The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-17
REVIVAL OF
THE OLYMPIC
F|ST|CUFFS
Boxing the Feature
for Some Months.
ALL CLASSES REPRESENTED
FEATHER-WEIGHTs WILL MEET
IN FEBRUARY.
ALL CLASSES REPRESENTED
FEATHER WEIGHTS WILL MEET
IN FEBRUARY.
Leader Hammersmith Is Determined
to Bring Back the Good Old
Times of Sport to the
Popular Club.

Inc Olympic Club having had consider
able experience in athletic affairs has ar
rived at the conclusion that to entertain
Its members it must give something in the
way of outdoor and indoor athletics
us present leader John Hammersmith,
dlr1ers very materially with the views of
Howard Taylor, who has been the past
leader of the club. The last-named gen.
tIeman had unquestionably most conserv-
atlve ideas, but his system of conducting
athletic affairs was on such a penurious
scale that the athletes of the club became
thoroughly disguised and positively re-
fused to participate In any of the athletic
affairs advanced by Mr.. Taylor The re-
suit was that the members who had been
accustomed to witness indoor athletics
monthly grew weary and tired of the Tay-
Tor management and resigned from that
grand athletic institution.
When Leader Taylor's term of office
expired, the president of the club,
realizing that something apart from
the general order of affairs had to be done
70 retain large percentage of the ath-
letes, consulted with some of the mem
bers who had been in the past instrument
al IN creating widespread interest in
ATHLETIC pastimes and as a consequence
John Hammersmith, the popular athlete,
was selected to revive the fast-fading in
terest in affairs athletic, which means
outdoor as we'll as indoor pastimes.
OF course Mr.. Hammersmith was elect
ed-to use a turf expression-with hands
down but his task is. unquestionably
most difficult. Johnny" as he is better
known to his club mates, has a difficult
undertaking before him. For four years
athletic sports in the Olympic Club have
suffered from inanition. The leaders were
either careless or did not understand how
to handle their men. Whichever may
have been the cause the decline in ath-
letic affairs has been most apparent and
the task of reviving the fading interests
ChOul6prS
Trojan, John Hammersmith.
1t goes without saying that Leader
John will leave no stone unturned to
bring about the soul stirring features of
the past, but his task is assuredly not of
the most pleasant, still he hopes to bring
back with perseverance the happy hours
messed in the days when he and Eddie
Kolb had charge of the athletic affairs Of
this grand athletic institution.
Mr. HammerSmith is now arranging
letic sports which should command the
patronage of all thorough amateur sports
men.
Commencing with February he will give
a feather weight boxing tournament, open
to all boxers who desire to contest for the
championship belt; the gift of Herman
OelrichS; in March a lightweight series
of contests will be held; in April the
feather-weights will be given an oppor-
tunity of winning honors; in May the
welter-weights viii have an inning, and
in June the middle-weights will be Of
fered inducements to defend the coast
title of championship of the class they
represent.
Handsome prizes will be given to the
winners of each class, regardless of the
fact of their standing as amateurs and
professionals are now clasSed alike, ac-
cording to q recent ruling of the Anna teur
Athletic Union. Only boxers who can pro-
duce good records will be noticed in the
entries for any of the classes named.
Apart from the indoor sports Leader
Hammersmith proposes to Introduce field
sports at the Olympic outdoor grounds
during the spring and summer months.