Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1889-05-17

The entertainment given by the Warren
Annette Club at the Opera House last
evening was we'll attended and proved a
success In every rspect. The perform
ance opened with exhibitions of pyramid
forming, the first row being composed of
the following: George Barney, John
Lockard, Cha les II. Simmons, Hairy L,
Virtue, Elmer Booth Edward Crossley
and j. q. Spoerl The second tier were
the following: George Hoirecker, Maurice
Baob, Homer &. Simmons, J Joseph Daley,
John Mcfarland and Williom Spoer'.
The pyramid was very pretty effect and
showed that the young athletes were well
tralncd for the performance.
Howard q. Simmons and Maurice Babb
gave an interesting tumbling exhibition.
The iaucy club swinging by John II. Nc
Coy of the Warren Club was well done,
aud proved him to be au expert.
| The barrel and maltese cross spinning
OF Thomas Guthrie, of the Warren CLUB,
and the character impersonations OF
John Mills, of Philadelphia, were well
done, rs was also the tumhling done by
Joh1 Y. Cooper ard Alfred Davidson, OF
the Warren Club.
The tug OF war contests were highly
Interesting and thoroughly enjoyed by the
audience. The first was between two
teams OF heavy weights composed of C..
u, simmons (anchOr), B. l.. Spence. A.
W. Griffith, e. H.. Tri9gs and H. l..
Virtue (anchoI), J. q. Spoerl, E. b.
Crossley and s. a, Bott. Virtues side
won by 2 inches. The teams OF light
weights were: w. NJ Chandler, Jr,
(anchorl, II. c. simmons, Rlmer Booth,
Samuel Penrose and j. I. Cooper Gan
chOr), Samuel Jones, Lewis Mccall and
William Spoerl. Cooper's tidc pulled
their opponents inches.
This closed the first part of the pro-
Rramme, and the seconi opened with a
sparrlng match between Frank Boulden
and Horace Mcdaniel of the Warren
Club, of which three roun Is were given.
This was followed by three-round 20
between II. W. 5chlichter and G. W.
Coane OF the Athletic Club OF the Schuyl-
kill Navy. The wrestling proved one OF
the attractive features OF the evening, as
the Athletic Club OF The Schuylkill Navy
sent some OF their best men. The round
between Charles Mclnnes of the A. G. 8.
NJ, and Professor Booth, instructor to
that club, was won by the latter In z
minutes and 40 seconds
| W. II. Recap, of the A. c. 8. N, and I.
). Wilton, of the same club, also had
tnTtc-Ibunu cOItthlt HHlCn WIS lOlIOWeu
by a bout between L. f. Walker, cham
pion light weight OF tine Un ted States,
member Of the A. q. 3. ~, and Walter
Campbell, the instructor of the club.
a wrestling match between Professor
Booth an j. b. Sloan, of the a. q. 8. n,
resulted in favor Of the former in o min
utes and 80 seconds.
ln wrestling ID. l.. Chesterman, OF the
A G. $. N, threw james Wildiug, Of the
Watren Club, IN minutes. The wrest-
ling match between j. B, Reilly, cham
pion amateur bantam weight OF the
United States, and j. f. o., onnell, OF
the A. Z. S. N, was won by Reilly. The
evenings entertainment concluded by a
lively three round go between Tony
Stannard aud Charles Jones OF Philadel
phia.
William F. Kur WIS master of Ger .
monies, and ~ tho close oi the entertaiL-
mcnt those who had participated and the
repre- rtsentativts of the press were taken to
Willis restaurant, where tupper wsf
served after which speech was made
Dy IGPtain Armstrong.