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(Mi 7® >® Jlffli - = » BWi »O ' hTH Ml —7;^—M 1 ' I • '-"^lV -y ■ ■ ■“ / ’szj 01 j ■ I .<- W?IS |t X L£ . n _ M (-tsJL •U ' No More Bouts Allowed Over Garages and Gasoline Tanks CHIEF CUMMINGS FINDS fiATE CITY CLUB FIRE TRAP I-w IRE ' 'HIEF W R.CIMMIXGS ? has just issued orders that either the Gate City "Athletic club" or the two garages that oc cupy the same building must va cate before next Tuesday, when there is a boxing show carded. He finds that the building with ga rages on the ground floor and a fight club above classifies under "fire trap." Acting under orders - of Chief Cummings. Eire Inspector Henry Oattis investigated the situation, and has reported that it is very much against the city ordinances to allow the fight club to hold forth with gallons of gasoline tn the building * Os course the garages can move and then it may be O K for the fight club to remain. Rut the own er of the building hardly figures it out this way Mr Oattis said today that when th* fight club started business there were no garages below W hat are now - garages were simply show, rooms for automobiles. Rut since then the automobile people have installed a repair shop and deal in gasoline Fire Escape a Joke. Wherebv from the fight club end, th» building is nothing but a fire trap The "athletic chib" has been doing business with but two nar row exits and a frame excuse of a fire escape Beneath It Is a tank with gallons and gallons of gasoline One of the stairways practically encircles this tank. A spark from a cigar or cigarette, if it ever fell into this basin, would ignite the powerful and flammable fluid and it would take just about ten minutes fqr the building to he clean swept by fire One of the stairways is straight, but the other has a right angle turn. It i- this one that winds around the gasoline tank. The steps of.the stairway are less than three feet wide and therefore It would he 'impossible fnr over two persons to descend at a time. ‘ The fire escape ts a joke. If 25 persons ever tried to get down ft al one time it would crumple up like so much sawdust. This alleged fire escape runs down to a platform, fulls fifteen feet from the ground. And. to cap the climax, a person leaping from this fire escape would have to jump into a hole, from Chew DRUMMOND ■F* Tasies good goes! ■ farther. llaH inc I ■usual clipw is pleniyl My l H's Rood* DRUMMONDI NATIIOAL IFAf ■ cmfwing TOBACCO ■ a«. g S u 5 —c S ? < a •»> o hH 4) 5m s 4 UM •” 35 TX.•. S;■ LU ~> £ „£ -j jy s =s£t“<g ,C 3 2 tt^ C SISCO5 IS CO H“ ° -* r °j= _ 5 lZj O> V eo “c Z > a“• g i-:yi*i 2 ’ill- S * ® S •» 3 SS? e» t>-vv& » w hlch he could never get out unless he rei eived aid. At present the platform at the end of the fire escape is covered with empty barrels What a fine chance a man would have trying to save himself by this exit! Just about as much as though he fell from an airship lO.OOn feet up. Also, the stairs, if they could possibly be w Ide enough to let a fire-stricken crowd out in time, bring right up at the gasoline tank. So to leave the club rooms above by the stairs would only bring the crowd right into the very heart and pit of I he flames. I'baseballl Diamond News and Gossip President Comiskey now has a mechani cal device to spread canvas over his ball park and l > take it oft again • • • <-barley Frank may get BU| tynlwy and George Stcne from Portland, Oreg, though wl.at he nfnts with them if they arc not good enough for Portland is hard ’deiermim. » • ♦ Folks are still poking fun at Hal Chase s sacrifice killer ’ The play is supposed tn be made as follows With runners on first and second, tho hatter bunte The first baseman plays wax in. grabs the hall and snaps it to third It is said to be a fine play, except that nobody is ever put nut nn it. • • • Heinie Tietz gave up his coaching du ties with the Reds long enough tn scout n bit through the South (> l>av is look ing for more pitchers from the South, preferable another Renton * • • Bill Phelnn Is author of the statement that Joe McGlnnity is awfully good to hfs folks Most of his family work at the New ark ball yard," says Rill One brother Is assistant manager, another Is secre tary. a nephew Is on Ihe main gate, sev eral first cousins are ushers and park po licemen. Joe’s second cousins help the ground-keeper, and one tad. who claims to be a distant relative, has been given a iob manicuring the street in front of the ball park" • • • The Rocky Mountain league xxil be luckv to last until July 4 In fact, it is wab bling so violently now that every bod x- is trying to get from under Ball.i hatted outside the Brooklyn park will not be gond for free admission, a.s I lias been the time-honored custom, i President Ehhets says he will prosecute • every box and man who tries to make I awa\ with one of his baseballs • • • We note in the I’nited States league s department of a Pittsburg paper the news that Ed Goes goes. So long. Ed. • • • Empire Spencer, in a recent Tekin- Kankakee game, waxed a player "out” sn vigorously that he dislocated his arm. ■ • » Kid Elberfeld, who put up such a bluff i about getting “IHOO a week or nothing | from t’hattaanooga. has quit with Mil waukee Hr couldn’t get in shape and i apparent!' his arm Is dead. His nerve atone remait s intact • • » Bob Harmon is ineffective this year and the theorx of Bresnahan as to the cause is that Harmon doesn’t use his fast ball often enough. Too many curves have ruined h’s record Ed Konev is putting up an awful xell because the fences at the Polo grounds are painted yellow He claims he. can t «ep a thrown ball until it gets right to him i The Cards have a new pitcher. Roland Howell, from Baton Rouge college His I shoulders are said to he broader than | Harmon which is uncanny broad ■ tieorge Stovall . has been appointed I manager of the Browns »o succeed Bobby ; Mallace. - -•ax? I. c Paris “We con 1 gratulate them both Pittsburg alleges to hear a rumor that Tommy l,ea«h may soon succeed Frank Cb uirr - manager of rhe Cubs It is quite like!'- ♦bat Chance is about read' to r» - ign Lelivelt leads ’he International league in batting with 405 Bitt Zimmerman. ex-<’racker with Newark, has slumped flown to 275 • • • Baltimore has taken on Pixie Walket and is negotiating for Frank Smith, of Cin< mnati. • • • Boh Gantt. Southern • nllege pitcher with Baltimore, who has been out of the game for awhile with a ore elbow, han rejoined his club. • • • BroolJvn has decided to let out »’y Barger He will probably go to Cincin nati for Gaspar • • • The Highlanders once paid I Callahan S2OO to g'» out an<l look over Larry T'oxle Callahan went, looked and wired Slow, tan'i field cant ba’ " \ a tip it w.r a great *2OO worth Hoyle couldn't hr bought from the Giants now for a fortune FHE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. FRIDAY, JTNE 7. 1912 A few months ago Boston city fathers closed up the big boxing Club in the Hub because they- held bouts in the same building with a garage. The club had » bona fide membership, the elite and richest of Cape Cod’s society being honorary officers, yet this place was closed simply because a garage was In the same building Chief Cummings' move is un doubtedly a wise one. The boxing game in the state, and probably all over the country, would get a de cidedly black nye if fire ever broke out at the Gate City "Athletic club," for the fans l would have no chance of escaping BOXING Late News and Views V K O. Brown's manager is In receipt of an offer from Promoter Tom OT’a.v for Knockout to fight twenty rounds with Willie Richie on the coast June 29. • • • Manager Billy Gibson, of the Garden A New York, plans to hold a popular price boxing show every Monday, giving local hoys a chance in the hopes of de veloping a headliner fnr the winter Jake Abel is training hard for his ten round fight with Joe Thomas in New Or leans next Monday night Pittsburg boxing tins are in an uproar because Ad Wolgast failed to carrv out his scheduled six-round bout with Phil Brock Johnnie freely and Young Herman will box tn Indianapolis June 14 • • • Reports from Australia say Hugh Mc- Intosh, who has been promoting matches In Flurope for some time, will come to America anil build one of the largest and most up-to-date boxing stadiums in this countrv. • • • Harry Donahue and Steve Ketchel will box ten rounds In Peoria June 17. Soldier Elder and Charley Miller went ten rounds to a draw in San Erancisco a few night sago. Elder is the moving pic ture man who expressed his desire for a match with Jack Johnson • • • It will he but a short time before Abe Attell will quit training and leave Billy Nolan’s ranch for San Francisco, where he will probablv try himself out by box ing several third raters ... Phil Harrison will box an unknown at Janesville the last of this month Harri son has been winning steadily and big things are expected of him. ■ * • Because he is built just a little too heavy for a lightweight It is probable that Packey McFarland will go through, his pugilistic career without ever being a champ If Packer was as strong at 133 as ne is at 138 pounds ringside he would be undisputed champ Walter Brooks is scheduled to meet Mike Malta in New York tomorrow night \d Wolgast will start training In one week for his July match with Mexican loe Rivers Adolph says he will engage in no more short bouts before he meets Rivers • • • Jimmy lohnson. <’wen Moran's man ager. should have been a press agent in stead of a manager When listening to Johnson spring some ot Moran's historv one would think the Britain vv"as»undis puted champion of the world YANKEE ATHLETES MAY PERFORM IN FRANCE PARIS, June 7.