Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-06
ATHLETIC CLUB
PLANS OPENING
MITCHELL BROTHERS ASSUME
CHARGE OF BASKETBALL
Crack Boxers and HsndbaIllsts Being
peveloped-cIever Young Athletes
Join Membershlp-Plans
for Future

for Future
Directors OF the Los Angeles Athletic
club yesterday announced the date for
their opening house warming and
smoker. While the doors at 5S41a South
Spring street have swung open to men,
bers for many weeks, the present quar-
ters have never vet been the scene Of
any sort of fitting celebration, and n
week from next Thursday, May IL,
will see impromptu fun galore about
the house OF the winged foot
No program is being prepared and
admission is strictly by card. Refresh
ments win be served and 1t is quietly
limited that there will be something
doing all the WHILE" for L. A. A. c.
members are a jolly good lot, steeped
in the spirit OF fraternity and never too
busy TO bedevil each other In some
harmless way.
The club took popular action last
week upon the admission of the famous
Mitchell brothers to membership, plac-
ing them in charge of the formation of
a basketball team to represent the in
stitution. Stanley and Mowatt Mitch
ell, sons of ]. S. Mitchell, manager Of
the Hollenbeck hotel need no introduc-
ton to those who follow athletics. AS
high school boys they made a hit in
every game they tried from baseball to
football, and at the baskets they are
the equals of any. The winged foot
will soon adorn a fast, classy basket
ball team. for in the L. A. A. G. mem-
bership are such versatile athletes as
w. H. Loomis, whose perfect physique
attests the value of systematic train
ing, to say nothing of perhaps equally
clever men as yet undeveloped. The
Mitchells are in full charge and the
making of a good team has been put
UP to them with carte blanche from the
directors.
Frank A. Garbutt picked out the cup
which he is going to give the handball
players last week and 1t is a beauty;
large and. fashioned plainly but ele-
gantly from solid silver. 1t is valued
at S125, and probably the men who put
their names on it, would not take twice
that for the honor.
HandbaII Committee
Election of a handball committee was
closed last night when the ballots of
the members were counted, Adolph
Frankel. Joseph p Amestoy and
Charles L. Moon being selected to su-
perintend arrangements for the coming
tournament, which opens June 1. The
Garbutt cup will then be played for
in addition to q number of handsome
trophies of lesser magnitude. Specula-
tion on a winner is already rife, but
the players are a hard lot. Samuel
Hall, Will Whelan, Will Loomis. Moon,
Amestoy and some of the older ones
are all in the running, Everybody is
entering, all helping to make the game
go along. New recruits are many. H.
d. Ryus, Theodore Gordon, r. b.
Young, B. o. Garfield, George Adair,
Secretary w. A.. Hays. Fred Siegel
Peter MacDougall, E. e. Mcdowell, r.
E. Trickle, Y. F. Del Vale, R. A. Dun
nigan. among a dozen or two of others
seldom let more than day go by with
out putting by few new points about
the game of handball.
R. A. Dunnigan has taken the chair
manship of the boxing committee and
is helping Tom Mcmahon, the clubs
physical director, with some of the am
bilious. Dunnigan is splendid boxer
finished almost to professional caliber
and Is the posseSsor of a trim, we'll
muscled body, typical of the glove
craftsman'S game. His volunteering
to get the ambitious sparrerS together
has started renewed activity with the
padded mittS. Some talk of holding
tournament in the future. is being
made. 1. o. Levy, a bantam boxer
Of lis pounds gross tonnage, and other
small fellows make hot set-tos al
times. William Graham, the pho.
tographer, is able to box more thar
negatives whenever a man Of his
inches happens along. Ed Moore, Me
Nordlinger, John Brink, Charlie Eytor
and, in fact, half the active member.
ship take a chance" occasionally. Il
is a notable fact that the boxers are
as class, the best developed men IL
the gymnasium-seldom MUSCLE bound
but fast and free.
The Wrestlers
Tom Mcmahon is taking hold of the
wrestlers and expects to develop a few
good ones. The grappler's game is no
child's play, and no one learns 1T in
day, but many are willing to learn
Frank Sentou5 and several other o.
the clubs heavyweights can Ego some
on the mat, however, and they will
lessen McMahon's educational duties
somewhat.
The club declared its first dividend
to the stockholders last Tuesday, pay
ing 115 per cent. Nothing could NOR
plainly attest the sound financial con
dition of the institution whose success
at the age of three months is a re
markable tribute to the average Lo
Angelan's love of exercise and ath
letics. A lot is being selected and th
club will erect thereon large build
ing devoted probably to its own uses
and similar to the finest structures o
the sort in the east. An ultimat
membership of 1900 is aimed at, bu
the present limit of 800 is considered
ample for the quarters now available
and when it is reached a waiting lis
win be established and the initiation
fee increased.
Among acquisitions to the member
shin during the last two weeks ar