Los Angeles herald., 1892-04-27
ACTIVE ATHLETES.
A FINE EXHIBITION OF SINEW,
BRAWN AND MUSCLE.
The Los Angeles Athletic Club Gives Il
Highly Successful Entertainment.
Particulars of the Contests.

| The annual exhibition of the Los An.
geles Athletic club in Harry Wyatt's
theater last evening was a thorough
success in every respect, and credit to
the organization. The audience was
large, and consisted of the very best
people in the city. The performance 6
were throughout excellent technically
and interesting. and everyone of the
spectators went home pleased with the
evening entertainment. Professor Bess-
ing, the athletic instructor OF the club,
and Prof. William Shannon, the boxing
teacher, have every reason to be proud
of the results OF their endeavors. The
assistance OF such men as Mr.. Schuster,
champion all-round athlete of the
Olympic club of San Francisco, helped
greatly to making the exhibition as per-
feet as it was. Mr.. Schuster is an ideal
performer on the parallel and horizontal
bars, and accomplished some of the
most difficult feats with the utmost ease
and grace.
The fret number on the programme
was an exhibition OF horizontal bar ex-
erclses performed by E. K. Blades, H.
Williams, Louis Nordlinger, J. D. Slim
son, Andy Campbell and Ludro Kinney.
Their work throughout was commenda-
BILE, while the exhibition of special
fancy feats of Mr.. Schuster brought
round upon round of applause. Louis
Nordlinger distinguished himself by
showing exercises requiring strength.
The GrBco Roman wrestling boats
between Paul Flammer and Quincy
Spalding formed as graceful contest as
can well be imagined. This style of
wrestling is in itself the most attractive
to witness, inasmuch as it brings forth
the utmost muscular activity as we'll as
astute generalship. Both men showed
themselves to be experts at this form of
contest and divided the honors evenly,
Each took fall.
The wrestling bouts were separated by
a tumbling act by Fay Stephenson,
Frank and Fred Alter and Will Allen,
who. barring little slowness, were the
equals of the best professionals.
Sam B. Dewey and F. Z. Liddell
spared three rounds for scientific
points. Dewey proved himself the more
capable at the offensive, while Liddell
made some beautiful stops. Both men
are wonderfully quick at ducking under
blows.
The torch-swinging by R. E. Lock-
wood, w. McStay, sam Peterson. w.
Cochran, J. 7. Wooster and j. I. Cherry
was not as effective as it might have
been, because the stage was not dark
enough. The work was very good, con-
siderlng the poor aid to rhythm afforded
by the orchestra.
T. j. Osgood and HI. L. Heffner
wrestled two bouts in the collar and
elbow style. They displayed plenty of
science with their legs, and each cap
tured fall
The fencing bout between A. G. Way
and T. B. Emery was one-sided affair,
Way showing himself by far superior to,
his antagonist with the tolls.
A dozen or go of young ladies in
fluffy white gowns and silver girdles
twirled pretty little Indian clubs in
their pink fingers, and demonstrated
that under the tutelage OF Professor
Bessing they have acquired great grace
of motion, if one might dare to presume
that they had not always possessed it.
The ladies were enthusiastically en-
cored.
A number not in the programme was
the Silence and Fun act by Rinaldo and
Chapman. The acrobatic antics of
these two india rubber men were side
splitting. Some of the feats were re-
markable, such, for example, as Chap
mans high kicking.
The erarring bout of three rounds be-
tween Jim w. Winston and Prof. w. E.
Shannon was lively throughout. Both
men are very hard hitters, and "Billy"
Shannon once more showed his great
dexterity with the dukes. He had it
pretty nearly his own way with his big
and handsome opponent.
The rest of the programme consisted
of pyramids with and without ladders,
and heavy dumb-bell exercise by the
Samsons of the club. The participants
in these numbers were as follows:
Pyramids, ladders, under supervision
Of Prof. Theodore Bessing-J.S S. Thayer,
r. @. Hall, @. +. Pepper, j. D. Stimp-
son, H. Dennis, D. G. McGarvin, w.
Jenkins, w. Manning.
Pyramids, right group-R. E. Lock-
wood, w. Cochran, J. A. Jevne, j. II.
Cherry, N. Biehl, W. McStay.
Pyramids, left group-W. +. Ken
nedy, s. P. Hensley, Quincy Spalding,
G. V. Howard, A. Guthrie, Sam Peter
son, w. Taylor.
Heavy dumbells-Paul Flammer, J..
W. Winston, @. Spalding.
A grand tableau closed the evenings
entertainment.