TRACK FACILITIES IN YALE BOWL

According to the present plans, there will be no running-track in the Yale Bowl, and consequently there is much agitation in New Haven for track facilities in this mammoth structure which will cost in the neighborhood of $700,000. The Intercollegiate meet has never been held at Yale because they do not have either suitable dressing rooms or adequate seating accommodations, and the Yale track authorities are very earnestly agitating the holding of this annual event at New Haven. They point out the adaptability of the Bowl to track athletics, and urge a change in the structural plans, which provide for but one sport, football, making their Stadium useful for but two months of the year.

The committee on the erection of the Bowl brings up a number of arguments against the project of altering the structure. In order to have the 220-yard straight-away necessary to track equipment, a tunnel must be cut through the embankment of the Bowl at the excessive cost of from thirty to fifty thousand dollars. Not only is this objection raised, but it is maintained that the arrangement would create powerful air currents which would hinder the runners and that the other colleges would therefore refuse to compete on such a track. Other arrangements have been suggested, such as cutting through both sides of the Stadium, but the committee in charge does not agree that any expedient as yet offered will surely compensate for the expense and the probability of failure because of air currents.