BIG GATE RECEIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 69, 19 September 1932, Page 13

BIG GATE RECEIPTS

TWO MILLION DOLLARS

OLYMPIC SPORTING WHIRL

-It'is estimated that the spectacular"': sporting whirl of sixteen days and nights provided by the Olympic Gamejs at Los Angeles attracted a total paid" attendance of a million, and the gate receipts were estimated- at about two: ■ million dollars. On his return :yestef* I day Mr. P. N. Rundle, manaiger of'ffiefl •New Zealand team,' said that notwitfistanding tho wonderful and costly: organisation the Games had shqwn-a jjrofit, and the American authorities had been able to hand back the one million, dollars voted by the State'-jof California. ' . ' • 'V; '•':

The- record-smashing track and.field events accounted for the bulk of .the figures. Estimates were that 475,000 cash admittances were accommodated in the big Olympic stadium in eight exciting days. Altogether day and night, over the stretch of two weeks, more than .600,000 passed through the main stadium's turnstiles.

1 Rowing attracted 100,000 to the Marine Stadium at Long Beach,.while the 'aggregate attendance at the swimming championships was 80,000. Mr. Bundle said that the Americans had set a very high standard of. organisation and management for future Olympic Games; The German authorities apparently were fully conscious of that fact. Tho next Games, to be held in 1936, had been allotted to Berlin, and when the German team left Los Angeles they left behind one of their officials to study the methods adopted by the American Olympic Committee in conducting tie Tenth Olympic Games.