Word: geer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Director Geer To Explain...
...Geer, Director of the Department of Physical Education in the University, is at present in Ann Arbor, Michigan, inspecting in a detailed way the athletic equipment of the University of Michigan, which is considered one of the most complete of its kind in the country. "Of primary interest," said Mr. Geer before leaving recently, "is the recently completed Yost Field House, which is large enough to stage it football game inside it, and which has seated from five to six thousand spectators at important basketball games during the past winter...
Michigan was one of the first universities to install asphalt tennis courts as a part of their athletic equipment, and since Major Moore is interested in the possibility of building courts of this kind on Soldiers Field, Mr. Geer will investigate the success that they are meeting at Michigan...
...result, notices have been posted in the boathouse all spring forbidding all swimming from the float. The decision reached yesterday by Mr. Moore and Mr. Geer to remove these signs and allow swimming from restricted portions of the float comes as a compromise between the men who protested their wish to use the float for bathing purposes, and the crew managers who would like to eliminate the bathing altogether from the boathouse...
...been serious in the past. With launches and shells constantly arriving at and departing from the float, there have been many narrow escapes for swimmers diving off the float and swimming in the surrounding waters. Fortunately, any actual mishaps have been avoided in the past, and, according to Mr. Geer, they may be obviated altogether, now that the bathing has been restricted to one end of the float...