The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-12-05

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season which has Just ended has proved
beyond doubt, and that 10 that New
York Chicago, Boston and Philadelpha
and the other large cities to lesser DE-
gree, must sooner or later erect nuss
games, football track and perhaps oth-
crs, may be held.
With Harvard discussing the enlarge
ment OF the stadium and Yale talking
OF increasing the capacity Of the bowl
to $4,000. with the colleges evrywhere
planning great stadiums, the cities arc 4
strangely lacking In vision In that they
fail to gee the necessity OF huge places :
in which 10 hold the great sport spec
outside the Yale bowl there 10 not =
place in America. excepting the huge
natural ampitheatre in Wade Park,
Cleveland which will accommodate tha
crowds that desire to witness the Dig
spertacles. -
The applications for tickets indicate.
that more than quarter OF m.!lion
persons wanted 70 see the contest De,
Hayes. whose activities made the orr
ranFements for the annual clash Of the
service teams better this fall than they
over were before says that the number
Of requests received by Army alone were
for nearly 10000 seats Joe ORrien.
rocretary. or past secretary OF the"
Giants. says that more than 100000 re-
quests ware sent to the club. which had .
Navy must have received quite as many. .
There were perhaps $4,000 persons Ia .
The Polo grounds counting passes and
cn'nioyrs. and the place was packed.
The requests for Yale-Princeton and
Harvard games indicate that more than
2c0. 900 ncrsons desired to SEQ the games.
The gr""t majority OF whom were unable
Ia get tickets.
NJ" Yrrl- could do would be to erect q
stadium to seat more than 100000 per-
sons in which such shows as Army
NAVY. Olympic contests and such thtnts
could he stared. It would be tremend-
u"S th'nC for any city.
Oddly enough considered from an en-
r!rno-ing standnoint. such a stadium
= V0rl7 I've easily and comparatively
"h"o~l'' built at half dozen places on
Ma nhaftan island and in spots which
now re considered not valuable az coma
pared with surrounding property. -~-
The-e are at Ieast'three places on the
Hudson river side OF the island where
r"'u''"' amphitheatres exist. and at
,""0' our on III" Harlem side. The great
I,lt'"rs Of tie upper part Of the city
"nrld he followed out and terraced and
the remainder Of the structure erected
to correspond and the cost would bs
compa lively low 49,.
| A Coliseum for New York.
Some man OF great wealth who wants
to make his nar!e as famous as that or
Old Jim Coliseum, who built that bowi5
ut Rome and AIMED Il for himself. has
the opportunity Of lifetime. But ~
municiral project such stadium In
New York would be 4 big moneymaker.,
Imagine staging a chess match between
La skier and Capa blanca In q stadium
seating 100000.
The United States prides itself large
Is upon its craftsmanship and Its love
OF sports. its organization and ITS clean
illness. Yet what have We to govern
spot beyond the 4. A. u. the various
college conferences and few politi-
caIly dictated commissions and the half
discredited form OF organized baseball
government?
compare this with the Argentine. =
country which we rather Ignore In a
sporting standpoint. The Argentine Is
miles ahead OF US in control and In or
ganization OF sports Its Confederation
OF Sports. now almost a year old. has
control Of all sport. has power to pun
ish. to suspend. to dictate to all sports
and to regulate ma tches.
! 4 federal body Of similar plan would
DO em.nently possible In thfs country.
. (Copyright, 1921. The New York Even.
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