ROBINSON GYMNASIUM.
THE NEW GYMNASIUM.
800 K. U. Students Are Doing Gym Work.—Winter Training Possible.
The University track, basket ball, and baseball teams have, at last, an adequate training place during the winter months. Robinson Gymnasium, the new home of K.U. athletes, was opened to students late this fall. Built at a cost of $100, 000 it is the finest gymnasium in the Missouri valley. It is furnished and appointed with the latest apparatus used in all branches of athletics The whole building is arranged with a keen regard for the better physical development of young men and women.
The gymnasium is under the supervision of Dr. James Naismith, for years director of athletics at the University. Dr. Naismith is an expert trainer in all athletics and is the inventor of basket ball. There are seven instructors who direct the training of the gymnasium classes of 800 students.
In the gymnasium there are two class rooms for girls, seven
for boys and two for the faculty. Besides there is an auditorium with a seating capacity of three thousand, a locker room with shower baths, a large swimming pool, and a fine running track. A baseball cage will be put in the basement later in the year.
Regular classes are held in the gymnasium in track, boxing, wrestling, fencing, tennis, basket ball and handball. There are a tennis court and a regulation basket ball court on the second floor.
In the future the commencement exercises, basket ball games, important University events and some class parties will be held in Robinson Gymnasium. The building will be dedicated during the commencement week in June.
- PAUL HARVEY.
WON FIRST GAME.
Jayhawkers Trim Baptist Five 66 to 22 in Initial Contest.
Last Friday evening, in the first, inter-collegiate, athletic contest held in the new gymnasium Captain McCune's basket ball five "ducked" the Ottawa
Baptists 66 to 22. Coach Brumage's pupils did not have a chance with the fast Jayhawkers. The red and blue five had good team work, could throw baskets from any place on the court and ran all around the Ottawa boys. The Kansans were off in a hurry and rolled up thirty-one points before the Baptists even scored.
The game demonstrates that the basket ball team is going to win most of the games on the schedule this year. Miller and Woodward, guards, demonstrated their ability in throwing goals, guarding their men. The team work of the Jayhawkers was the feature of the game.
The score:
Kansas—66. G. F. T. F.
Peard, F...3 0 0
McCune, F...4 2 0
Bergen, C...4 0 2
Miller, G...8 0 2
Woodward, G...11 0 0
Randall, F...1 0 2
Wohler, G...1 0 0
Totals...32 2 6
Ottawa—22. G. F. T. F.
Bolinger, F...4 4 0
George, F...2 0 2
Carpenter, C...2 0 0
Lee, G...0 0 0
Frohming, G...1 0 1
Totals...9 4 3