Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-04-24
REVIVAL
ANCIENT GAMES
GRAND REPRODUCTION AT CHI
cAGo TWO YEARS HENCE.
OF OLYMPlAN ATHLETICS
Stadium Seating Fifty Thousand Spec
tators to be Erected-Tourneys of
Medieval Europe Also to be
Feature-Quaint Pageantry and
Costumes.


and enthusiasm at the magnitude of
the plans greeted the presentation last
night of the first authoritative outline
of preparations for the coming inter
national Olympian games in Chicago.
Before 200 distinguished guests at the
banquet of the press club, announce
ments were made in a series of adj
dresses by the Olympian games Off
Gals and other notables in whose
honor the banquet was held. A cable
gram received from Sir Thomas Lip
ton during the banquet was read,
touching upon the participation OF
himself and his new challenger, Sham
rock III, in the international yachting
feature of the games. The reading Of
this cablegram was greeted with
hearty applause The following re-
ply was Immediately sent:
''Warmest thanks for kindly words
from one we will welcome in 1904"
The principal speaker CT the even
ing was President Henry J. Furber Of
the international Olympian games
commission. Among others who
Of the Associated Press. President
Edmund J. James of Northwestern
University, Mayor Carter H. Harrison,
President Edwin A. Munger of the
Hamilton club, and Right Rev. Bishop
Samuel D. Fallows The POSTMASTER
was Judge Barton Payne who is a
member of the Olympian games execu-
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include structure of steel and con-
crete exceeding in size the great Fla
! Wan amphitheater of Rome and having
a seating capacity of ten times that
| of the Madison Square Garden in New
York. After the greeting to the ban
| Queters, by President Carr of the
| Press club, and felicitOus remarks by
| Judge Payne, President Furber said ::
''The games of 1904 will undoubted,
ly consume large portion of Septem-
| Der and October and efforts will be
| principally directed along six general
| lines. Briefly these are:
Worlds champion contests in field
and track athletics.
Equestrianism, yachting, rowing
national character.
Exhibitions OF sports peculiar to the
| various countries of the world
Purely athletic exhibitions will be
| varied by historical displays, spectacu.
| lar in nature. Evening representations
| will be given of games of ancient
| Greece and Rome and OF Journeys of
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| costumes, pageantry and settings and
! the brilliancy of those scenes will be
greatly heightened by illuminations
| and pyrOtechnical effects The mill,
| tary exercises will be rendered partic-
ularly prominent and prizes will be
awarded in all branches. All depart
ments OF the service will be represent
ed. A comprehensive exhibition will
be given and sporting apparatus and
equipment, horses, dogs, carrier pig
cons, fish, field and forest game. A
general convention of organizations
devoted to craftsmanship athleCics
and military matters will also be held.
President Furber spoke at some
length, explaining many details of
the games and the intention of the as
ISOLATION having them in charge The
stadium, he said, would have a seating
capacity of at least $4,000 and be sup
piled with everything known to mod
ern science for the comfort and pleas
ure of the spectators. Closing he
briefly compared the Columbian expo
sitiOn and the Olympian games, say
ing:
In 1893 we exhibited the best in
dustrial products of mankind. In 1904
we shall exhibit man himself in his
highest physical development and the
change in the subject matter from
creature to creator can in no sense be
a token of a decline
Architect Holabird said that the sta
dunn would cover a ground area of
500 by 1000 feet with an area of 500
fet long and 200 feet wide. He quoted
statistics showing it would be the
largest structure of it's kind in the
world
Mayor Harrison's subject was Chi
cago as Host, and Mr.. Noyes' The
Press and Olympian Games. Bishop
Fallows spoke on Athletic Training in
Relation to Moral Discipline. Col. Ed
ward c. Young on Military Features
of the Games, President James on
The Relation of Universities and the
International Olympian Games.