AMSTERDAM STADIUM
■i ... ■ i ■ 610ST COMPLETE IH WORLD FORTY ACRES IN EXTENT. Press Association —By Telegraph- Copyright. LONDON, January 13. (Received January 14, at 11.25 a.m.) Covering forty acres, served by special tram lines, and equipped with an eighty-eight-acre car park, accommodating 4,000 automobiles, the new Olympic Stadium at Amsterdam will bo the most complete in the world. The main stadium is concrete and brick, and accommodates 40,000 people, half of these seated. The dimensions arc 285yds by 185yds. It contains a football ground and a running track. Six hundred seats are reserved for journalists. There are also telegraph rooms and forty-five phono cabinets. The Royal and official boxes are in the centre of the ground. In addition to the stadium there are a swimming stadium, a fencing pavilion, a cricket ground, thirteen tennis courts, an art gallery, and gardens. The buildings are surmounted by a Marathon tower 150 ft high, from which will issue a permanent smoke column during the progress of the games.
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Evening Star, Issue 19456, 14 January 1927, Page 4
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165AMSTERDAM STADIUM Evening Star, Issue 19456, 14 January 1927, Page 4
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