—Feeling certain that the American team of athletes will car ry off the honors at the coming Olympit games at Stockholm, a movement was set on foot here today to have them (Ifmaln in Europe for a short time to give exhibitions. Mready Americans in France are ar ranging dates for a monster meeting in Paris, when the Americans wil] be given a chance tn meet the he t of the French athletes soon after the Olytnpiv games • mcfarland batters his MAN UP AND COPS STEP IN MTSKEGON Mh'H . June 7. Pack ev MacFarlapd practically knocked out Frank Brennan, who claims the welter weight championship of Canada, In the fourth round of a scheduled ten-round bout here. Ma< Farland took matters eaev in the first three rounds, but went after Bren nan in the fourth, knocking him down tw ice the set ond time for the count of nine Before MacFarland could get In tin finishing blow thf police stopped the fight. GREAT FIELD OF OLYMPIC CANDIDATES IN TRYOUTS BOSTON, June 7. —The greatest ag gregation of athletes that ever met up on an athletic field will strip for action in the Harvard stadium tomorrow aft ernoon for the Eastern Olympic try outs. The Individual entry list totals ISB of the foremost exponents of speed, endurance and strength of the East, These runners, jumpers and weight throwers will compete in eighteen events, and although the games start promptly at 2 o’clock, it probably vyill take at least four hours to decide win ners in all of the events, although the try-out committee says the last compe tition will he over at 6 o'clock. All the races will be over courses measured by the metric system. The jumps and the weight events, however, will he measured in feet and inches, and all the timing will be by minutes, sec onds and fifths. So many star athletes have entered for the 400 800 and 1.550-meter runs that the committee has decided to have two sets of timers. One group will be stationed at the finish of the sched uled runs, while the second set will take the 11 twos at the regular American distance. LAJOIE WALLOPS FORD’S “WASTE BALLS” FOR HITS ''LEVELAND. June ".—That Larry Lajoie is still a dangerous hitter was never demonstrated more vividly than yesterday when he made a single and a double hitting 'waste balls.” The brainy Russ Ford was working for .the Y’anke against the Naps and was’ being hit hard. In an effort to save himself he twice tried to xvalk Lajoie. The big Frenchman refused to take bases on balls, however. Twice he stepped the plate and lammed Into high ones for safe hits. ROWAN. FORMER CRACKER, GOES TO DENVER CLUB Pitcher Jack Rowan, former Crack er, who has been up to the big leagues and hack again about as often as any living man, was turned over yesterday by Louisville to Denver and seems to be out of the big show for good. Rowan was turned over to Louisville by the Cubs, who got him from Cincin nati. He was once the property of De troit, and It was from the Tigers that the Atlanta club secured him. LEFTY RUSSELL HERE: COLEMAN IS MISSING , “Lefty" Russell is here. Twelve thousand dollars worth of good southpaw-, attached to an elongat ed young twirler. pulled in yesterday and reported at the ball park this morning. Third Baseman Coleman is not with us yet. At baseball headquarters they Insist that he is not lost—merely mis placed, as it were. They don't know where he is and the New York club has lost .track of him. but he isn't lost. WOLGAST OFFERED $50,000 FOR FIVE GOTHAM FIGHTS NEW YORK. June 7.—Fifty thousand dollars has been offered to Lightweight Champion Yd Wolgast if he will con sent to meet five lightweights to be picked by Manager William Gibson of the Garden Athletic club at Madison Square Garden. Wolgast is now on his way to the Pacific coast to begin training for his bout with Joe Rivers on July 4. and has no definite answer, WOLGAST, NOT ATTELL, WILL MEET J. RIVERS LOS ANGELES. June 7—" Ad Wol gast will be in the ring July 4 to fight his own battle with Joe Rivers." said Manager Tom McCarey, of the Corona Athletic club, when asked as to the truthfulness of a report that Abe At tell was to be substituted for Wolgast. The rumor had it that Wolgast was in no condition to fight. JAPANESE GRAPPLER WINS 133-LB. WRESTLING TITLE TOLEDO. OHIO, June 7. A Japa | nese Is now the lightweight wrestling champion of the "world as a result of Matsuda's victory over Johnny Rilliter here last night. The Japanese won two straight falls on toe holds. The first fall came in 61 minutes and the second In twelve minutes. LUMLEY ON TOBOGGAN BINGHAMTON. N V.. June 7.—Har ry Lumley, former manager of the Brooklyn National league team, todav was unconditionally released as man ager of the Ringhamton team in the New York State league. Lack of a Leisure Class Keeps Atlanta Back in Amateur Sports HOPE OF CITY IS IN KID ATHLETES OF TODAY By Percy H. Whiting, IF Atlanta had a leisure class, it would lead the South at amateur sports. It is the fact that everybody in Atlanta is working for a living that accounts for the commercial su premacy- and the athletic subordi nacy (a fine word —I just found it) of the Gate City. Atlanta has never had but one golfer who could win a champion ship— F. G. Byrd. Tt now has three others—George W. Adair, W. R. Tlchenor and H. G. Scott —who can hold their own with the best. Compare this with New Orleans. That burg has won five out of the last ten Southern golf champion ships. Tt has two men out of four in the semi-finals being played