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Show Historic Olympic Arena Definitely Dropped Out of the Big Picture Harlem's historic old Olympic club, in East One Hundred and Thirty-fifth street, has definitely passed out of the picture as a fight arena. Its chairs, benches and ring were sold to J. Lewis, of Brooklyn, for $227 to satisfy a judgment judg-ment of $2,640 obtained by Mrs. Olga E. Hilliard, the owner, for unpaid rent. It was there that John Lester Johnson John-son broke his ribs. Freddie Welsh and Johnny Kilbane appeared on the same card there when both were champions, and it was there that Benny Leonard so quickly knocked out Leo Johnson. The Frawley law was in effect when the late John the Barber Iteisler started start-ed promoting at - Olympia, and the squatty brick building since has been known as the Palace Casino, Harlem, Commonwealth and Walker club. Tom McArdle, Jess McMahon and Al Weill made matches there. The Olympia club was being operated operat-ed by McMahon when it succumbed to the current boxing slump. It is to be leased as a garage. The first regularly organized minor league began its career In 18S3. The cities represented were Reading, Pa. ; Tottsville, Pa. ; Harrisburg, Pa. ; Camden, Cam-den, N. X, and Wilmington, Del. The name of the circuit was the Interstate Inter-state Baseball association and Its life was less than two years. Robert Ems-lie, Ems-lie, now on the advisory board of National Na-tional league umpires, began his career ca-reer in organized ball In this circuit. Gilliland, a southpaw hurler with the New Haven club of the Eastern league In 1892, bit 15 batsmen in two consecutive games and this record stands as the best up to this moment. Maj. Ralph Sasse, coach of the West Point Military academy football team, couldn't play the game well enough to earn a varsity letter while he was a cadet. Baseball is less affected by depression depres-sion than any other form of entertainment. entertain-ment. The late Ban Johnson frequent' ly observed that baseball attendances never fell off during unemployment periods, pe-riods, but had even been known to increase. in-crease. The explanation advanced was that job seekers found it useless to seek employment In the late afternoon after-noon ; and those still in funds preferred pre-ferred to attend the ball game to doing do-ing nothing. King Tut, Minneapolis welterweight sensation, is unlike most boxers In that he does not need a round or two to warm up. Opponents say that Tut is toughest in the first three minutes of a bout. His record shows 13 knockouts knock-outs scored In the first stanza. Steve Farrell, retired track coach at the University of Michigan, raced in a circus when a youth, daily beating beat-ing a horse around the sawdust ring, |