New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-01-01
L.ONDON'S VAST ARENA
Amphitheater For Olympic Games
Will Seat 10000.
MARVEL IN SIZE AND BEAUTY
The Stadium at Athens or the Coliseum
Would Be Lost Within lt-Rhodes
Scholars in England May Compete
For the United States.

Nothing more extraordinary as con.
structiye feat is to be seen just now
In London, England, than the city with
in city which is rising as rapidly as
Aladdin's palace on the open spaces
of Shepherds bush, says the New York
Post. Astounding advance 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 by
20 feet, are already outlined in steel.
iron and concrete, for many external
decorations have already been affixed
to the freproof structural walls Two
hundred and fifty thousand square feel
of floor space have been rooted over for
the machinery hall alone. Other pal.
aces are rising rapidly for education
fine arts, music and woman's work.
In its present condition, with only
the two great segments finished al
each end of the mighty ellipse, the
Olympic arena irresistibly reminds the
spectator of the Coliseum as that ven.
cradle monument Of imperial Rome
now looks in the splendor Of its ma.
jestic 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. center
OF London's latest marvel. The am.
phitheater of Mines OR Aries could be
hidden away at one end of the Shep.
herds bush arena and scarcely inter.
fere with its proportions. Some $4,000
people will be able to sit around its
spacious seats and watch the greatest
athletic gathering the world has ever
seen
According to reports from the vari.
GUS 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 host of entrants,
and the. winner Of any special event
can wei be termed champion Of the
world in his particular speciality
The Olympic games will be held I'M
der the auspices of the British Olym.
pic council. The American committee
which has been appointed in accord.
ance with the wishes of Lord Desbor,
ough as president of the Olympic coun
ell, is a representative one, the honora
~ president being Theodore Roosevelt
president of the United States; Caspal
Whitney, president, and Julian 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
! yidual entry He must be a 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
4 United States Or having migrated tt
! 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 il
the event of them showing such elias!
that they would be entitled to place:
on the team can be called upon Il
compete under the stars and stripes a
/ the O1ymnic crameS-tha Rhodes schol
arship men. Under the ruling of Lore
Desborough these men are eligible
None of the Rhodes men are worlt
heaters. but in intercollegiate meet
they have been placed well most of TIL
time
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