Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-03
NEW ATHLETIC PARK.
The East End Gymnastic Club Secures
an Excellent Place
TO GIVE OUTDOOR TOURNAMENTS.
A New Clubhouse to Be Built by the Pitts.
burg Tennis Club.
DEVELOPMENTS IN AMATEUR SPORTING

BY the East End Athletics, and to fit it up
for general gymnastic purposes. Some time
ago The DISPATCH stated that the club
was preparing to blossom out extensively in
outdoor sports, and this is the elimination
of its plans 1t will proceed at once to fix
up the grounds in frst-class shape for all
around amateur sports. Dressing rooms
and seating accommo dations will be pre-
pared for exhibitions, and they will doubt
less be yer, numerous.
First of all, frst-cIsss ball ground will
be made, and as the club has the material
for a splendid baseball team it proposes to
put one in the field, and. if county league
is formed, go in with the firm expectation
of laying the pennant away among its tro-
phies of victory. Baseball Will not be the
only sport advanced in the new park, and,
in fact, it will not be the feature, for atten-
ton will be given to every branch of out
door athletics.
A First-Class Running Track.
The park is 4O0113O0 feet, and this gives
room for one-ffth mile running and blcy-
Gle track, which will be put in. The track
will be OF the best material and the finest
short racing path in this part of the coun-
try. This will give good chance for the
clubs runners, cycles and sprinters and as
they will commence training in the early
spring. they will be prepared to win some
good contests when the tournaments shall
have begun in the different sections in the
State, to all of which the East End Gymnas-
tic Club will send representatives.
no m hoe n a
ton to offer its mem bers facilities for lawn
tennis, but courts will be made in their new
park. The will be at least two of them and
perhaps more.
Last seasons football team did not come
up to the expectations though it did some
excellent work. The bows had no place
to practice out, now that difficulty has been
surmounted and Prot. Kirchner is of the
opinion that next fall the club will have an
excellent team OF hard kickers. Another
effort will then be made to organize local
league of football teams and furnish some
rare sport in that killing game.
Proposed Field Tournaments This Season.
The members of the club are already be-
ginning to look forward to field tournaments
during the summer. They hope to have a
number of them at home, besides visiting
and contesting in those given in neighbor-
tournaments will include running, jump
ing, bicycling, wrestling, boxing, and in
fact everything in the way of outdoor amuse-
ments.
In the past two years the East End Gym
nastic Club has grown from an indifferent
amateur athletic organization into one Of
the most enthusiastic clubs in the country
Its clubhouse has been fitted up with appa-
ratus for the edevelopmento of the muscle. and
where only the rudiments were formerly
taught they now give a thorough teaching
in every branch. Their latest addition was
in the boxing department. Pat Farrell is
in charge of the boys in the pugilistic end,
and he has found some very apt pupils
The fencing department: is also holding up
well.
To Prof. Kirchner is due much of the
credit for the life that has been injected into
the club, though he has found able support
ers in'the officers and members. When he
came to Pittsburg two years ago he found
the club in semi-comatose state. and his
enthusiasm seemed to catch on at once, until
now every member seems ambitious to be-
come great athlete.
The Coming Season in Lawn Tennis.
There will be more tennis played in Pitts
burg and Allegheny the coming season than
ever before, though it iswell known that the
twin cities have been great places TOR lovers
of that pretty game, which is in fact the
only game in which ladies and gentlemen
can join with fair show of equality. Five
clubs in Western Pennsylvania have just
succeeded in becoming branch of the
national organization of tennis clubs. These |
clubs are the Pittsburg Tennis Club. Pitts |
burg Cricket Club. Sewickley Athletic As
sociation, Mansfield Tennis Club and Al |
toona Tennis Club.
According to the rules of the National |
Association, FIVE clubs must organize |
branch in order to come into the larger asso- |
citation. The Western Pennsylvania branch |
includes all west of Harrisburg. Under the |
new order Of affairs the Pittsburg Tennis |
Club was awarded the single championship, |
won at the tournament here last season by |
S. w. B. Morehead, and the Altoona club |
gets the double championship, though at |
last seasons tournament it was won BY S. |
w. B. Morehead and r. B. Reed, OF the |
Pittsburg club. 1t was through the efforts |
of these two gentlemen that this branch of |
the National Association OF Tennis Clubs |
was organized.
New Clubhouse to BE Built.
The Pittsburg Tennis Club is to have a |
new clubhouse. Committees have been ap- |
pointed to draft constitution and bylaws |
and secure charter for the club, which |
has not been run closely on business prin- |
ciples heretofore. A meeting oil the club |
will be called some time this mouth to take |
action on these matters.
As soon as possible the club will begin the |
erection of new home on their grounds on !
Craig street. The club has beauti. .ully |
situated park in Oakland and with the ad- |
ditiou of the proposed new club house it |
will be as well fixed as any tennis club In
the State. Last season the members of the |
club received some high compliments on |
their courts, which are the finest in the |
State and will compare favorably with those |
at the Eastern colleges or in New York. Two |
courts will be added at the end of the park |
and perhaps a couple Of junior courts will |
be put in. The expectation is that work |
will begin on the improvements at least by |
the middle of April, so that as early in the |
spring as the members are ready to try a |
hand at tennis the courts will be awaiting |
their pleasure. |
The New Amateur Athletic Association.
The new Amateur Athletic Association,
which has secured the lease on Exposition |
Park for such times as it is not bsing used |
by the ball club, promises to becohie an ex-
teusive factor in amateur sporting matters |
the coming summer. Already the club has |
over 80 members, and, though no attemptis
being made at present to add to the list, |
applications for membership are received |
almost every day. That matter will be al |
lowed to rest until the articles OF incorpora-
ton have been received, when all honorable
young men will be given an opportunity to
become members. 1t is expected that 250 |
viii be taken in.
This club will have everything in the way
ofout-door sports. A running track will
doubtless be put in and number of tennis