The San Francisco call., 1896-05-14
OIL LYMP|CS IN The SWIM,
Twenty-Five Hundred Dollars
Will Be Expended on
Bathrooms.
Fitzsimmons Will Turn the Champion.
ship Over to Peter Jackson and
Corbett Must Fight.

The Olympic Club is making very ex-
tensive Improvements in its natatorial de-
partment. Considerable of the coin which
the club received from the boxing festival
will be expended in renovating the bath
ing rooms and the apartments connected
with the swimming tank.
According to Director Short and other
officials who are interested in the club s
welfare, the salt water has eaten into the
leaden pipes connecting with the baths.
The woodwork of the bathrooms has also
suffered TO great extent from the same
cause, and the directors concluded that
something had to be done, and very
quickly, too, to prevent further inroads
from the salt water.
Men are now at work putting in con-
crete floor and walls and when the work
is completed the club will have bathrooms
of which, for comfort, it can feel deservedly
proud. Pipes OF brass or galvanized iron
will replace the leaden pipes which have
not, by any means, withstocd the inroad s
of the salt water.
Considerable alterations will be made in
the bathing departments. Instead of the
two bathing floors, as at present, there
viii be but one floor when the contractors
have compile ted their task of reconstruc-
ton. In fact the Olympic bathing de-
partment is undergoing a general reno
waiting, and the members can rest assured
of having most comfortable bathing
quarters when the task of renovatlng is
completed. The club estimates that the
cost of the i'm provements will amount to
| lovers of natatorial exercises comfort and
pleasure for the future.
Eddie kolb, the crack wheelman of the
Corinthian Yacht Club, will leave this
City on Sunday morning on board his
! bike for the famous orange belt of Los
Angeles. Kolb will be escorted as far as
san Jose by several of the most prominent
of the Corinthian scorchers. The cham
pion "fiier," Sam Morris, will head the
| procession. He will have as his assistants
Pete Stone, Petey McLaren, Teddy Lun-
stedt. A. J. Lyons and Lieutenant Stanley.
Mr.. Kolb will be gone from the City for
several weeks, but he has promised his
friends, who are legion, that he will ship
them several boxes of oranges and fish
when he strikes" the orange groves and
fishing banks.
Billy Gallagher of Los Angeles, who has
been matched by the National Club to
fight Danny Needham, arrived yesterday
and left imme diately for his training
quarters. Gallagher is looking splendid,
and although he does not say much con-
corning his bout with Needham he is new
ertheless very confident of whipping his
opponent.
According to the latest intelligence
from the East, Bob Fitzsimmons is max
ing preparations to visit England. A par
ticular friend of Lanky Bob, resident
OF this City, received letter from "the
champion not very long ago, and it ter.
| minated thusly:
Yes, friend; I am going to London, and
If Corbett persists in putting STUN bling
blocks in my way l will do with him as he
has done 10 me. If Peter Jackson is any
thing like what he was when we last
saw him in this country, will turn over
the championship to Peter. You know
that Jackson has tried every means to get
return match with Corbett, but Artful
James has always avoided a second meet
| ing with Gentleman Peter. Now, if Jack
son is in any kind of condition, will
transfer the title I hold to him, and Cor
bett must then fight Jackson or get off the
| earth. | had a letter from London not
very long ago and the writer said that
Jackson was not half as bad, physically, as
the correspondents of American papers re-
ported him to be. Jackson can make a
good tight yet, and i have every reason to
believe that he will punch the head off of
Corbett If the two will ever meet. Ii Peter
suffers defeat will meet Corbett.''