B6 I*1* AGISTER Wednesday, March 24, 1976 Big A To Be Set For Angels Despite Who Concert Damage ANAHEIM—The playing field turf at Anaheim Stadium will be ready for the Angels’ baseball team’s first home game April 4, despite damage from a capacity crowd of rock fans at the “Return of the Who’’ concert. Sunday. Though stadium director Tom Liegler admitted the playing field would not “look as perfect as we like,’’ he said it would not hamper play in any manner. City crews were already at work this week, tearing up and resodding turf and repairing general damage caused by the crowd of 55,000 young persons who jammed the stadium to see the British rock group The main damage to the field, Liegler said, came from a bonfire one of the fans started on the outfield grass and damage from fans to the sprinkler system. In addition, the youths knocked down a portion of the outfield fence, damaged a water pump vault and vandalized signs both in the parking lot and the stadium, Liegler said. Even the artists themselves were involved in “obliterating” a backstage washroom, Liegler said. Damage, however, was not expected to exceed more than “a couple of thousand dollars.” he said. The city is expected to net more than $100,000 from the show after expenses. “It was mostly injury to our pride,” Leiger said. “We were hoping the kids would respect public equipment more than they did.” Liegler noted that different groups attract different crowds. It was a Who concert in 1970 numerous and a five-year ban on rock concerts in the city-owned facility. Police arrested 112 young persons during Sunday’s concert and cited numerous others under the state’s new liberalized marijuana law. One officer was seriously injured during a parking lot fray that erupted after dark between police and gate crashers. Price
