Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-24
THE EAST AND WEST.
Pittsburg's Two Extremes Meet in an
Athletic Exhibition.
FIRST T-CLAss AMATEUR WRESTLING
And Other Excellent Events Bring Out
the Enthusiasm.
THE CRIcKETERs MAKE 4 SCHEDULE

| A large crowd attended the West End
| Gymnastic Club meeting and furnished the
enthusiasm to keep the amateurs working
| with vim. It was an excellent entertain
ment throughout and reflects credit on all
who participated. The East and West End
Gyms worked together nicely, though the
| East Enders had much the better Of it from
the fact that that club has long had a COM
petent instructor to keep them in training.
However, the West End men have no reason
| to feel chagrined at tho result, as in every
event they went down with flying colors
The result will be that enough enthusiasm
will be generated to secure an instructor for
| the West End Club. s4ra
The first event was on the horizontal bars,
| by a class of the East End boys. The class
was Fry, Close. DuBarry, Barr, Musgrave,
Kfrchner. Kimmel and Laying in the giant
swing had the honors, with the others fol-
lowing close. N ga.
-. Club Swinging and Wrestling.
The club swinging of H. c. Frye. Of the E.
e. G. c., was Of character to warrant an
encore, to which he responded with extra
heavy clubs.
In the wrestling bout between NJ. Joyce
and n. Fillinger no time was lost. The lat
ter got both falls, neither requiring moro
than one minute. Both are West End men.
The most amusine event OF the evening,
and the one calling for the most enth usiasm,
was the tug Of war between the married and
single men of the club. Squire Madden cap
tured the single men, and before the event
men brought their wives with them, wen
pull the bloomers or OF them"
But they didn't It was decidedly the oppo-
site. In the first pull the married men won
oSnd the the boassfal Asa Squire III was as ssp ap-
parently trying to hug the married
mems anchor. At least he was over there.
the single men having lost by at least Is
feet.
Prof. Kirchner's Pole Vault.
Prof. Kirchner demonstrated the fact that
he can practice what he breaches, in the
pole vault. at least. He vaulted the. highest
stands the West Enders had, and then two
men stood on chairs and held up the sticks,
giving the Professor a vault Of over nine
Dubarry won the high kick in a fine effort,
making 8 feet inches. j. Friel, of the West
End Gyms. did very well. and would have
M. W. O'Toole, W. Z. G., in club swinging
showed that he has had good training in that
line.
The parallel bar class of the E. e. G. c.,
DuBarry, Fry, Close, Barr, Musgrave,
Hastings. Laying, Kimmel. Morgan and
Professor Kirchner, gave an ex-
tween the East and West Enders. The East
End men won the tug of. war in TWO straight |
pulls, having the advantage over their ad- |
versaries of better training.
A Good Wrestling Bout.
From an artistic standpoint the event of |
the evening was the wrestling match be |
tween F. L. Jamieson, of Allegheny. and an
unknown. The latter is pupil of Jameson
and succeeded in demonstrating that he is
we'll trained by giving his master an exceed
ingly hard tussle.
The unknown won the first fall after hard
work. He is, perhaps, quite as strong, but
does not have the science Of Jameson. The
The second and third falls were won by
but he certainly had to fight for
all he got. He had several half nelson's on
tho unknown, but none seemed to have any
effect until the last fall when that was the
hold that foored Lis man..
There were about, 800 people at the exhi-
bition, and showed their appreciation of the !
efforts of the athletes by generous applause.
The West End men feel some what encour-
aged at the result of the meeting, and will /
doubtless enter the lists of events this !
season with good chances OF winning. There |
Is good material in the club, and should not |
be allowed to waste for want Of training.