCE STANDING. Texas A. and M. . Won . . .2 Lost 0 Pet. 1,000 Texas U . . .3 1 .750 Rice . . .2 2 .500 S. M. U . . .1 1 .500 T. C. U . . .1 3 .250 Baylor U . . .1 3 .250 The man who says “It can’t be done” is interrupted by the man who is do ing it. * ❖ * The man who is wrapped up in him self is apt to be cold. "The natural choice— Out of the whole lot men pick Chesterfield for its cenuine tobacco Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co.