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CHIEF CUMMINGS FINDS GATE CITY CLUB FIRE TRAP
F' IRE CHIEF W B. CUMMINGS
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
fighi club above classifies under
"fire trap.” \
Acting under orders of Chief
Cummings. Fire 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 m the
building.
Os course the garages can move
and then it may be O. K. for (he
fight club to remain. But the own
er of the building hardly figures ft
out this way.
Mr. Oattis said today that when
the fight club started business
there were no garages below What
a r e now garages were simply'show
rooms for automobiles. But since
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 tire
trap. The “athletic club" has been
doing business with but two nai
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 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 the stairway are less than
three feet wide and therefore It
would be impossible for over two
persons to descend at a time.
The fire escape is a joke if 25
persons ever tried to get down It at
one time it would crumple up like
so much sawdust This alleged file
escape runs down to a platform,
fully fifteen feet from the ground
And, to cap the climax, a person
leaping from this fire escape would
haxe to jump into a hole, from
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which he could never get out unless
be received 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 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
'baseball
Diamond News and Gossip
President Comiskey now has a mechani
cal device to spread canvas over his ball
park and t > take it off again
• • •
Charley Flank may get Bill Linjaay
and George Stcn#* from Portland, ©reg.,
though what he wants with them If they
are not good enough for Portland Is hard
to de»ermin< .
• * ♦
Folks are still poking fun at Hal Chase’s
sacrifice killer The play Is supposed
to be made as follows: With runners on
first and second, the batter hunts. The
first baseman plays way in, grabs the
ball and snaps it to third It is said to
be a tine play, except that nobody is
ever put out on it.
• • •
Heinie Pietz gave up his coaching du
ties with the Reds lojjg enough to scout
a bit through the South o’Day is look
ing for more pitchers from the South,
preferably another Benton.
< • •
Bill f’helon is author of the statement
that .Joe McGinnity is awfully good to his
folks.
“Most of his family work at the New
ark ball yard,' says Bill. “One brother
is assistant manager, another is secre
tary, a nephew is on the main gate, sev
eral first cousins are ushers and park po
licemen. Joe’s second cousins help the
ground-keeper, ami one lad, who claims
to be a distant relative, has been given a
job manicuring the street in front of The
ball park.”
• • •
The Rocky Mountain league wil be lucky
to last until July 4. In fact, it is wab
bling so violently now that everybody is
trying to get from under.
Ralls batted outside the Brooklyn park
will not he good for free admission, as
has been the Hrne-hcw-d custom.
President Hhbets says he will prosecute
every boy and man who tries to make
awa\ with one of his baseballs
• • •
We note in the United States league
department of a Pittsburg paper the news
that Ed Goes goes. So long. Ed.
• • •
* Umpire Spencer, in a recent Pekin-
Kankakee game, waved a player “out’’ so
vigorously that he dislocated his arm
• * •
Kid Elberfeld, who put up such a bluff
about getting “S6OO a week or nothing’’
from Chattaanooga, has quit with Mil
waukee He couldn’t get in shape and
apparently his arm is dead His perve
alone remah s intact
Boh Harmon is ineffective this year and
ihe theory of Bresnahan as to the cause
is that Harmon doesn’t use his fast ball
often enough. Too many curves have
ruined his record.
I'd Konev is putting up an awful yell
because the fences at the Polo grourtds
are painted yellow. He claims he can't
see a thrown ball until it gets right to
him.
• • •
The Cards have a new pitcher, Roland
Howell, from Baton Rouge college. His
shoulders are said to be broader than
Harmon’s, which is uncanny broad
• • •
“George Stovall has tieen appointed
manager of the Browns to succeed Bobby
Wallace.” says L. C. Davis. “We con
gratulate them both.’’
• • •
Pittsburg alleges to hear a rumor that
Tommy I.each may soon succeed Frank
Chance as manager of the Cubs It Is
quite likely that Chance is about ready
to resign
• • •
Lelivelt leads the International league
In batting, with 405. Bill Zimmerman.
ex-Cracker with Newark, has slumped
down to .275.
• • •
Baltimore has taken on Pixie Walker
and is negotiating for Frank Smith, of
Cincinnati.
Bob Gantt. Southern college pitcher
with Baltimore, who has been out of the
game for awhile with a sore elbow has
rejoined his club.
