The Washington times., 1937-11-29
Let's Build a Stadium

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X1OU who have seen Army-Navy football game
will never forget the thrill of watching the cadets
and midshpmen swing on the field, the color and
of the crowds the cheers of the service sections, the
game itself.
Why can't these Army-Navy games be played in
Washington, the home of the Army and the Navy? We
think they can
All it takes is place to play them And there is
answer to that
We need stadium big enough to hold the crowds.
u.,,D No difficulty about getting the
game after that. All right, here's
Cost OF STADIUM how:
Let's build one
Let's make it big enough to hold not only the 100000
cheering men and women who filled the stands in Phila
delphia Saturday, but 1250 900!
Its costa An estimated $3O0OOOO. fraction of the
cost of one of the Federal department buildings
Unlike the Government buildings it would be made
to pay for itself on selfliquidatng basis. One hun
dred and twenty-five thousand persons at four dollars
head equal half million dollars in cold cash. Deduct
maintenance and operating COSTS interest the invest
men and all other charges and you have something
100000 left the net receipts of single ArmyNavy
game.
Let's be generous and give the Army and Navy
athletic associations whatever they want in the way
of split in the gate receipts-as much or
than they get from Philadelphia. Then let's put the
rest of it in sinking fund to pay for the stadium.
Let's bring the Olympic games to Washington the
next time they to America.
Let's see. an Army-Notre Dame game played here
instead of in New York.
r.J~, U, Let's see the Navy play
Yale Princeton or Harvard
Could Be Obtained ho~o
Let's see world series played here-one game on
neutral ground-even if the Senators can't be in on It'll
If a real stadium built, the space under the
grandstands could be used for any number of
There would be room for a National Guard Armory so
badly needed in Washington. 1t could be used for the
inaugural ball. There is place big enough to ae-
commodate these colorful affairs
We could have National Exposition Show the
thousands of tourists that visit here the many products
of this vast nation like they do annually along the lake
front in Canada.
And could it for ice skating That delightful
winter sport that is crowded out with couple of
hundred skaters iammed onto the Rejecting Pool
And how about using it for gigantic flower show7
Why should New York and Baltimore get the National
floor show year The sponsors of the show wanted
it to come to Washington last year. They forced to
60 to Baltimore because had no place for it,
Like the Hollywood Bowl, the stadium could be used
for summer dramatcs or for series of summer band
concerts by our topnotch service bands.
It could be used for national automobile show. Or
for horse show, where the international riders could
appear at their BEST instead of being shunted from one
place to another as they were this fall
If you stop to think Of it. there just isn't any limit to
the variety the size of athletic and other attractions
which would come to the National Capitalize Washing
ton-if we had place for them
There are several ways it could be built.
The Federal Government could build it as public
project.
A corporation could be formed stock subscribed and
the stadium built private project
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