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No More Bouts Allowed Over Garages and Gasoline Tanks
CHIEF CUMMINCS FINDS CATE CITY CLUB FIRE TRAP
Fire chief w. r. cummixrh
has just issued orders that
either the Gate City "Athletic
club" or the two garages that oc
o 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. Fire Inspector Henry
Oattls Investigated the situation,
and has reported that it Is very
much against the city ordinances
to allow the tight club to hold forth
with gallons of gasoline tn the
building.
Os course the garages can move
and then ft may be O. K. for the
fight club to remain. But the own
er of the building hardly figures it
out this way
Mr Gattis said today that when
the fight club started business
k there were no garages below. What
' .... ate now garages were simply show
rooms for automobiles. But since
!..i . then the automobile people have
'* )installed a repair shop and deal in
gasoline.
Fire Escape a Joke.
Whereby, from the fight club end,
the building is nothing but a fire
trap. The "athletic club" 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 ‘he powerful
and flammable fluid and it wot|Jd .
take just about ten minutes for the
building to be clean swept By fire.
One of the stairways is straight,
but the other has a right angle
turn. It is this one that winds
around the gasoline tank. The
Steps of (he stairway are less than
three feet wide and therefore it
would br Impossible for over two
per Sons to descend at a time.
The fire escape is a Joke. If C.‘>
persons ever tried to get down ft at
one time it would crumple up like
• so much sawdust This alleged fire
escape runs down to a pla'form.
fully 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
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diamonds for sale, 30 per
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1! 1-2 PEA jH RE: ST.
UPSTAIRS
Absolutely Private.
Opposite Fourth Nat
Bank Bidg
Both Phones F.S4
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W hich he could never get out unless
he received aid.
At present the platform at the
end of the tire 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 nn airship 10,000 feet up.
Also, the stairs. If they could
possibly be wide 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 the flames.
I BASEBALL I
i Diamond News and Gossip
i i
I President Comiskey now has a mechani-
I cal device to spread canvas over his ball
park and t > take it off again.
Charley Frank may get BUI Linlaay
i Hr.ti (jjeorge Sjcne from Portland, Orep..
j thougn wl.at he wants with them if thev
■aie not gno«l enough for PortFand Is hard
to determine.
I Folks are still poking fun at Hal Chase's
. sacrifice killer. .' The plav is supposed
;t o l>e made as follows: With runners on
■first and second, the batter bunts The
■first baseman plays wav in. grabs the
ball and snaps it to third. It is said to
be a tine plat, except that nobody is
ever put out on it.
. . .
Heinfe Pletz ga\c up his coaching du
i ties with the Beds long enough to scout
la hit through the South. O'Day is look
i mg for more pitchers from the South,
j preferably another Benton.
Bill Phelon is author of the statement
i that Joe McGinnity is awfullv good to his
folks.
i "Most i's his family work at the New
' ark ball yard, says Hill. "One brother
j is assistant manager, another serre-
• faM. a nephew Is on the main gate, sev
eial lirst cousins are ushers and park po
licemen, Joes second cousins help (he
j ground keeper, and one Ir ( i, who claims
to he a distant relative, has been given a
I job manicuring the street In front oft, e
ball park."
• • •
The Rocky Mountain league wtl be lucky
to last until July 4 Tn fact, it is wab
bling so violently now that everybody is
trying to get from under
Balls batted outside the Brooklyn park
will not l*e good tor free admission, as
I has been the time honored custom.
. President Ehbets says he will prosecute
every boy and man who tries to make
I away with one of his baseballs
J_• • •
We note in the United States league
[department of a Pittsburg paper the news
I that Ed Goes goes. So long, Ed.
| Umpire Spencer, in a recent Pekin
; Kankakee game, waved a player "oir" so
vigorously that he dislocated his arm
1 Kid Elberfeld, who put up such a bluff
i about getting *fioo a week or nothing"
t from Chattaanooga. has tpiit w ith Mil
I wftukee He couldn't get in shape and
apparent!'' bis arm is dead His nerve
alone remaii s intact.
• • •
Bob Harmon is ineffective tins year and
the theorx of Bresnahan as to the cause
is that Harmon doesn't use his fast ball
often enough. Teo many cur'es have
ruined bis record
Ed Konev is putting up an awful yell
because tne fences at the Polo grounds
are painted yello" He claims be can't
see a thrown hail until It gets right to
hirn.