now at Chattanooga. Five years out of the last eleven. New Orleans players have won the low score medal. Four out of the last seven team matches have been w-on by New Orleans golfers. Yet it is doubtful if New Or leans, for all its size, has half as many golfers-as Atlanta, and al though it has a brace of courses, the two of them rolled together do not even faintly- compare with the East Lake course of the Atlanta Athletic club. What New Orleans has. how ever is a leisure class. Its play ers have more time for golf than do those of.Atlanta. Nelson Whit ney. twice champion and now- in the semi-finals of the present tour nament, is a young man of immense means, who doesn't have to do any thing but golf unless he wants to Leigh Carroll, another champion from New Orleans. Is a banker of large means, and plays Just when ever he wants to. as his business is not allowed to interfere. When Lawrence Eustis won his three low score medals in a row he was doing nothing but play golf. As soon as he went into bus- L Sumar ~~ Information ■ Ask Sumar is an American 'W wr weave. It is a Muse order--for / a cloth similar to the English iKHBb tB Fresco---made in our oxvn country 3B at much less cost. PH We found the weaver, who A 0 xvas at once enthusiastic about the * work of bringing it to perfection. SUMAR is made of pure I worsted yarn, xvhich commends it for high-grade tailoring. It is L apparently closely woven---tho VWk very elastic to admit of the free H circulation of air. I Sumar is the successful summer fabric ' for suits. <pi Tan. gray, brown or blue CTICZ with silk thread decoration....... Geo. Muse Clothing Co, iness he went out of golf. The same was true of Albert Schwartz. Just after he w-on the. first champion ship he w-ent into business for him self and didn’t show up in a tour nament outside of New- Orleans for ten years. As soon as he left the leisure class he dropped back as a golfer. The older men of Atlanta, who are beginning to take it easy, haven't made enough progress in golf to be dangerous. The younger men are too busy to devote time to the game. The consequence is that the only Atlantan who has won a championship is a man In the sporting goods business, who can combine business and pleasure in playing golf. • • • zwONDITTONS exactly similar ob tain in tennis, with a slight va riation. Atlanta has had for many years tw-o players w-ho by- sheer natural ability were able to stay- at the top of the Southern heap, even if they didn't take time to play much. These two are Dr. Nat Thornton and Bryan M. Grant. These men have so much tennis in them that they can play a good game with little or no practice. Ts this hadn't been true. Atlanta w-ould not have been heard from In tennis championships, despite the fact that it has a few excellent players who can make it interest ing for the best in any tournament. There is small doubt but that if Dr. Thornton gave as much atten tion to tennis as do some of the country's great players, he would have ranked with the first five or six perhaps better Atlanta's tennis supremacy Is soon to be swept away—unless something is done. The famous Grant-Thornton team is playing less and less tennis; and (be it faintly whispered) is getting along in years. No new- players have yet shown who compare with them. For another thing, the Southern championship, which has bedn held for years In Atlanta, will go to New Orleans next July. Os course. It probably will come back to At lanta the following July. But At lanta's monopoly has been smash ed. Perhaps this will result in in creased interest. Perhaps it will serve to wake up Atlanta players. But anyhow, from now on Atlanta, will have to hustle for Its position in the Southern tennis world. • • • -pHE hope of Atlanta in golf and tennis lies with the younger generation. For years the blame for the slow development of golf and tennis lay with the Atlanta Athletic club. It did not encour age junior players. Now. it ts a sad fact that you can seldom make great tennis or golf players unless you “take 'em young." Walter Travis, it is true, learned golf well after he had at tained his majority, and a few players hive learned to perform with the racquet after they were grown Rut a good 99 per <’»nt of the star players in th» country learned as kids. Some youngsters who promise to be stars are coming along in At lanta now. The wonder of them all happens to be a girl. Miss Alexa Stirling, the greatest golfer of her age, male or female. In all the South. But there are a lot of boys, just ■getting into their teens, who have been handling golf clubs and tennis racquets since they were tots. Five or ten years from now they will he battling to uphold the honor and glory of Atlanta in sec tional and perhaps national events. In this younger generation win be many, perhaps, who will be in the leisure class —or, at least, in the semi-leisure class. For it will take several generations to work out of Atlantans that spirit of hustle that has made the city great in business and weak In amateur athletics.