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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 Chew DRUMMOND V X IF" Tastes good goes! | farther. Half the I ■ usual chew is plenty! I My 1 It’s good’ 1 Idrummondi NATURAL LEAF ' g CHEWING TOBACCO g Nhi , iii. ibiwii , r MONEY TO LOAN ON DIAMONDS AND JEWELRY Strict ly confidential. Unredeemed pledges *■ diamonds for sale, 30 per cent les than elsewhere. MARTIN MAY (Formerly of Schaul A May ) 1! 1-2 PEA jH RE: ST. UPSTAIRS Absolutely Private. Opposite Fourth Nat Bank Bidg Both Phones F.S4 WE BUY OLD GOLD 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. [ 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- “ ,| Sumar Information Sumar is an American weave. It is a Muse order-—for X a cloth similar to the English Fresco—made in our own country £ W at muc h less cost. |S| We fdund the weaver, who |j|l O was at once enthusiastic about the work of bringing it to perfection. jBuF SUMAR is made of oure W||[ worsted yarn, which commends it for high-grade tailoring. It is Sk apparently closely woven--tho fflmi ve,A e ’ ast^c to a dmit of the free V circulation of air. Sumar is the successful summer fabric c tor suits. Tan, gray, brown or blue COC with silk thread decoration Geo. Muse Clothing Co. Copyright. ISIS. National News Asa's. 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.