The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-12-22
THE SPORTING WORLD
Exciting Contest Between the
Tug.of-War Teams
WITNESSED BY A LARGE CROWD
The Italians, Americans, Norwegians, Danes
and Irish the Winners-PersonneI Of
the Teams-NOtes.

About three hundred friends of the con :
testants in the big tug-of-war tournament
assembled at Walkers pavilion last even
ing to witness the practice tugs between
the various teams, and they were reward
ed by seeing some rare sport.
The first pull was between the Scotch,
captained by David Keller, and the Ital-
ians, captained by Joseph Corrao. The tug
was limited to fifteen minutes, and was
very exciting. For the first five minutes
neither team scored any decided advant-
age. Then slowly, but surely, the indi-
Gator commenced gliding over to the Isal-
ian side. The finish was desperate one.
The brawny Scots made every effort to get
the rope back, but every time Captain
Corrao cried "Tird tuttd la coredd' ten pairs
Of black eyes flashed their response, and
the Italians would try like demons. When
the gong sounded the Italians had a couple
OF feet of rope to their credit.
Then the ten big Englishmen under
Captain E. b. Reynolds were sent up TO
pull against the American giants under
Captain Lange. 1t was hard and ex-
citing pull and was won by the Americans,
largely through their captains splendid
management.
The Germans, under Captain Jasper,
then pulled against the Norwegians, under
Captain Bonnerud, and it proved to be q
very close contest. Both teams worked
hard and responded nobly to the
calls OF their captains. Every
nehmt es iUeg," Bonnerud yelled '.Dra
Guitar" and when the gong sounded the
end, the Norwegians had considerable the
best of it.
The Swedes, who had previously pulled
among themselves, were then called up by
Captain Ecklund to pull with the Danes,
unoer Captain Peterson.
This was the closest tug of the evening,
the men pulled for quarter of an hour,
each urged to do its uttermost by cries Of
Ar du fertdiOf 1rdk Tysherne" from Cap
tain Peterson, and "Drd Gossar" from
Captain Ecklund. The Danes had little
the best of il.
The last tug was between the Irish team,
under Captain Ed Fitzgerald, and ten
picked men, representing the flower Of all
the other teams, under Captain LANCE.
Fitzgerald proved himself to be splendid
captain, and the way the gallant sons of
Erin hauled in the rope q: the start made
Manager Levey's eyes stand out ON his
ton and got back some OF the rope, but
the freshmen had the advantage.
After the practice, the captains held q
meeting with the management, disposed of
considerable business.an expressed entire
approval OF the management.
THE TEAMS.
Each team is composed OF ten men. a
captain and three reserves. The teams are
made up as follows:
American-Charles LANCE, captain
Harry Ford, Harry Curran, c. Worthing,
ton, A. Peterson, Nj. ]. Salmon, r. G.
Taylor, H. r. Poulk. Harvey Carlyle. Nj.
j. Sullivan, w. 5. Deeds, William Niemyr,
John Edmondson, d. A. Sullivan.
Norwegisn-Ole Bonnerud, captain
John Peterson, Peter Stromness, L. S
Larsen, P. Stromner, w. Anderson.
Charley Anderson, E. Stromner. OLAF
ngebretson, Nj. Anderson, Karl Stromuer.
Olaf Hagen, Magnus Hanson, Olaf Larson
Engiish-E. b. Rynolds, captain; Charles
Gates, William Black, Fred futile, VIII
liam Haywood, Jack Jurr, Thomas Win
ters, John Powell, Joseph Simms, William
Franklin, David Timmons, John White
Owen Spears, David Fullmer.
Swedes-Al Eklund, captain; John Wall
Andrew Samuelson, 9. E. Carlson, J. p
Bachman, Gus Lundine. AL Swensen. Ed
Miller, Ed MalQuist, j. p. Swensen.
Charles Kempe.
Scotch-David 7. Keller, captain; Hugh
Watson, John Watson, William Watson,
Alex Watson, James D. Watson, John e.
Smith, Heber Mackey, Andy Dickson.
John FORESTER, Bob Skinner, John Mckay.
A. D. Burt, Peter Condie.
German-H. F. Jasper, captain.
Danish-George Peterson, captain; Her
man Peterson, Jens Peterson, Charles
Peterson, Jens p. Peterson. Christian
Bach, j. a. Jensen, S. N. SorensoI, M
Thomson, Liels Boiedahl. Ole Jensen,
Andrew Mollerup, Carl Ander,
sen, John Hansen, Christian Hansen,
Christian Roepke, Christian Schmohl.
Frank Kay, Fred Bumiller, Fred Linse'
Fred Escher, Fred Springurman, Henry
Mehler, Henry Slender, Fred Brandt.
Gustav Hardin, Albert Boehm, Charlie,
Muller.
Italian-Joseph Corrao, captain; Luigi
Parcino, M. Cater, Joseph Fijliolo. Cres.
senze Dorce, Charles Virgelion, Luigi
Vicenzi, Bartolomes Rubbsnno, D. Emilis.
Domenico Peduzzi, Charles Morsno.
The roster of the Irish team could not be
obtained last night, but will be published
in the morning,
1t is more than likely that Captain
Phelan, late sergeant of police at Washing
lngton, and Prof. Andre will cross foils.
Both gentlemen are fine swordsmen, and a
bout between them would prove very in
terestlng. Should meeting be arranged,
1t will doubtless take place at the rooms of
the Francis club on West Temple street
The HERALD has been requested TO an.
nounce the record made BY the Teutonic,
August, 1891. The distance run was 2. RS
miles; tines days. 16 hours, 81 minutes
Average per hour, 20.349.
NOTES.
Nearly all of the teams will weigh 200
POUNDS.
The italian is the lightest team, and the
American the heaviest.
Keep your eye on the big Scots. They
are after the championship and are lillely
to ges 1t.
The Italians are in it, and in long pull
are likely to come out first best.
Captain Lange's American boys are al
fine specimens of manhood, and pull with
great dash.
Al Ecklund is not letting his team out
yet. They will be heard from later.
Those Danish Petersons are great peo
pie, and so are the Scotch Watsons.
Hereafter only those holding tickets will
be admitted 10 the practice pulls
Mackey, of the Scotch team, took the
foot rest last night.
Hugh Watson, the anchor Of the Scotch
team, tips the beam at 242 pounds.
The heaviest men in the various teams
are Italian, Charles Morano 2l0; German,
Fred Fischer, 230, Norwegian, L. S. Lar
sen, 1876; English, ]. Jure, 2O6; Swede
Charles Kempe, 100; Scotch, Hugh Watson
242; Danes, h. Peterson, 1879.
The teams will all parade on THURSDAY
afternoon and the tug will open Christina,
eve.