St. Paul daily globe., 1889-01-09
TRAINING FOR ATHLETES.
A Proposition for a Complete Gym
nasium.
FIVE HUNDRED MEMBERS.
Muscular Development to Be Entrusted
to Skiliful Boxers and Professional
Sprinters.

eff we can't have an ice palace, we
can have something that will EN-
thuse' the boys" said one of the men,
bers at the headquarters of the st.
George Snow Shoe club last even
ing. There was a gathering
to organize from among the
representative men. both young and
old, of the city, large, well equipped
and thoroughly appointed gymnasium,
with spacious and commodious apart
ments, affording for its members all
that the finest Eastern gymnasium and
club rooms do for the culture, training
and pleasure, either physical or mental.
One to which only the better class of
young men will be admitted to active
membership, and to which the
business and professional men of the
city can go and enjoy what suits their
tastes of exercise and training. Mag
nificent baths will be prominent
feature of the institution, and large
and Well-kept running track, which
will furnish ample space for all
other of the many departments of the
gymnasium. All the modern athletic
appliances and apparatus will be en-
bodied in its equipment, and competent
instructors and professors-of other
than sporting men Or those who have
won distinction ill the pugiliStic arena
will be in constant attendance upon the
wants and instruction of the members.
The size of the room in the building
proposed is to be about LOO feet square,
with anterooms, offices, galleries and
other apartments. About twenty ele-
CANT bath rooms are proposed, and lock-
erS for 500 members. The gymnasium
will be lighted by electricity and heated
with steam.
This scheme has been quietly agitated
among the leading business and pro-
fessional men of the city, land cards have
been sent to a great many men known
by the committee to be interested in
such an undertaking, to meet at the
chamber of commerce building to-mOr-
row evening. William M. Bushnell,
Arnold Kalman.. William Dawson, Jr.,
Sheldon Blakely Emil Kuby and George
Lamb and others will address the aud
iance upon the matter in which all the
members of both the best clubs have
taken the deepest interest. A large at
tendance is expected and personal in
to the committee. A cordial invitation
is extended to all who may feel an in
terest in the perfection of the organiza-
ton.
The officers of the West Side Athletic
park offer liberal aid, and the associa
tion will avail itself of the well adapted
grounds in the exercise of their games
and sports. The association is to be in
cOrpOrated and stock will be issued.
The membership will be limited, but to
what number will of course be open to
the voice of charter members.
There is no adequate gymnasium in
st. Paul, and great many young men.
members Of the boat and other clubs,
have had no place to exercise and keep
in training during the winter season. 1t
has become a necessity that such
movement should be inaugurated. Min
neapOliS has no club at present which
affords its athletes and gymnasts an OPP
portunity for keeping up the muscle
and training acquired in the summer.
But it is understood that they pro-
pose to fit up the old Duplessis
gymnasium again. To the presence of
that institution in Minneapolis two
years ago those who know say that the
Lurlines owe their victory over the Min
nesotas in the regatta held at Mime
tonka. The former trained in the GYM
nasium all winter, and the latter had to
do the best they could without one. The
day of the struggle the Lurlines were
the best trained men. Hence both boat
clubs are enthusiastic eXponents of
the new movement, and will
form nucleus upon which to
build up a large and select member
ship. Thursday night will bring to-
gether the young men of the city and a
large contingent of the boat club men,
bers. Able orators will lay the scheme
before them and action will be taken
for permanent organization. The st.
George Snowshoe club has proffered
the support of large number of its
members, among whom there is some OF
the best athletic talent of the city.