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Show Big Hero at University of Washington Is Seen It may be that the great hero at the University of Washington next fall will not be any member of the football squad, but rather some student stu-dent In the agricultural school, who through exhaustive researches had devised de-vised a prompt and opulent and not too expensive means of making two blades of grass grow where none grew before. Up In the far Northwest turf grid-Irons grid-Irons are as rare as palm trees in Central park, New York. Which is to say there Is none. For one thing because be-cause of the rains grass does not take a good hold and even when it does the wetness crentes conditions which militate mili-tate against good football when It cornea to forwnrd passing and general gen-eral ball handling. So the scheme has been to build playing fields out of a combination of sand and fir tree dust, which does amazingly well, rain as it may. |