ACME ATHLETIC CLUB WILL HOLD ANNUAL REUNION
Members of Club Long Since Out of Existence to Meet at Redwood Canyon.
In automobiles, by train and on foot, former members of the old Acme Athletic Club, which ceased to exist more than 25 years ago, will journey to Canyon Park, Redwood Canyon, today for their fifth annual reunion and barbecue.
Flocking from all parts of the state between 80 and 100 athletes of former
times will gather to talk over the days when John Kitchen, Billie Gallagher and Jim Fox, all members of the club, were heavy, welter and lightweight amateur
boxing champions of the Pacific Coast and when the Bay City Wheeling club was defeated in a 100-mile bicycle relay face from San Francisco to
Oakland.
Those who intend to journey to the park on foot will meet at the Elks
club, 420 Fourteenth street, before 8:30 o'clock. The "E" car will be taken to the end of the line and from there members will hike through Dimond canyon to Snake road
summit and then down the "old road" to Canyon Park.
[This 1923 article about hikes, in the Oakland Tribune refers to "... the end of the Park Boulevard (E)
car line." The wikipedia article says the E line went to the Claremont Hotel. You would not take a
street car to the Claremont Hotel to get to Dimond Canyon. Park Boulevard used to be called 4th Avenue. You can see where it terminates in the 1911 Key Route map, and this would correspond with Park Boulevard and Hollywood Avenue. The "old road" spoken of here is the original Thorn road, built by
Hiram Thorn to move cut redwood lumber from his mill to the wharves of
Oakland. They would have walked up Park Boulevard, then Snake Road to
what's now Huckleberry Botanical Preserve, and then down the "old road," which is now Lower Huckleberry Loop Trail
to Lower Pinehurst trail, to Pinehurst road. This is Hiram Thorn's old
route. On the other side of the hill it's (nothing) to Sobrante road to
Thornhill drive to Mountain Boulevard to Park Boulevard to 13th
Street. - MF]
Club members traveling by train will take the Sacramento Short line train leaving Fortieth street and Shafter at 10:10 a.m. Automobiles can get to Canyon Park via the Snake road.
The Acme Athletic club which at one time numbered 850 members, according
to Willis Sharpe, in charge of the reunion.
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