Show OMAHAS ATHLETIC CLUB Three Leading Officers of a Hustling Sport lug Organization Omaha boasts of her baseball team and well may sho do so Omaha boasts of her Gate City Athleticclub also an organization of a very high order It is there that the young and middle aged men of the city are wont to congregate to see brawn and muscle and to witness scientific exhibitions of the manly art The club is provided with every invention for the development of muscle such as boxing box-ing gloves Indian clubs a rowing apparatus sandbags kicking pans trapeze bars ladders lad-ders etc In tho middle of the room is a 24 foot ring in which very many exciting contests have taken place Among the well known sports who s have figured fig-ured in f these contests con-tests are Jack D avis a-vis Colora EHKEXNY dos champion cham-pion Jack Ryan who carries tho belt of the > northwest land l-and John WAGNER r P Clow who at one time was considered the coming ones MCORMICK man As most prominent members of the club may be mentioned Charles McCormick president who never misses a chance to benefit ben-efit the club Ho is an enthusiastic lover of all sports and is tho owner of a fine string of blooded horses W E Wagner tho secretary of the institution insti-tution known as Sporty Bill is very popular pop-ular among the boys He spends a good deal of time in tho gymnasium and is quite an athlete Ho is very handy with tho gloves and although not herculean in physique he can keep his opponent on the jump most of the time James Kilkenny the manager is a true sport and an able instructor He is a splendid splen-did boxer and has had many a setto with prominent western amateurs Tho club numbers seventysir members |