The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-03
NEW ATHLETIC
CLUB ORGANIZED
4 School of Physical Culture TO
Be Started in Palama
District.

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started in Honolulu, which will be con-
Quoted on strictly amateur lines, as
are the athletic clubs on the Main
land
The object of the club is to encourage
outdoor. as well as indoor, athletics.
James A. Fox, who for a number of
wears was athletic instructor of the
Reliance Club, of Oakland, Cal, has
been endeavoring for some time, with
the assistance of a number of other
Young men to establish a similar or
ganization in Honolulu.
Their efforts to find suitable quarters
have at last been successful, and they
have engaged the entire upper floor or
the two-story building opposite the
railway depot on King street. No bet
ter selection could have been made the
location being but a few minutes walk
from the center of the city, and so
located as to receive the cool breeze
that comes down through Nuuanu Val
ley, thereby making exercise pleasure
as well as a pastime.
The space to be occupied is thirty
five by seventy-five feet. a reading and
reception room will be partitIoned off
from the gymnasium, and Will contain
a billiard table and all the latest pa
pers and periodicals, so that those not
DESTROYS of exercising may enjoy the
evening in other ways.
The gymnasium is to be fitted up
with the latest Improved punching bag.
rowing machine, chest eXercisers, and
| all the necessary apparatus for the
building Up of a good physique. The
| shower baths are so arranged on the
yeranda of the clubhouse that after
exercising one is not needlessly exposed
to draught.
The club has already over eighty
charter members. On Thursday even
| ing next, at 1880 o'clock, meeting
will be held at the clubrooms for the
purpose of electing officers and adopt
ing a name for the club.
| Jimmy Fox will be the clubs boxing
| instructor, and a better man for the
position it would be hard to find. He
| has been in the boxing game for years
as an amateur, and is one of the clev-
crest men on the Coast, and certainly
! the cleverest in Hawaii
The initiation fee of the new club
will be 81 50. and the monthly fees 81.
The aim of the promoters is to provide
a place where young men may learn
| how to box, under respectable auspices,
and through a competent instructor.
AS soon as the club is in working
! order football team will be organized
! and put into training. Other outdoor
sports will also be fOstered.
The privileges of the clubhouse win
be extended to the newspaper men OF
the city at all times and free OF any
charge whatever Members or the
press will always be made welcome
Included in the gymnasium equip
ment Will be Yale developer, an APP
pliance that can be used with the ut
| cot nv
letic exercise: the contrivance being
composed of elastic cords neatly bound,
and having at either ends arranged
hooks, the upper ones being attached
into the handles-the lower ones are
similarly connected to straps that fas-
ten at the ankles, the latter being held
in place by a second strap. thus form
ing a loop. and which the foot is slip
ped into thereby forming strong re-
sistance to the action of the arms
while performing the various exercises.
The gymnasium will also contain
Fox's compound air device for the Gull
tivation of muscle, and for strength
ening and increasing the capacity of
the lungs.
Other apparatus of physical culture
which will be procured are: hy-
drauIic rowing machine, with sliding
seat and Indicator, so graduated that
one revolution is equivalent to 100
| strokes, or one-third of mlle-based
on Hanlon's time of thrtytwo strokes
per minute; a home trainer with an
arrangement by which the rollers are
made to revolve simultaneously when
the operator runs or walks upon the
same and a wrist machine that is used
for the purpose of strengthening the
muscles of the wrist, and for broaden
ing and rounding the forearm.
Fox recently received from Billy De-
laney, Jeffres trainer, the gloves used
in the Jeffres- Fitzsimmons battle.
They will grace the gymnasium of the
new club.