Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-05-27
ADJUSTMENTS.

(! The Sacramento Athletic Club entertain.
ment and ladies' night at the Met.
ropolitan Theater last night. was
not one-third so well attended
as it deserved The young men will mel
nothing from it, barely meeting expenses. II
was from beginning to end a thoroughly
good performance. Very many more pre-.
tentlous organizations have drawn crowded
houses at higher prices to witness less meri.
torious entertainments.
| That there were q number of other en-
tertainments last night may have had
something to do with the light patronage
given to the club. 1t would seem that
there is fatality about local entertain.
ments here-for if one is announced. the
chances are that it will be met with Others
on the same evening, though a week before
and after there will be dearth of amuse-
! ments.
| Elwood Bruner, one of the Directors of
| the club, presided and stated to the audi
ence what the club had done and purposed
doing. 1t has fitted up as large and as fine
| gymnasium as there is west of the Mis-
sissippi, with a single exception. 1t has
enrolled large number of young men in
| the club. 1t has established a Juvenile
class. 1t has two competent salaried in
| structors; it has awakened strong interest
In physical training and systematic con-
! servatlon OF bodily development and
| health.
He said that its Quitting expense had
been heavy, but the club was about to go
to further expense in the gymnasium. 1t
| therefore wanted more members, and the
exhibition OF last night was given to show
| what line progress the club membership
had made in ten months and to induce
others to join. To further interest the
people and enlist their sympathies, the
gymnasium is to be open free, day and
evening, all this week, and the club earn
estly invites the people, men, women and
children, to visit the rooms early or late,
during the week.
The programme was varied and very in
teresting, and, as already said, thoroughly
good and entertaining 1t began with
| artistic groupings by the classes selected for
the evening" double horizontal bars, by ].
g. Mansfield and Arthur Arnold, with Pro-
lessor Godefroy as clown; Indian club
swinging from a pedestal, by AL Klein
sorge; wrestling, Greco Roman style, by
II. J. Hillebrand and VIM. Flint; catch
as-catch-can wrestling, by Robt. Alexander
and Mr.. Campbell; grouping of the Pier
rots, by the juvenile class, consisting of l..
Nathan, T. Hill, ]. Bauer, Geo. Newbert,
Willie Dorsey, Monte Newbert, George
Short, E. Johnson, E. Goa, J. Crosby, J.
Morris, John Sherburn boxing, Professor
Thos. Dwver VS.. Geo. Littlefield, William
johnson VS.. John O'Neill, Charles Bauer
vs.. Henry Rubenstein, and the champions
of the juvenile class, the Newbert brothers:
double trapeze, Mansfield and Arnold !:
I'm Moment Terrible grotesque gym
nastic and acrobatic exhibition, by In
structor Godefroy, Frank Whitmore and
Dexter Dunpby; leaping, Arthur Arnold,
j. q. Mansfield, VIM. Flint, II. ]. Hille-
brand, John Heaney, Adam Bergman,
Frank Whitmore, Robert Alexander Pro-
fessor G. Godefroy, and Masters E. john
son, Monte Newbert, Geo. Newbert.
The trapeze and horizontal bar perform.
ances of Messrs. Mansfield and Arnold are
entitled to first place in consideration for
grace and athletic skill, and the grotesaue
acrobatic exercises of Godefroy, White
more and Dunphy stand second. The
comedy credit must be awarded to the
juvenile class in its posings and pyramid
building. The wrestling was notably
good and won hearty applause, and the
boxing was genteel exhibition of training
OF hand and arm to guard the face and
body from attack and to make assault
when necessary.
Such critical notice of the individual
performances as is deserved exigencies of
space forbid at this time. 1t must suffice
to repeat that there was nothing weak,
nothing ordinary, but all was superior
indeed surnriSinplv so