Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-02-18
ATHLETICS WILL
FLOURISH IN GYM
~ n c. A. Structure Pro-
,id,s Home for Amateufism
In Sport
rsE EQUIPMENT is CoMPLET
49,. ulll Support Everything That's
Healthy ia Sporting World Al
most Finished.

-..,,s, tbe new " NJ, c, a. building
ma Garner OF state and First South
.,, Is thrown open for a house
".rmne TO the friends Of the y NJ.
who have given support to the
.,ysment which resulted in ITS being
KIM The building itself will not be
..,5r FOR occupancy for a month or
~ I'M n is now nearly enough nm
l,.3 In allow a description Of It's prin-
.si tsatures and the class Of work
rlll attempt TO accomplish
voo that the baseball world IL airing
,,r, No scandals,the lesson from which
KAN crooked snort Kills itself-and
.,.s,,ilng is pronounced a dead sport
,.,opse tbp incentive for crooked work
rIH too great and California is at
,Sno,he To legislate all boxing con-
,tTs oni Of the state, because of the
,,slodorous reputation from fixed lights
AMI Native Son decisions, the COM
nIalon OF big home for amateur attn
o,lcs IN Salt Lake Is a signal event.
Tbls because Il win be a home for the
,plr.i m snort which refuses 10 tolerate
M Inst VI gain, as an end or athletic
syercise. But two such centers OF love
6r athletics az the inventor loves hia
science unselhshly, remain IN America,
ana they are the University and the CO.
oteratyely built gymnasium IN the
ciiles Their attitude Is that as the
school room Is an exercise ground for
me brain. so the athletic field and the
gymnasium are training places for the
Drawn that's IN n man.
Until recently schools overlooked the
Development Of Drawn, but now In Salt
lake one may bear discussed the desir-
ability Of an athletic director IN the
public schools, and the cry for a gym"
81 the University IS about the loudest
hing heard in the Legislature.
What this place Is meant TO be-"
ald Secretary Coke Of the Y. NJ. G. A.
Yesterday. "is a gathering place for the
people II was built by them, 1t Is
meant for them. And whatever fees
there are are to protect It TO their uses"
Then he showed his interviewer
through "a building meant 10 conserve
lil double purposes OF n home TO the
yong men loose upon the world, but
respectable, n school for the working
p0lle and a gymnasium for organized
snitsur athletics.
WHAT THE GYM WILL DO.
over everything at the new Y. NJ.
G. A. home there "a 90 be n spirit
q Christian heIpfulness, hut hard
By Of piety-especaly that sort Of
pNy that is not rugged The big
building has It's offices downstairs, IT'S
d)fmItOres up stairs, but the main
portion Is taken mp IN am auditorium
'or debate meets, and the like, and a
big gymnasium for every sort Of help
MI athletics,
The gym" is the thing, and It Is
what makes the building 80 valuable to
ihe city A swimming pool 60 feet
ong suggests the alaborateness Of the
plan and when to that Is added a
spTlnsboard with nm eight-foot depth of
water to drop into, and q runway OF
Nteet IN approach, the luxurious wrink-
l@ are furnished the proposition, At
Wchn 10 H. as Is announced, are nu-
inerols shower baths, for after exer-
use bathing n turkish bathroom, u
no, water tub bath, and three big
locker rooms, one for each class OF
members, the small boys, the bigger
Toys and the business men.
EXERCISE FOR EVERYBODY.
Ihe big gymnasium nom itself
ABOVE The swimming pool ia "A thing to
delight the lover Of any kind of exer-
'he Along the walls are TO be 20
seN Of chest weights, with the floor
,teli illed with yDulting bars, low ana
hlgn couple NJ horses, suspended
horizontal bars lying and travelling
flgs and IN Tact most sorts Of COM
nrnNanCes OF the gymnasium world.
He en iho rowing machines are not over
.@Ned while the hlndball court Us
zone IN four brick walls, securing a uni
,OIn rebound for the ball wherever it
BUILDING FIREPROOF
There Is little wood to be encountered
~ gong over the building. tits most
y WeeD more steel, aud cement. 4 run
.Ug lmck suspended from the ceiling
ule best thing Of that nature i'm the
,gu.Iy, ior 10 embraces features learn
~ lloM the mistakes of older ones.
n.y.. nv suspension grders are inclined to
,. cue runner TO easily pass the
"'' ehead Of him, with the proper