St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-23
fEUTONS IN FORCE.
Great Display Given by Active
Turner's at the Fair
Grounds.
The Official Results Of Com
petitions Withheld Un-
til To-Day.
Market Hall Crowded to the
Doors at the Ball Last
Evening.
Actives Will To-Day Join the
Passives in a Convivial
Wind-Up.

The active exercises of the Turnkreis
came to an end last night. There only
remains the awarding of prizes to-day.
and successful meeting will come to a
close. The ''activeS" may now enjoy
privileges that have only been enjoyed
by the passives, their friends and the
thousands of citizens of the Twin Cities
who have atteneed the exercises. 1t
has been to the latter four days of de-
light, while to the actives it has been
four days of exceedingly hard work.
PleaSurable work it has been, however,
and the enjoyment has approached the
limit.
To-day will be entirely given up to
amenities, as will be noted in the pro-
gramme which appears in another place.
1t was all ideal day for turning. The
sun. While bright, was not scorching,
and a refreshing breeze sprevailed
throughout the day. The attendance,
spires men to utmost physical and skilled
teats. Yet there was a fairly large
audience, and the increased interest and
enthusiasm nearly compensated for the
lack of numbers.
The aD0minable street car service mil
Itated seriously against large attend
Rnce. The people who had been victims
of the series of accidents ON the street
car line the previous day were
chary about placing themselves in
a like predicament yesterday. And
there were no railroad facilities. The
trains that did 90 between the fair
grounds and the city were decidedly
wayward, and long waits were necessi-
tated at either end of the line. Yet
some three thousand braved these an
nOyances to witness the mOStintereSting
event of the sort ever offered in the
state, and this number might easily
have been swelled to from 10000 to 90
900 from the two cities, had the street
cars afforded proper transportation fa-
eilitieS. This Is the concensus of Opin-
Ion, and expressions of that trend were
heard on every hand, both in town and
at the fair grounds yesterday.
10 the average people, those not fa-
miliar with the technique of turning
Dalesthenics, yesterdays was the most
most interesting programme of the
meeting. 1t was devoted to individual
contests, and it was of a more diversi-
fed character than on the previous day.
There were turning on the horizontal
bars, on the parallel bars, putting the
stone, jumping in the various styles,
wrestling, climbing and vaulting.
There is an array that should find some
feature that should please anyone, and
the enthusiasm with which each sue
ceeding event was greeted bore testi-
mony to the fact that they all pleased
the crowd. The general regret is that
the turnkreist is so soon over.
An awakened interest has been Gre
ated by the meeting, and it is perfectly
safe to predict that the societies of Min
nesota will now be imbued with new
life and energy and that the member
ship of "actives" will be multiplied in
the near future. 1t has beenshown that
the Minnesota boys are in it with their
Eastern brothers in feats of agility.
skill, endurance and Drawn. Some of
the best prizes stay right here in the
two cities. There is William Miller, of
st. Paul. for illustration. who won the
long high jump; Adolph Stamwitz who
defeated everybody In putting the shot
and in the hop, skip and jump, and
William Buscher, of st. Paul, who
threw everybody who contested him in
Gr3coROman wrestling. How many
more Minnesota champions the Turn
krist has brought out nothing but the
final award to-day will reveal, for the
judges absolutely refuse to give any in
formation on that point.