• • •
The Cards have a new pitcher. Roland
Howell, from Baton Rouge college. His
I shoulders are said to be broader than
Harmon's, which is uncanny broad
-! “George Stovall has been appointed
I manager of the Browns to succeed Bobby
W’allaee," says 1. <’ Davis. “We c.on-
I gratulate them both.’
• ’ ’
Pittsburg alleges to hear a rumor that
j Tomm> Leach maj aeon succeed Frank
Chance ns manager of the Cubs. It is
quite likel.' that Chance is about ready
to resign.
■* • • •
l.elneit leads the International league
In hutting, with .405. Rill Zimmerman.
px-Cr«o ker w ith Newark, has .dumped
df"\n to 275.
• • •
Baltimore has taken on Dixie Walker
tnd is negotiating for Frank Smith, of
Cincinnati.
80l Gantt. Southern college pitcher
* with Baltimore, who has been out of the
I game for awhile with a sore elbow, has
rejoined his club
• • •
Brooklyn has to let out Cy
Bat ver He will probably go to Cincin
nati for Gaspar
■ • •
The Highlanders, once paid J. Callahan
•200 ■ ' go . n’ and look over l.arrv Doyle
Callahan went, looked and wired 'Slow,
can ' field can t bat Vs a tip it was a
great J2OO w orth Doyle eouldn t be
b‘ ,ght from th* Giants r. w for a fortune
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. FRIDAY. JUNE 7, 1912.
A few months ago Boston city
fpthers closed up the big boxing
club in the Hub because they held
bouts in the same building with a
garage. The club had a 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
dve)- 4he country, would get a de
cidedly bladk eye if fire ever broke
out at the Gate City "Athletic
club," for the fans 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 O'Day for
Knockout to fight twenty rounds with
V' iilie Richie on the coast .June 29.
• • •
Manager Billy Gibson, of the Garden
A New York, plans to hold a popular'
price boxl-ng show every Monday, giving
local boys a chance In the hopes of de«
veloping a headliner for the winter.
Jake Abel is training hard for his ten
rmind tight with Joe Thomas in New Or
leans next Monday night.
• • •
Pittsburg boxing fans are in an uproar
because Ad Wolgast failed to earry out
bis scheduled six-round bout with Phil
I Brock.
• • •
Johnnie t’reely and Young Herman will
box in Indianapolis June 14.
■ • •
Reports from Australia say Hugh Mc-
Intosh. who has been promoting matches
in Europe for some time, will come to
America ami build one of the largest and
most up-to-date boxing stadiums in this
country
at • «
Harrv Donahue and Steve Ketchel will
hex ten rounds in Peoria June 17.
* • •
Soldier Elder and Chariey Miller went
ten rounds to a diaw in San Franci-co a
few night sago. Elder is the moving pic
ture man who expiessed his desire for a
match with Jack Johnson.
It will be but a short time before Abe
Attell \vill quit training and leave Billv
Nolan s ranch for San Francisco, where
lie will probaldj try himself out by box
ing several third raters.
• • •
Phil Harrison will box an unknown at
Janesville the last of tills month. Harri
son has been winning steadily and hjg
things are expected of him.
Because he is built just a little too
heav\ for a lightweight it Is probable
that Parkey McFarland will g-> through
; h’s pugilistic career without ever being
a champ If T’aekey was as strong at
133 as he is at 13S pounds ringside he
would be undisputed champ.
Walter Brooks is scheduled to meet
Mike Malta in New York tomorrow night
Ad Wolgast will start training in one
week for his July match with Mexican
, J<>e Rivers. Adolph says lie will engage
b in no more short bouts before he meets
Rivers
! "■ • • •
Jimmy Johnson. Owen Moran’s man
, Hger, should have been a press agent tn
, stead of a manager. When listening to
, Johnson spring some of Moran s history
one would think the Britain was undis
puted champion of the world.
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YANKEE ATHLETES MAY
PERFORM IN FRANCE
i
i PARIS, June 7. Feeling certain that
1 the American team of athletes will car
ry off the honors at the comins .Olympic
1 games at Stockholm, a movement was
set on foot here today to have them
remain In Europe for a short time to
give exhibitions.
