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Show IDEAL GYMNASIUM AT PENNSYLVANIA Will Have Basket Ball Court Seating 10,000. A new gymnasium with a basket ball court seating 10,000 spectators is planned by the council on athletics of the University of Pennsylvania. Bids will shortly be asked und' work started start-ed early In the spring on what should prove to be one of the finest structures of Its type in the United States. The basket ball court will be In the form of an Indoor stadium, which is unique for this section of the country. Ramps, such as are used In the stadia of the country, form a feature of the seating arrangements. Spectators wilj enter the center of the different sec tions of the stands and go either up op down to their seats, thus insuring k facility of movement with crowds of spectators. The arrangements of the seats permit per-mit their removal so that when regular regu-lar games are not being played, four practice basket ball courts will be aVallable at the same time. In addition addi-tion to the basket ball practice courts, sufficient space will remain for an indoor in-door baseball cage, something lojg needed at Pennsylvania. In addition to the arrangements for basket ball, the plans Include a seating seat-ing capacity of 1,500 around the swimming swim-ming pool. For the past few years Weightman hall has tieen inadequate for both basket ball and swimming crowds. . With the new seating plans, maximum crowds can be easily accommodated accom-modated for all indoor sports. Rooms are also provided in the new gymnasium for boxing, wrestling and other indoor sports. Showers and lockers are provided for every student in the university. In the new building will be the offices of the department of physical education and correctional rooms with complete apparatus to aid any student needing correctional attention. All the most modern appliances for physical education will be installed in the new building, giving the students of the university every opportunity to fit themselves physically for their life after graduation. Included in the new plans are provisions- for new offices for the council on athletics, which will be installed in the north end of the present gymnasium gymna-sium building. Weightman hall, the present gymnasium, gym-nasium, will not he torn down, but will be used for certain indoor sports, for the housing of the numerous athletic trophies won by teams representing the university in the past. The south end of Weightman hall will be altered into additional office space for the department of physical education, which will have its main office in the new gymnasium. It is expected that the new gymnasium gymna-sium will be completed in time for the 1926-27 basket ball season. |