St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-03-12
AT THE PHOENIX.
The Coming Entertainment-A
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The regular monthly entertainment
of the Phoenix Athletic club will be
held next Thursday evening in the
arena of the club, i'll the Drake block,
on Third street. There has already
been a number of these events, and
each one has been better patroniZed
than the previous one. The members
have come to look upon these affairs as
being enjoyable OCCASIONS, and the full
est meetings of the club are on these
occasions. One thing about these enter
tainments is the fact that there are no
brutal exhibitions permitted by the
management. The contests are all
governed by the rules of propriety,
and nothing occurs in the rooms OF
the club but what could be
seen by the most fastidious member of
society Men of skill are the par
ticipatOrS and the exhibitions are those
of science, not of smuggling. The men,
bers of the club and their friends who
have attended these occasions would be
pleased to take their lady friends and
relatives to the club for the purpose OF
witnessing the entertainments were it
not for the fact that Saturday, which is
denominated children'S day and ladies'
day, is the only day on which the men,
bers of the gentler sex are permitted in
the room OF the club. The next enter
tainment will have a number of novel
features and the exhibitions which have
been arranged for are of a most inter
esting character. There will doubtless
be large attendance at the affair, and
the management of the club will feel
encouraged to advance the sporting in
terestS of the city.
The participants in the entertain
mentS, being men of skill and science in
the art of self-defense. demand consid-
cradle amounts for their exhibitions,
and the club is under great expense on
the occasion of every event. The price
of tickets, however, remains the same,
and the members and their friends are
given the opportunity of seeing series
of events not eXcelled i'll the history of
any club.
Yesterday morning being the occasion
of the instruction OF the boys'class at
the Phoenix club, they were given the
regular United States sword manual as
their exercises. 1t being the first day
of the innovation in their training, only
the rudimentary steps were taken, but
the little fellows will be put through a
thorough course of training in the
sword manual. All of the thrusts,
parties and guards, ETC., will be taught
them, and they will be made proficient
IN all the foot movements. They are
under the instruction of Prot. Lindley,
the teacher of fencing for the club.
There were number of ladies present
yesterday morning, as they desired to
see how the little ones were progressing
in their athletic exercises. They ex-
pressed themselves as being astonished
and pleased at the manner of training,
and they seemed to enjoy the morning
as much as did the little fellows who
were being taught.
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Dick Moore and Fitzpatrick will be
the special card. "FitZ' spared at the
last meeting with Nook Richards, and
if any credence can be given to certain
newspaper criticisms, Richards was
utterly helpless and at the mercy of the
Chicago boy. Still, it must be con-
fessed, that these comments did Rich
ards an injustice, although Fitzpatrick
is certainly very promising young
athlete, and he will give Dick Moore
fully as much trouble as Harry jackson,
the Detroit cyclone, ever could.