Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1907-06-09 | Page 20 | Stadium Will Seat over 70,000

STADIUM WILL SEAT OVER Olympian Games This Year in London Promises Some Great Sport London June 8 Satisfactory progress is being made on the stadium for the Olympian games to be held he d here in 1908 1008 The capacity of the th stadium will be about oooo and it will contain all conveniences for the competitors The contests will include track and field athletics cycling fencing swimming lawn tennis archery archers gymnastics wrestling and display of ol military riding In addition about the th beginning of ot April a week of at contests c in winter games gaines will also be held in the stadium These will Include football both Rugby and association lacrosse and hockey The center of the stadium will be an arena of turf of oval shape having a axis rods of feet and a short axis of feet teet Round this arena will be built two tracks the Inner for tor running feet teet broad with three laps to the mile mUe and the outer for tor cycling with a breadth of feet teet and two and three quarter laps to the mile Running along one side of ot the aren will be a huge swimming bath me meters meters meters In length with a deep space pace I twelve feet In the middle for tor high diving and anil water polo The tracks and swimming bath are arc being constructed under the su BU supervision supervision of the th Amateur Athletic asso association association elation the Amateur Swimming association association association tion and the National Cyclists union re respectively respectively 0 Dimensions of ot the stadium are of turf 22 yards yard meters length of turf exclusive of lawn tennis t courts yards LT meters width of ot turf yards 91 meters width of ot turf ex cx exclusive exclusIve elusive of the swimming pond eighty three yards meters run running fling ning track three laps to one mile feet leet wide seven and meters cycling tracK two and three quarter laps to one mile feet wide ten and five tive tenths meters swim swimming swimming swimming ming pond meters long fifty feet teet wide depth four tour feet at each end twelve feet teet in middle