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Owing to the bad condition of the ground, the baseball game with Trinity College, which was to have been played on Soldiers Field this afternoon has been cancelled...
Progress on the tennis courts has been delayed by the frost and it will be impossible to have them in condition for play before next Wednesday. All the courts on Jarvis Field have been raked and fresh dirt added to make an even surface, but as the ground is still too soft for use, only two or three courts have been rolled. A new wire netting has been put in the centre backstop and the other two backstops are to be repaired. Work on the Holmes Field courts will be begun in about a week...
Single stairways will connect the middle promenade and the upper part of each aisle. Eight large stairways will be built between the ground floor and middle corridor. The concrete, where the strain is too severe, will be strengthened by twisted steel rods, as in the rest of the structure...
Work will begin on the Stadium as soon as the ground has thoroughly thawed. Two towers, projecting at the end and outside of each arm of the Stadium, will be built first. These towers, which are of simple Tuscan architecture, will contain a series of short flights of stairs rising from the ground and connecting both the middle and upper promenades of the main structure. The ground and middle corridors will have arched windows, while the top corridor will have rectangular openings leading out upon a Tuscan balcony. The roof of the upper promenade will be continued to form...
Four new courts, three singles and one double, are to be made on Holmes Field, on the ground formerly occupied by the hockey rink; work will be commenced as soon as the ground is dry and it is expected that the courts will be in condition for play this spring. This addition brings the total number of courts open to the University up to 38; of these 26 are on Jarvis Field and 12 on Holmes Field...