FORM A NATIONAL SPORTING CLUB

This country is at last is to have a national sporting club that should equal in prominence the famous sporting club in London. The site of this new International Sporting Club, as it will be called, has been selected in New York, on Lexington Avenue between Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth streets. The principal use of the club will be to stage the biggest boxing bouts that can be secured for the United States.

Behind the organization are men of great sporting prominence and the plans call for the finest structure of this kind that has ever been erected. According to the estimates of the architect, the building will cost more than $1,000,000, and will contain training facilities beside the great arena which will seat 34,500 people.

No seats on the ring floor will be more than 48 feet from the ring and all supporting columns and obstructions have been removed. Five nights in each week elimination bouts will be held in all the different classes of boxing championships and one night a week will be reserved for the championship bouts. One night in each month there will be an international or a national match of importance.

The several committees of the club will join together to force new boxing rules to supplant the Marquis of Queensberry code which has proved inadequate for modern needs. These rules when finally adopted will be known as the International Rules. As six of the seven world championships are held by America, it is only right and proper that she should have the credit for framing and initiating the new code.