Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-03-21
|FN1H LYMPIAD
 ARAT|0NS ARE NOW BEING MADE
stadium at Antwerp Will i. Ready to Open On
 August l5

pyenth UlyHlplau "ii" '0 oiS"
 feel confident that everything ,
 1. in readiness before the open
 the stadium on August 15. < {he Belgian delegates appear
 .fore the International Olympic
 ,ttee few months after the ar
 ce to claim for Antwerp the
 of being chosen as the seat
 Seventh Olympic Games, much {,
 was expressed as to the possi |
 of organizing in less than a
 sporting carnival the prep
 m of which at Athens and i
 holm had taken several years.
 ttle more than six months after
 laying of it's cornerstone the
 ntiye committee of the Seventh
 bisd invited the newspaper cor
 nndents to visit the Stadium,
 h is practically completed.
 tuated at the gates of Antwerp,
 outside the Notifications, in the
 suburb of Beerschot-Kiel, cas-
 Accessible from the city. The
 fun covers an area of some 10
 [re acres. The principal entrance
 ituated at the southwest angle. i
 either side of this monumental
 ance the athletes dressing rooms, wer-baths, are being erected. At
 north east angle another entrance mounted by a triumphal arch 60
 high, has been cut through the lent structure. Through that gate
 pass the King of the Belgians, lce Leopold and other members
 he royal family of Belgium when |
 choose to honor the game with tr presence.
 Pn the summit of the triumphal above the latter entrance will a vast platform, whence buglers, |mphets, heralds will announce to attendance the arrival of the | hpetltors of the read races as they Ter the Stadium for the final turn )und the track.
 An enormous blackboard facing in- |e the stadium will be hung down lnl the top of the triumphal arch, [ |ereupon vii be recorded by eiectri- | apparatus the results Of various [ npetltlons being contested. Cn either side of the stadium is q of box-staals, AS in all, each ac- nodating eight spectators. More ar eight "boXes of honor" in the lter of which stands the Royal 1 x are inserted between the or lary boxes on the southern side of structure. Immediately behind 1 Royal Box" stands the diplo- eaS,x. The public stand on the N uside has a seating capacity ! 'gF0Hswhile the stand to the north f accomodate $500. There will be ndlng room for 19.000 more, thus bling 3O,000 people to attend Oly- lc games daily.
 'avlllion wherein dressing rooms the athletes are being pht{ sup i asures 500 yards and contains six sslng rooms of IA yards by T. restaurants are being q a for the benefit of spectators. | 5Fsrena itself measures 190 by yards. The Stockholm stadium ll6 yards long by TT yards wide. width Of the running track cir g tne stadium is 10 yards. For hundred yard and the hundred re dash, however, a straightaway te directly in front of the princi- stand, the southern one, meas E lSo yards in length with 1n of IA yards is being prepared. circular track measures 41OI res or about 450 yards. The foot held is 116 yards long by A Is wide.
 ,ach Robertson of the University ,ennsylvania has several athletes I's track team who hope to rep h5 the United States in the com uiymplc game at Antwerp. In Eoy the interallied 400 metre npion and recent winner of the rose 600 yard event in New York, ertson believes that he has the 'al successor of "Ted" Meredith, startled the athletic world in
 py winning the 400 and 600 'e events at Stockholm.
 'siaes Eby, Pennsylvania has star quarter milers in Elmer h. Davis, Gustavson and Maxam. either Eby or Maxam as an man this quartet would be ls enough to represent America | ne l,6oO metre relay.
 " others, Sherman Landers and GU e1t smalley are likely to make olymplc team. Landers is a fine sauiIef' running broad jumper IS the national hop-step and ' 'itle holder while Smalley has Inn n remarkable ability over the