The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-06-17
MEXICO READY
FOR THE BULLS
almost Every Sport But
Baseball Planned For
SIS 900 900 Mexican
Playground
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BY THEODORE A. EDIcER

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AP Newsfeotures
MEXICO CITY.The worlds
largest bullring, first unit of a
ISIS, 900 playground being con-
Estructed in Mexico City, stands
ready for the bulls.
The sports city,, comprising 10
square blocks, will offer facilities
for football, swimming, jai-alai,
boxing, wrestling, basketball,
track Ice hockey, bowling, ten
mis- and other games besides bull
fighting. International sports will
be stressed.
Baseball. one of Mexico's most
popular sports. is not included
in the layout. Jorge PasqueL
Mexican League president. has
acquired tract where he plans
to build a baseball city. in
Guiding stadium seating $4,000
with clubrooms for players and
other buildings.
The matadors' arena in the
sports city" has $4,000 seats, sew
Ieral thousand more than the ia
nous bull plazas of Madrid and
Barcelona. Its costs is placed at
So, 900, 900.
Next to be completed will be a
football bowl seating 10000 spec
tators. Leading English, Spanish,
Russian and Argentine soccer
teams are to be invited. The sta
dunn, while intended primarily
for soccer, Mexico's No. / COM
petitive sport, can also be used
for American style pigskin play
"a Chile bowl game perhaps?),
and for track and field events. 1t
costs $2,4O0,000.
Matadors will work IS feet
below street level and football
games will be played in 81
foot hole. Earth has been hol-
lowed out to accommodate the
huge bowls. and seats are along
the slopes.
BY late spring a fronton hall
seating 1000 is to be completed.
Here the Basque ball game often
called jai-alai will be played. In
this game the players catch the
ball in long, hand shaped,
wicker basket, throwing it against
the wall in the same movement,
while spectators bet.
BY early fall, boxing arena
accommodating $4,000 fans and
Mexico's first ice hockey hall,
seating $500, are to be ready.
Ice shows, something never be-
fore seen here, will be brought to
inaugurate the hockey palace.
Leading US. and Canadian teams
may come for exhibition matches,
then trainers from north of the
border will teach Mexicans the
game.
Planned, but not yet started, is
la giant swimming pool with ma
chine made waves and lined by
an artificial beach to make inland
|splashers dream they are at AGA
pulco or Vera Cruz. The layout
will be 100-acre affair. A club
with accommodations for $4,000
dues-paying members will be
formed.
I'VE have spent 100000
pesos tS3.400. 0o0) already on the
sports city. and plan to delay
some of the projects until we
start receiving an income" says
Carlos SaYden. general mana
ger.
Work on the bullring, named
'Maximino Avila Camacho," in
honor of the Mexican presidents
late brother, has been slowed be-
cause the government has the
bullfight monopoly. The huge
blood-and-sand bowl, completed
except for final trimmings, stands
idle.
Neguib Simon, owner of the
sports city, has agreed to buy the
existing bullfight company, and a
$4,5O0,000 price was agreed upon
last October. Somewhere down
the political line, however, the
deal fizzled. Simon still hopes to
make a deal.