• • •
Brooklyn has decided to let out Cy
Barger He will probably go to Cincin
nati for Gaspar.
• • •
The Highlanders once paid J Callahan
S2OO to go out and look over lairry Hoyle.
Callahan went, looked and wired "Slow,
can't field, can't bat." As a tip it was a
great S2OO worth. Doyle couldn't be
bought from the Giants now for a fortune.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. FRIDAY. J L’NE 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 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' mo«e is un
doubtedly a wise one. The boxing
game in the state, and probably all
over the country, wpuld get a de
cidedly black eye If fire ever broke
out al the Gate City "Athletic
club,” for the fans would have no
chance of escaping.
[boxing
Late News and Views
K O. Brown's manager is in receipt of
an offer from Promoter Tom O’Day for
h. I ‘‘!l’ ko ut- to fight twenty rounds with
w tliie Richie on the coast June 29.
• • •
Manager Billy Gibson, of the Garden
A. C., New York, plans to- hold a popular
price boxing 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
round fight with Joe Thomas in New Or
leans next Monday night.
Pittsburg boxing fans aje in an uproar
because Ad Wolgast tailed to carrv out
his scheduled six-round bout with' Phil
Brock.
• • a
Johnnie Creely 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 and build one of the largest and
most up-to-date boxing stadiums in this
country.
...
Harry Donahue and Steve Ketchfel will
box ten rounds in Peoria June 17.
♦ • •
Soldier Elder and Charley Miller went
ten rounds to a draw in San Francisco a
few night sago. Elder is the moving pic
ture man who expressed his desire for a
match with Jack Johnson.
...
It will be but a short time before Abe
Attell will <iuit training and leave Billv
Nolan's ranch for San Francisco, where
he will probably try himself out bv 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 thr&ugh
his pugilistic career without ever being
a champ. If Packey was as strong at
133 as he is at 138 pounds ringside he
would be undisputed champ.
• • •
Walter Brooks is scheduled to meet
Mike Malta tn New York tomorrow night
Ad Wolgast will start training in one
week for his July match with Mexican
Joe Rivers. Adolph says he will engage
in no more short bouts before he meets
Rivers.
• • •
Jimmy Johnson. Owen Moran's man
ager. should have been a press agent In
stead of a manager. When listening to
Johnson fepring some of Moran’s history
one would think the Britain was 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 Olympic
games at Stockholm, a movement was
set on foot here today to have them
remain in Europt* for a short time to
give exhibitions.
Already Americans in France are ar
ranging dates for a monster meeting in
Paris, when the Americans will be
given a chance to meet the best of the
French athletes soon after the Olympic
games.
McFarland batters his
MAN UP AND COPS STEP IN
MUSKEGON, MICH.. June 7.—Pack
ey MaeFarland practically knocked out
Frank Brennan, who claims the welter
weight championship of Canada, in the
fourth round of a scheduled ten-round
bout here.
MaeFarland 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 MaeFarland could get in
the finishing blow the police stopped
the fight.
EPITLD ty W. S FARNSWORTH
GREAT FIELD OF OLYMPIC
CANDIDATESJN 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
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
oAls and fifths.
Sb many star athletes have entered
for the 400. SOO 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 times at the regulat- 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 JTuss Eord was working
for the Yanks against the Naps and
was being hit hard. In an effort to
save himself he twice tried to walk
Lajoie. The big Frenchman refused to
take bases on balls, however. Twice he
stepped across 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 back again abont 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 cl.ib
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 Ad 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 Bllllter
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 11. Whiting,
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 athleti? 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 now has three
others—George W. Adair, W. R.
Tiehenor 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. It’ has two men out of four
1n the semi-finals being played now
at Chattanooga. Five years out
of the iast eleven, New Orleans
players have won the low score
medal. Four out of the last seven
team matches have been won 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. Nelsop 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
goif. 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 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.
• • *
/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 i s 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 been held
for years inxAtlanta, 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 srtiash
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.
• e •
-pHE hope of Atlanta in golf and
x 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 is 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 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 Alt xa
Stirling, the greatest golfer of her
age, male or female, in all the
South. But there are a lot of boys,
just 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 thei
honor and glory of Atlanta in sec
tional and perhaps national events.
In this younger generation will 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.