San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-03-14
AN ATHLETIC GENTLEMAN.
Mr.. Maynard DiScourSeS Upon
the Benefits That May Accrue
to San Antonio in the


to San Antonio in the
Future.
San Antonio now has in her midst
very versatile and accomplished
gentleman in the person OF Mr.. Harry
Maynard. He is the retired light
weight champion pugilist of the Pa
cific coast, is an author of dramatic
plays of some note and great accom-
pllshment, is an all around athlete,
and an actor and musician OF many
and varied accomplishments. Be-
sides, being able to play upon almost
every known musical instrument, his
variety of characters, from the negro
minstrel end man, jolly sailor, tramp,
to walking gentleman and tragediaD,
classes him high as to versatility.
With all this, and the fact that he
has made his living and quite COM
petence beside, for the last Is or 20
years, among sporting people and in
the sporting business, he is gentle
man of rare breeding and fine tone and
illustrates the fact that in any
path of life, even as pugilist, a man
may always be gentleman. He be-
gan as an athlete in a circus, riding
horses in London, his birthplace, and
since then has run the whole scale,
wrestler, boxer, leaper, sprinter, tum-
bier, trapeze, etc. He has passed the
last fourteen years of his life in Cali
fOrnia, where he is identified with
every class of sport known, and is
known and liked by not only all
sporting men, but stands high with
the best people in all walks of life. In
San Francisco his place of business is
the center for all amusements of O.
sporting character, and is the resort
of all the pleasure loving sportsmen
of the Pacific coast. He is the recog-
nized leader in arranging all walking
matches, boxing, wrestling and other
contests, and has an athletic
class composed of some of the
best doctors, lawyers, judges and
merchants of San Francisco. He has
taught many Of them the manly art
of boxing and was the organizer of the
famous California athletic club and
the Golden Gate athletic club. Mr..
Maynard is now filling an engage
ment as an actor and musical special
list at the Fashion theatre, in COM
pany with his wife. His engagement,
however, is short, much shorter than
the people who have seen him would
desire. Speaking to LIGHT reporter
yesterday he said:
~ like the climate of San Antonio
and so does my wife. We both feel
better since we came here, and the
cold that has settled on my lungs is
much freer here. l would like to stay
and although [ am engaged for only
two weeks, yet the business am now
engaged in of trying to locate the great
Sullivan-Kilrain championship prize
fight somewhere near San Antonio
may keep me here much longer. If
we can locate the fight here, it will
bring 100000 into your city. People
Australia and from California and
greatest kind of thing tor your city.
Mr.. Richard X. Fox is a personal
friend of mine and 1 am in CORES
pondence with him. He is quite
favorable to locating the match here,
according to my details of the place.
am also corresponding with
McAulitfe who fought the great
fight recently with Jackson, and he
will meet any eastern man here for
the championship, either Sullivan or
Kilrain.
II would like" continued Mr.. May
nard, "tO locate permanently in San
Antonio and open up a first class
gentlemen's resort, with club rooms
attached, where l could teach the
glorious principles of athletics, box
ing, etc. There is need of such
place here, and if meet with proper
encouragement / will venture it and
will put in a first class gymnasium
and run it on the very squarest of
business principles"
Mr.. Maynard has the means to
back what he says and his plans are
certainly good. Beside bringing the
great championship match of the
world, with it's accompanying multi
tude of devotees of the manly art of
self defence, his idea of gentlemen's
athletic and boxing club in San An
tonic is meeting with great favor.
San Antonio gentlemen, and ladies,
too, for that matter, need a first class
calisthenic school and if such an in
stitution was run upon the very best
of order this talented gentleman
would meet, we feel sure, with hearty
encouragement, not only from the
gentlemen, but from the ladies.