CONSTRUCTION NOTES 339 



interfere with each other or place the officials or spectators in jeopardy from 

 miscalculated throws. 



"After a track has been built it should not be allowed to run down, 

 constant attention being necessary to keep it up to a high standard of 

 efficiency. It is simply money wasted to build an athletic track and then 

 expect it to keep in condition without any further attention. A grounds- 

 man should be employed, whose duty it should be to care for the track 

 exclusively. In dry weather it should be sprinkled every day or two and 

 gone over daily, scraped and rolled, and all uneven surfaces brought up to 

 a level. The best made tracks will develop these depressions and the best 

 way to discover them is to go out on the track immediately after a rain- 

 storm and note where the puddles occur. Throw into each puddle a block 

 of wood, to serve as a marker when the water has disappeared. These 

 imperfections should have immediate attention. It is also a good plan to 

 have several loads of the finest sieved cinders on hand, which should be 

 worked in from time to time with the top-dressing, rolled, scraped and 

 watered. 



1. Track (quarter mile). 14. Start of 1 20 yards hurdle race. Use same sets of 



2. Running high jump. hurdles as for 220 yards hurdle race, adjusting to correct 



3. Pole vault. Standard, vaulting poles, take-off height. 



board. 15. Finish 100 yards run, 120 yards hurdle race, 880 



4. Running broad jump. Take-off board. yards run, one-mile run, five-mile run. Finish posts. 



5. Running hop, step and jump. 16. Football field. Use tennis marker for making- 



6. Fifty-six-pound weight throw for distance. Official whitewash lines. 

 56-pound brass shell filled weight, iron circle. 17. Football goal posts. 



7. Sixteen-pound shot put. Official i6-pound brass 18. Movable baseball backstop, 

 shell filled shot, iron circle, stop board. 19. Home plate (rubber). 



8. Javelin throw. Official javelins, toe board. 20. First base. Base bags, use tennis marker for 



9. Sixteen-pound hammer throw. Official lo-pound making foul lines, etc. 



brass shell filled hammer, iron circle, sector flags. 21. Pitcher's plate (rubber). 



10. Discus throw. Official Olympic discus, iron circle, 22. Basket ball court. 



sector flags. 23. Goal and backstop. Goal nets, use tennis marker 



11. Protective cage, hammer and discus throws. for boundary lines. 



12. Metal sector flags for hammer throw and discus. 24. Single and double tennis court. Marker for lines- 



13. Start 220, 440, 880 yards run; 220 yards hurdle of court. 



race. Sets (three or four) of ten combination official 25. Net and posts. Single and double nets, adjust- 

 hurdles. able posts. 



Accessories. Platform (movable) for judge at finish, gong to attach to 

 finish post to announce beginning of last lap, red worsted for finish line, 

 stakes and cord to make lanes for sprints, whistle for officials, pistol for 

 starter, megaphone for announcer, steel tapes for measuring, rake for jump- 

 ing pits. Timers provide their own stop watches. It is also advisable to 

 have a bench, with smooth board in front, securely nailed, to serve as a 

 desk for reporters." 



The plans for the Waukegan Township Athletic Field designed by 

 Jacob L. Crane, Jr., Chicago, illustrate many of the features discussed in 

 this chapter. The drainage plan is more elaborate than is usually required,, 

 since the field had a natural heavy clay soil. (See pages 338, 340, 341, 342.) 



