HUGE GROUND

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 112, 14 May 1938, Page 23

HUGE GROUND

ARGENTINE PROJECT "Hold your breath!" says the "Sonday Chronicle." "There's a 200,000 football ground on the way. The experts in England say a ground of the 150,000 grade is football's limit ... but all the experts aren't in the British Isles . . . some are in Argentina. They had an international match down there between Buenos Aires and Brazil and 90,000 South Americans were inside the enclosure . . . with another 90,000 besieging the entrances." The Argentine doesn't believe 150,000 to be the limit, and has spent 312,500 dollars as a preliminary outlay on this 200,000 enclosure, which will be available for the first match, although not complete, in September. ' It is being' constructed by the conversion of a racecourse and will be the home of the River Plate F.C. Argentine champions, a club with a little matter of 38,000 members. "We are football, mad out there," said a gentleman from the Argentine, "and we owe much of it to Britain, which sowed the seeds. In fact, foot- ! ball has been playsd there since 1842, [and at one time the champion team for ten years—called Alumni —consisted of 10 Browns and probably another 'Englishman. It's different now. Everyone plays football. You can see it, almost, at each street corner."