The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-07-30
THE TURNER'S big DAY.
Interesting and Picturesque
Scenes on tho Grounds,
CONTESTS FOR THE PRIZES
Hy Individuals and dClasscs...Hcuuti.
ful Exhibition OF Wand Excr.
ciscs by all tho Turner's. u
Concert Last Evening.

Yesterday, though nominally the soc.
ona day Of the thirteenth annual Be.
zirks funniest Of the Pittsburgh dis.
iticl, really opened the fest proper. It
was n busy day for the Turner's, The
only drawbacks were the heavy rain
which interrupted the exercises In the
afternoon. and the fact that the people
Of the city, generally did not appreciate
tho attraCtiveness OF the exercises,-,The
same skill and agility, the same pictur-
csque performances, under circus can.
vas, would pack the biggest tent ever
Barnum owned, while yesterday not
thousand auditors were present ali told
This is not as It should be, but the peo.
p!e who missed the exercises were tho
grratest los,rJ. ! =, -
The Turner's who were to tako part In
the contests were furnished with cots in
tho Main Exposition building at The
State Fair Ground, but this was a mere
matter Of form. Nobody slept there. II
anybody showed disposition to sleep.
the others resented it, and hubbub
was kept up which, had it been in
cemetery. would have walked the dead.
In the hospital tent, inside the race
course, several visiting members Of the
press slept. They did sleep, the fresh
air and stiffness conducting to yery
sound repose.
All We're awake early yesterday morn.
ing. At g o'clock breakfast was served
on the ground. Good, substantial food
was furnished in abundance, aud the
way it disappeared spoke volumes for
the vigorous lives the young athletes
lead. The meals are spread in tue airy
and neat new building west OF the main
hall. which is very well suited for the
purpose. Breakfast was taken to the
accompaniment Of lively air BY the
Opera House band. by the time It was
finished, many outsiders from town had
arrived on tho ground to witness the ex-
ercisee.
THE MORNING EXERCISES.
At Z o'clock the Opera House band
took its place in the band stand, and the
active Turner'S, numbering 100, marched
down from the breakfast hall and into
the space Tor the exercises, where Turn
Teacher D. NJ. +. krosh put them
through tho mass wand exercises TO
music. Tho exercise was rehearsed
TWICE, to the great pleasure OF the
audience.
AT o'clock the individual turning for
prizes began. The judges for this class
were +. Schmidt, Ed. Geiselhart, ALLIE
gheny; Martin Elbert and Charles HoH.
mann; Johnstown; Joseph Kramer,
Richard Mirzwar, Theodore Arthelm
and Ernst Nickel, Central, Pittsburgh;
John Hesse, Steubenville; Ernst Herk-
latz, Charles Hoffman, and W. Oster-
walt, Mckeesport; II. Etling, Joseph
simmens, W. Oesterreich, South Side,
Pittsburgh; J. PETE. East Liverpool; @.
g. Biehrig, Allentown; W. Metz, Man
chester; L. Fuchs and A. Nathan,
Lawrenceville; F. Eyer and Franz Leg
leitner, Birmingham.
In these exercises the following Turn
ers took part: Il. Schubert, Wheeling;
J. Brenn, II. Conrad, Christ Hamm, 4.
M. Ponnie, H. Noll and A. Arthelm, OF
the Central Verein, Pittsburgh; William
Edward, Otto Feist, William Rack,
George Leo, Of tho Germania, steuben-
vile; Charles Goeber, Johnstown:
George Hueber and F. Koch, Birming-
ham; Carl Ammon. G. Simmer, Conrad
Auel, +. Simmer, August Ternan, South
Side, Pittsburgh; II. Doris, Fl. Fuchs,
William Koch, Il. Opperman, William
Raab, Eugene Meyer, Johnstown; Her
mann Schambra and Christian Scham-
bra, Wheeling.
The exercises in which they contested
were the high jump, long Jump, hop,
step and jump and throwing weight.
In the high jump, I. Koch make s
feet 9 inches. In the long leap, F. Koch
made IS feet. The longest hop, step and
jump was made by J. Bremen, 81 feet.
In throwing The weights F. Koch made
II feet and 9. inches.
The second group contested in long.
high jump, vaulting with the pole,
climbing the rope and lifting weights.
In this class were W. +. Sadler, Wheel.
ing; W. Feist, Ed. Feist, G. Hultery,
William Racke, George Leo, O. Feist,
Steubenville; Joseph Orschler, Pitts
burgh; +. Goebert and William Koch,
Johnstown; F. Koch, Birmingham; !;
Andreas Auel, +. Simmer, G. Simmer,
A. Ternan, South Side, Pittsburgh,
Nlessrs. Wolf, Wentzel and Kugel, OF
the Pittsburgh Central.
F. Koch climbed 81 feet high on the
rope. lie lifted ll3 pounds fifteen
timep, and leaped 6 feet high and feet
inch long, and with the pole 8 feet s
inches.
TIE CLASS TURNING.
The individual turning was followed
by wand and other exercises by classes,
which had but barely begun when the
dinner hour arrived, Dinner over, the