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Show f Break Ground for New Weber ovmnasium NEW INSTITUTION WILL BE WELCOMED BY OGDEN ATHLETES 3 c ., . ' I Swimming Pool, Indoor Track, Indoor Baseball Diamond, M I Basketball Floor, Handball Courts, Tennis Courts, I i and in Fact All Branches of Sports s ! "''.' Will Be Represented Ground will' be broken Monday forj the hew Weber Gymnasium which, when completed will be one of the classiest athletic buildings in the west-! lern part of the United States. The' building will be complete in every de-l I tall and will cost about $250,000. " i The structure when completed will1 be similar to the Deseret gymnasium! in Salt Lake -and will bo completely equipped. In the basement a large! swimming pool will be erected. Thei pool it Is said will be the largest in the! slate. j An indoor track for track and field ' training will also be one of the features fea-tures of the new building. A fourteen I lap track Is now on the mantel. I Baseball games indoors, basketball, ! hand ball, tennis and in fact, the majority ma-jority of athletic games will be featured. fea-tured. With the completion of the building, Ogden will have one of tho best gymnasiums gym-nasiums in the western country 'and a building where athletic games can be staged. In fact, the state inlerscholastlc basketball bas-ketball tourney played yearly will be on of the prize athletic events of the years to come, that will be held in the new building If present plans mature. And, again, it will bo a place where the tired business man will get need- ed recreation, when he may spend a 1 l few hours daily at "limbering up" And, i ' i again, tho athletes of yesterday, will ! have a chance to stage a comeback - i and attempt to again take the starts as ; f "stars." ; f 'Twill be one of the best bets for ' Ogden In coming years, a place where ! athletic games can be held the year ! around, where the kiddies, as well as the grown-ups can indulge In sports ; f and where the women as well as the . y men, will have a chance to show their .'' j wares at athletics aad physical train- Three basketball courts will, in all i I ; probability, be built in the new struc ft jture. The hand-ball courts will be the h I best in the west, and the track will be r-B large enough to stage regular "big" U'U I league indoor meets. And, again, it I 'will give the athletes of Weber a ffirfB I J chance to train during tho winter Kf$ I i months for early spring track work. wn I j The sport world of Ogden is "thank- Ira I ing" the fathers of the men who start- B ed the Weber plans rolling, and with- jH in a few months, Ogden, Weber county IMj and the athletes and coming athletes Wmm of the city, will have a first class Hi building, where regular classes in p'hy- Hfl sical education and athletic sports will Hil be on the mantel. Ill |