Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-28
WILL BUILD
IDEAL HOUSE
ATHLETIC CLUB BUILDING TO BE
OF CONCRETE
PLAN TO EMBRACE MANY KINDS
OF SPORT
Largest Indoor Swimming Pool in the
West tempIated-Rowing
Crew Is Training for
Regatta

Directors of the Los Angeles Athletic
club are planning to make their new
building the most complete temple ded-
icated to amateur sport anywhere in the
world. Although the plans as yet are
not drawn and no final design has been
accepted, enough already has been agreed
upon to assure the most elaborate and
most perfectly adapted building ever
occupied by any organization of the sort
anywhere.
The fruit of past experience Of other
clubs is being reaped by the local or
ganization, the latest of its kind The
expenditure of, in round figures 100000
is of itself guaranty that the building
will be erected with no view to saving
expense, that figure approximating $780,
900 for each story. The structure prob
ably will not exceed seven stories, and
six seems to be the idea at present,
although seventh story certainly will
be needed If the fertile brains of Gar
butt, Garland, Rowan and others evolve
any more additions to its comforts and
conveniences.
Paying special attention to the sports
now available in the present quarters.
it is proposed to afford the finest pos
sible facilities for outdoor exercising as
we'll. A number of handball courts will
be built on the roof, with the usual
indoor courts for bad weather.
One of the most interesting features
is to be the big swimming pool, which
is to be one of the largest ever built
indoors, and will cost many thousands
of dollars Beyond the information that
it will contain room enough for dozen
races at once, the directors have but
little to give out concerning this part
of their plans wise looks and an adj
monition to wait and see rewarding the
questioner.
Extensive Sport Program
| The sporting program of the new club
| is not to be bounded by the narrow
| limits of so-called gymnasium sports. A
number of games and diversions some-
what out of the regular line are pro-
posed Among other things the game
| of shooting with the rifle, shotgun and
| pistol will be encouraged, with such
much needed facilities as an outdoor
pistol range, rifle range and outdoor trap
| shooting grounds for devotees of the
shotgun, with perhaps long distance
rifle range also.
| Tennis courts, a baseball field, football
grounds and cricket field are also in
| contemplation, the club having, its eyes
upon several pieces of ground well
adapted to such purposes.
| Reinforced concrete probably will be
the material used in the building of. the
Los Angeles Athletic clubs new home,
| and the construction is to be of the very
best and most modern monolithic type.
Such fattering answers have been re-
| ceived to the offer of stock made few
| days ago by the directors that these
| gentlemen feel encouraged to attempt
anything within reason. The splendid
manner in which the biggest moneyed
men in the city have put their shoulders
| to the Athletic club wheel is a marvel
in local finance, and speaks splendidly
for the soundness of the business prop
osition. New life members are being
added and all of them are enthusiastic
about the future of the organization.
Among other sporting events which will
be put on by the club early in the
future are a chess tournament and a
fencing competition, the table game COM
ing first. A surprising number of the
members are devotees of the knight and
pawn game, and it is understood the
club is figuring on a series of telegraph
matches as soon as good team can
be picked from the list.
Many Good Fencers
OF fencers the club has several who
can hold their own in very fast COM
pany among them Warde l.. Heller and
his partner, Horne. Both these are very
graceful in action, and Heller In par
ticular is one of the surest points west
of the Mississippi river. He uses the
French school of fence in his work, as
does Horne, DOll HdNlHB peSn pupilS VI
the celebrated French master Foucher.
Work with the rowing crew which is
to meet the San Diegans is being pros
ecuted vigorously, and the fellows who
signed on to take all the gaff Physical
Director Treloar metes out to them are
finding out that it is no idle dream,
this thing of training for regatta.
There is no monkey business about the
sturdy Treloar; he puts the candidates
through with a vim that is calculated
to weed out all the weakened brethren
and the trif1ers who have no business
in crews The result probably will be
the best four Los Angeles Athletic club
ever had.
Just how much it will be able to do
with the San Diegans, who have several
years of work with bay right at their
feet, is hard to say. Treloar has been
doing work with the crew, both in the
gymnasium on the machine and on the
lagoon in the barge. He has reset the
rowing machine so that there are two
sliding seats now and single oars, as is
the arrangement in a shell or barge.
thus giving the men the nearest pos
sible approach to actual work that can
be had outside the real thing.
Some good strokes are being developed,
and a sturdy lot of athletes is resulting
from Treloar's work. He was a high
class oarsman at Harvard, and uses
the Harvard stroke with notifications of
his own which he believes are an inn
proYement.
SOIJTHERN STATE LEAGUE