Evening star., 1923-11-07

pic standards. will have a separate
stadium and each stadium will have
it's auxiliary training grounds. The
swimming pool Is the one exception.
A track and field grounds will be
built adjoining the stadium in which
| the official Olympic competitions will
take place This training ground will
be exactly like the official arena. so
that no athlete will be handicapped
by training on ground foreign to that
on which he will have to compete
The jumping pits will be in the same
position in the trial stadium as in
the official one, and even the pole
vaulting pits will be located in a
position which exactly comedies with
the official ones. The running track
Will be duplicate Of the official one.
The tennis stadium in which all the
official finals of the Olympics will
be played Is removed from the track
and field arena and will have four
stands for spectators. The stands
will completely inclose the one offI-
ciaI court. although an additional one
may be built For the tennis play
ers four additional courts have been
constructed on a plot Of ground out
side the official tennis stadium. It
IS on these courts that the practice
Sessions will be held the official one
being reserved for actual Olympic
play. The practice courts will be
exact duplicates of the Olympic court,
and all during the games the con-
dltlons OF all the courts will be kept
as near the same as is possible.
Plans for Foot Ball.
Ihe tennis stadium, with it's four
practice courts. will lie between the
offfcial foot ball field and the three
practice foot ball fields. The official
neld viii have stand on either side
cunning nth from one end line to the
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open The stands which parallel the
sides will be covered while those at
the ends, in case any are built there.
VIII be open. 1t Is the plan of the
International Olympic committee to
build stands at the end lines only in
case they are required.
Near the foot BAH field will be the
swimming pool. This will be COM
pietely surrounded with stands under
shoWers Tnlen the sna eoimpeti.ors inpeta Will md
towers win be built for the diving
opposite sides of the pool and each
will be equipped with an officials'
competitions will be announced.
While the officials plan to erect
stands to the extent required at most
OF the stadiums. the seating accom-
modations for the track and field
events have been planned to an exact
total and seats will be erected ac-
cordingiy. The present arrangements
call for seats for $4,000 persons. The
main stands will parallel the sides of
the running track. while the bleach
ers will be at both ends of the track
so that the entire field will be closed
by stands. Only the stands along the
sides will be covered. and these will
have capacity of $4,000 each. The
secondary reserved section will ac-
commodate 10000 and the bleachers
will seat 10000. No prices have been
named because the division Of seats
may be changed. 1t has been def
nitely decided to have seats for 60, 600
persons, but the number in the
bleachers will probably be increased,
while the main reserved section will
be diminished.
At one end of the field viii be the
judges tower. on ths right Of which
large board. and to the left of the
stand will be the result board on
which, the names. places and times
of the leading competitions will be
announced. The pole vault will be
held at the end farthest from the
judges stand. while the broad jump
will be staged along the side lines
The high jump will be held at the
end nearest the officials stand The
distance from one end of the track
to the other. taken straight down the
center of the field, will be 200 meters.
and the width from side to side will
be 80 meters. The surface Of the
track will be 8h meters wide at all
points.
Entrance and egress will be easy.
With every seat in the stadium filled.
the $4,000 persons can reach the street
in less than a minute. Every seat Is