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Show I SPEND MILLIONS FOR I LARGE SPORT ARENAS ! I Much Money Being Spent in New '; York by Promoters. 4H 3 rent Interest Being Displayed In H Various Branches of Athletics Sine Cloce of War Tex Rlckard :l Leases Garden. - LH More than $-1,000,000 has been In 'E vested this year In Now York city In ';H buildings and arenas 1n bo used ex- H diislvely for sporting features. This - HI Is Just ono more Illustration of tho E great Interest In nil branches of eporta 'HI since tho close of the war. An entire- H ly new Held has been opened for tho H promotion of sports. The lly-by-ulght ' 'E promoter has been shunted on tho IJD siding and lu his place wo liavo real ,HJ buslm-RS operators, organizing to cop- 'H duct nttuiteur and professional sport H Ing fixtures on an elaborate scale. HJ The New York Volodrotno company H stnrtcd this movement for clean and H attractive competition with an Invest- 'HJ meiit of SiV).()00 In tho modern stadl- HJ urn which Is now being erected at , H Two Hundred nnd Twenty Fifth street 'M Tex Rlckard. H nnd Hrondwny. Tlio hugo stnicture H with tiers of seats banked around 11 HJ six-lap board bicycle track will nc- HJ couunndato moro than US.OOO pcopla H comfortably. Tho enclosure will In- H elude 11 tiKslern athletic Held. Thin iBJ means national A. A. U. fixtures and H Interscholastlc chnmplonshlpB will H again be decided In New York. The M stadium will be In use the year round. HJ It Is an Ideal place for outdoor box- H Ing In the spring, summer and fall and HJ for Ice skating during tho cold 'H weather. H Soon after the New York Velodromo H company wns orgaulr.ed came the Au- B dulion Athletic club, which has nc- H quired title to a plot of ground at H Lenox avenue and Ono Hundred nnd H Forty-llfth street. This structure when H completed will represent an expendl- ' Hire of $100,000. The lease that Tex H Hlckard has acipilrcd on Madison H Siiuare Garden represents nn Invest- HJ incut of about $,'1,000,000, and now H Hlckard will spend several hundred H thousand dollars In Improvements so- H that the big amphitheater can bo used H for all branches of sports during tho -,H Indoor season, H |