Omaha daily bee., 1890-04-06
THE OLYMPIC CLUB HOUSE.
1t Lays Claim to Being the Very Finest in
the Country.
sUNOL AND AXTELL TO BE MATCHED.
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Belt Bluf-Other Cosby Sport
ing Notes From the Pa
cific Slope.

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, April Especial
Correspondence of THE BEE sporting mat
ters in San Francisco are booming. The in
tcrcst taken in sports of all kinds is phenom-
cnal. This is due in measure to the climate
which permits ''outing'' during nearly every
month of the year.
inspected the grounds of the Olympic
club a day or so ago and they are superb.
''You can safely say,n said Superintendent
w. +. Bouton, that the Olympic club of San
Francisco has now the best and most com
pete athletic grounds in America. The
grounds cover lot 240x4J0 feet and the club
has expended nearly 10000 for improve
ments. For long time we have been in cor
rcspOndence with the leading eastern athletic
clubs, among them the Harvard and New
York clubs, and have from them received
suggestions, which we have utilized so that
now we have every appliance which modern
ingenuity can suggest
Some of the principal features of the new
grounds are: The clubhouse, which is a per-
feet gem in its appointments; the hurdles,
which are separate for each runner, and ar
ranged for l20 and 22O yard races; thirty
five yard cindcr track for the runway to the
running high and broad Jumps and the ele-
giant and comfortable press stand opposite the
grand stand Harry Nj. Johnson, one of the
representative sprinteIs of this country, VINO
is now in this city, has pronounced the speed
track the fastest in the United States, while
the handball court is built after suggestions
received from the Brooklyn champion, Casey.
1t is the intention of the club to add tho
best lawn tennis courts to be had in, and an
effort will be made TO induce the California
Tennis asssOciation to hold its championship
meetings there next July.
The Olympic clubs new grounds arc near
the terminus of the Haight street railroad and
We're completed few days ago when the club
took informal possession of them. They will
lNA fAn hn nT "a mo lfafsl nf
from now on, but the formal public opening
will not take place until May 30, whom the
championship games OF the Pacific Coast
Amateur Athletic association will be held
there under the auspices OF the olympic
club,
Tennis win be one of the many attractions
of the new Olympic club grounds Two
courts will bc built as a starter but II this
branch of athletics is taken in charge by
some good man dozen courts VIII De re-
quircd in n few years. This club possesses
the material for making fine tennis players,
and it only needs encouragement at the be
ginning to get fifty or "a hundred men sur
tiCiently interested TO practice diligently In
very few years players would be developed
who could hold their own against anybody.
No less than three reputable associations in
the east have offered purses ranging from
$1,000 TO $4,000 for meeting between Sunol,
2;lOlS, the coming queen, and AXteA, 2;l2, the
stallion king, Such "A match would draw
hoSemen from all over the country, for IL
would involve two great questions of national
interest Both horses are fouryear-olds.
Sunol is the greatest representative of the
Electioneer family; Axtell the greatest of the
George Wilkes family The latter is tho
greatest sire the country ever saw; Elec-
tloneer Is the grandest living. ANtcll was
bred In Iowa, Sunol had birth I'M California.
1t would be a contest approaching in charlc-
ter the famous Ten Broeck- Mollie McCarty
race, the east against the west and it would
also be a contest in which living Electoneer
would he pittcd against dead George Wilkes.
Jams, one of the owners of AXtell has been
interviewed concerning the match. Axtell is
IN the stud, but will be prepared 10 lower his
record by Budd Doble, l!ams says that If