. , Alreadt Americans In France are ar
i : ranging dates for a monster meeting in
Paris, when the Americans will be
I given a chance to meet the best of the
I French athletes soon after the Olympic
’ ' g tmes.
McFarland batters his
MAN UP AND COPS STEP IN
MUSKEGON. Mil'll , June 7.—Paek
‘ ey MacFarland practically knocked out
' Frank Brennan, who claims the welter
weight championship of Canada, in the
fourth round of a scheduled ten-round
bout here.
MacFarland took matters easy in the
first three rounds, but went after Bren
' nan in the fourth, knocking him down
twice the second time for the count of
, nine. Before MacFarland could get in
>: the- finiahing blow thf police stopped
' the fight.
And. They All Went With Judge
GREAT FIELD OF OLYMPIC
CANDIDATES IN TRYOUTS
B<>STON. 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
188 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 will
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 be 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 be 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, SOO and 1,550-mCter runs,
that the committee has decided to have
two seis of timers. One group will be
stationed at the finish of the sched
uled runs, while the second set will
take the times at the regular American
distance.
LAJOIE WALLOPS FORD'S
“WASTE BALLS” FOR HITS
CLEVELAND, June 7.—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, Ffifd ' was'working
for the Yanks gkatost the Naps and'
was being hit Batd.‘" In'arf JAffort to
save himself he t.wiee 'triWl -to walk
Lajoie. The big Frenchman ’Refused to
take bases on Wills, however. Twice he
stepped across rhe -plate arid lammed
into high ones for safe lifts.
ROWAN. FORMER CRACKER.
GOES TO DENVER CLUB
Pitcher Jack Rowan, former Crack
er, who has been 'Hr So the-big'leagues
and back again tfboiit 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, whK.got him from Cincin
nati. He was once-the property of De
troit, and it was front" th(» 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 vet. 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.
ONE GAME TODAY PERHAPS:
ONE EARLY ONE TOMORROW
No double-header will be played to
day. unless Charley Frank insists on it.
which isn’t probable.
In case any baseball is possible but a
single game win be played. That will
be called at 4 o'clock. At noon baseball
headquarters couldn't tell for the life
of 'em whether there would be a game
or not.
Tomorrow but a single game will be
played and that will be called at 2:45.
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 As
: tel! was to be substituted for Wolgast.
The rumor had it that Wolgast was in
no condition to tight.
JAPANESE GRAPPLER WINS
133-LB. WRESTLING TITLE
TGI.EDO. OHIO, June'7,—A 'Japa-
I nese is now the lightweight w restling
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. Y., June 7.—Har
ry Lumley, former manager of the
Brooklyn National league team, today
was unconditionally released as man
ager of the Binghamton 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—l just found it)
of the Gate City.
Atlanta has never had but one
golfer who could win a champion
ship—F. G. Byrd. It ncuv has three
others W. Adair, W. R.
Tichenor and H. G. Scott—who can
hold their own with the best.
pompare this with New Orleans.
That burg has won five out of the
■ last ten Southern golf champion
ships. It 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 seven
team matches have been won by
• New Orleans golfers.
Yet it Is doubt fell'-if New Or
leans, for all its size, has half as
’ many golfers as Atlanta, and al
though it-has a brace of courses,
---th? 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 tn
the semi-finals of the present tour
nament, is a young yian 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-
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iness he went out of golf. The same
was true of Albert Schwartz. Just
after he won the first champion
ship he went into business for hlm
s»lf and didn't show up in a tour
nament outside of New Orleans for
ten years. As soon as he left the
leisure cl>ass 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.
/CONDITIONS exactly similar ob
tain in tennis, with a slight va
riation. Atlanta has had for many
years two players who 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.
If this hadn't been true, Atlanta
would 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
By Tad
championship, which has been 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 monopolj- 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.
• • •
'THE hope of Atlanta In golf an<
tennis lies with the youngei
generation. For years the blamt
for the slow development of goli
and tennis lay with the Atlantx
Athletic club. It did not encour
age junior players.
Now, it Is a sad fact that you cai
seldom make great tennis or golf
players unless you "take 'ert
young.” Walter Travis, It is true
learned golf well after he had at
tained his majority, and a few
players have learned to perform
with the racquet after they were
grown. But a good 99 per cent of
the star players in the. 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 be 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
seml-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.