Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-02-28
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AMPHITHEATRE FOR OLYMPIC
GAMES WILL SEAT $4,000.

Construction Will Cover 14o Acres
When complete-The Stadium at
Athens or the Coliseum Would Be
Lost Within-Rhodes Scholars in
England May Compete for This
Country.
Nothing more extraordinary, as a
constructive feat, is to be seen just
now in London than the city within
city, which is rising as rapidly as
Aladdin's palace on the open spaces
of Shepherds bush Astounding ad-
vance has been made in the last few
months in the erection of the huge
constructions that cover 40 acres of
what was desert land less than twelve
months ago.
Eight spacious halls, each 400 feet
by 20 feet, are already outlined in
steel, iron and concrete. For many
the external decorations have already
been affixed to the fireproof structural
walls. Two hundred and fifty thous-
and square feet of floor space has
been rooted over for the&machinery
hall alone. Other palaces are rising
rapidly for education, fine arts, music
and woman's work.
In its present condition, with only
the two great segments finished at
e; CHI end of the mighty ellipse, the
o ympic arena irresistibly reminds
the spectator of the Coliseum, as
that venerable monument of Imperial
Rome now looks in the splendor Of
it's majestic ruins. But the Coliseum,
with all its tiers of arches, could be
easily contained within the completed
arena of today.
The stadium of modern Athens,
seats and all, could be built within the
space of grass that forms merely the
lentre of London's latest marvel. The
amphitheatres of Mines or Aries could
be hidden away at one end of the
Shepherds bush arena, and scarcely
interfere with its proportions. Some
$4,000 people will be able to sit
around it's spacious seats and watch
the greatest athletic gathering the
world has ever seem
| According to reports from the va.
rious countries interested in sports
In all parts of the world, the assembly
of athletes will be the greatest, both
in quality and quantity. that ever COM
peted for international honors. France,
Germany, Greece, the United States
and many other nations, aside from
England and the British colonies, will
be represented by a host of entrants,
skilled in strength, speed and endur-
ance, and the winner of any special
event can well be termed champion
of the world in his particular spec
ialty.
The Olympic games will be held
under the auspices of the British
Olympic Council. The American com,
mittee. which has been appointed in
accordance with the wishes of Lord
Desborough. as president of the
Olympic Council, is representative
one, the honorary president being
Theodore Roosevelt, President of the
United States; Caspar Whitney, presi-
dent, and julius w. Curtiss, of Yale,
treasurer
No athletes of the United States vii,
be permitted to compete in the Shep-
herds bush stadium through an indi-
vidual entry. He must be member
of the American team and entered as
such by the American Olympic COM
mittee. Only native-born or natural
lied Americans, either residents of
the United States or having migrated
to foreign countries within recent
years, will be eligible for the team.
While it is not likely that any Of
them will be used, the United States
has quite a few athletes in England
itself, who, in case of necessity, or
in the event Of them showing such
class that they would be entitled to
places on the team. can be called
upon to compete under the Stars and
Stripes at the Olympic games-the
Rhodes scholarship men. Under the
ruling of Lord Desborough these men
are eligible. None of the Rhodes men
are world-beaters. but in intercol-
legiate meets they have been placed
well most of the time.-New York
Post,