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Show ! SULLIVAX PLAXS BIG ! STADIUM FOR GOTHAM I Tribune Special Sporting ServSc. NEW YORK, Dec. 12. A hugo stadium sta-dium of white marble in New York City, seating 50.000 or 00,000 persons, surrounding a field where the youth of j tho nation can moot in bnsobull, track and field contests and all other brnuchos j of athletic sports, is the hope of President Presi-dent James E. Sullivan of tne Amateur Athletic union. That Sullivan has faith in his suggestion sug-gestion and that he boliovo.n such a stn- I diuni soon will bo built in or licar New York citj. was shown bv the man- J ner in which ho talked of tho schomo : the other day. ' ' Wli3' not have n great stadium I here?" said Sullivan. "Now York expended ex-pended seven or eight million dollar for the Speedway, and all this was fpr tho benefit of a" few owner of. light harness horses. The poqfllo themselves 1 roeeive no benefit from Tho Speedway, : but they would be benefited by the j building of a great alhletic arena whcr. j tho youth of the city could engage in : healthful open-air pastime. Turn tho I schoolboys and the boys of the streets 1 loose ou such a field, "under competent I instructors, and note tho improvement j in them. In this arena the world's 1 championship baseball gpmcs might be plaj'od, and every four years the best I athjotcs in tho world could moot in an ' American Olympiad. Muke the stadium I n model of beauty and modern arelii- I tccture and a monument for future, generations." Mr. Sullivan thinks tho linio is ri"e for tho project. It would cost not lcsJ than ?1, 000,000. |