Waterman And Barbour Gyms

The students of the Michigan university when they return for the coming year's work will naturally be much interested in the Waterman and Barbour gymnasiums. Both gyms have been submitted to a thorough cleaning, renovating and remodeling.

The bath rooms have been fitted up with more showers, all the cornish work has been freshly painted, and the leaky roof has been repaired, with the ardent hope that it never may leak any more.  Janitor Perkins will soon be prepared to beam on the students with his accustomed smile and give them the glad hand of welcome. Summer students at the gym lay down their dumb bells and play basketball no more. Work closes Friday, after six weeks of exercise in brawn and muscle, and one of the most successful summer school sessions that has been held. The attendance was encouragingly large in comparison with last year's, and the students' enthusiastic and unwilted by the heat. The Cross Country club which was organized in the beginning of the term grew so rapidly into a pleasure and a success, that one Saturday a hare and hound chase was started off over the hills.  But the hounds caught the hare on the home stretch and no one had the honor to be present at the death. The next Saturday, races were run at the athletic field, in which a number school students took part.

"Nothing wonderful was done in the way of a record," said Mr. Teetzel, "but a pretty good time was made."

There were so many experienced basket ball players present this summer that temporary nets were improvised and game after game was played south of the tennis courts. Mr. Little starred it in this and also a glorious unknown, whose name Clayton Teetzel tried in vain to recall. The players who thus recognizes himself can leave his name and be publically appreciated.

Beside these were Gradle, Hall, Hamilton, Copp and Ronkel, who handled the racket with much skill, and played exceptionally good games.

"Big interest was shown in hand ball this summer," said Mr. Teetzel.  "It is on the principle of tennis, but a wall is used instead of a net: the ball bounds back from the wall and is hit by the opponent."

The work in physical training this summer has been under the direction of Mr. Teetzel, who has conducted the summer work here for two years. But next summer other shoulders than his must bear the burden in the heat of the day, for week after next he shakes off the dust of Waterman gym, and goes to Chicago, where he will practice his profession- the law.

Mr. Teetzel graduated from the U. of M. law school in 1900. Since then he has been instructor in physical training at the state normal, Ypsilanti, conducting work here in summer.

Mr. Teetzel has all the possibilities of handling the gavel even better than the dumb bells and has squads of friends who are perfectly confident of his success.