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the school buildings marked as "community centers" in the map, for the proper handling of this group, and also, as will be seen, of group 4.
Group 3-young people that is, of from fourteen to twenty-one, have, of course, an entirely different set of needs. This is the age of team play at its highest development. Their games and sports are far beyond the powers of younger children, and require much larger areas for their accommodation. An athletic field for this group should be laid out to accommodate baseball in the summer, football in the fall, skating in the winter, track athletics in the spring, tennis for all seasons but winter, hockey and basket-ball.
Evanston is already well on the way toward providing for the needs of this group. Five fields, as above described, would meet, amply, the city's needs. Three of these are either already owned, or on the way to acquirement-Mason Park, Foster Field, and the grounds for the new high school. The other two, as will be noted, are proposed to be placed in the southern part of the town. The playground at Mason Park should be abandoned as such, and the apparatus moved to the playground at Dewey School, leaving the whole park free to serve as an athletic field. Foster Field should be treated in the same manner. Plans are under way for a proper treatment of the new high school grounds.
The treatment of all these athletic fields could probably be a combination of landscape gardening and athletic ground engineering. Indoor facilities for this group should be supplied by developing well located school property marked as "neighborhood centers" on the map. Two gymnasiums, swimming pool, shower and locker rooms should be in each community center building.
Group 4-adults. In a sense this is a very much larger problem than that presented by the needs of Groups 2 and 3, but in this particular case the proposals already made go a long way toward solving it. The development of the lake
