Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-01-13

INTEREST AMONG MUSCLE SEEKERS
What is Going on in the Athletic
Circles Of the City.
SOME MING ENTS


life and men Of all sizes. ages and descrip-
tons are exercising Just now The idea
that they are all men of Drawn and muscle
is more popular than accurate, the fact
being that there are a good many of just
the opposite sort. who have taken to the
gymnasiums Tor the winter. One can pick
these out, without trouble. He can easily
recognize the man who has gone in for
athletics. because the doctor said he needed
exercise, and Is accordingly hauling away
at the chest weights with a conscientious
and scrupulous regularity. or pick out the
young fellow sitting comfortably on a Ger
man horse, who has Joined the class Just
because it was the thing.
No age limit Is drawn either, and they
are there from the skinny boned youngster
Of eight or ten years to the man whose
hair is white with time. Some of your ac-
quaintances bob up in surprising fashion,
and YOU are astonished to see your banker
or solid business man, whom you have only
met before in a high silk hat and wearing
an expansive gold watch chain, appear on
the hoor of the gymnasium in a jaunty and
scanty rig of tights. trying to turn a hand
spring on the mats. or running around the
track to reduce his girth. They are not all
athletes who attend a gymnasium by any
means.
The Catholic Club.
The Young Mems Catholic Club is in
creasing all around. At the last regular
meeting all but twenty of the whole number
OF members were present. and the new ad-
ministration will start in I'm earnest as soon
as President Brennan appoints his stand
Ing committees for the ensuing six months
The officers. together with the ten addition
al members Of the board 10 be elected to-
morrow morning. will constitute the board
of governors until next July. This election
should nave taken place last Sunday. but
owing to the large number of candidates
IN the Held the election was postponed.
Twenty-Five names have been posted on
the bulletin board as nominees. only ten of
which will be chosen.
The Dramatic Society of the club has re-
ceived many congratulations for the sue
cess attained In giving the play My Ger
aldine. and has now developed into a per-
manent Organization with officers as fol-
lows; President. NJ. F. Halloran; vice pres
ident, T. j. Ready; secretary, J. c. Sulli-
van: treasurer, ]. ]. Mccarthy; librarian,
a: :: senwsrtz. and property man. T: a:
Fitzgerald Regular meetings will be held
each Wednesday, and ladies will be ad-
mitted 20 membership. The cast in My
Geraldine" were given a banquet last Tues
day evening by the entertainment commit
tee of the club. Addresses were made by
President Brennan and F. w. Van Reuth.
recitations were given and the evening
was concluded with a sumptuous spread"
The orchestra, under. the leadership of
Prof. Hama, has proven a great addition
to the club. Their music at the compli-
mentary dance given last Monday was one
Of the features Of the entertainment. and
Mr.. e. p. Schwartz can well be coneratu-
lated on his success In its organization.
The gymnasium of the club has been so
much filled lately with plays. dancing and
the like that the athletic practice has been
somewhat broken In upon. An instructor
is yet to be decided upon.
An Athletic Exhibition.
Prof. Sims OF the Young Mems Christian
Association Is putting his best foot for
ward to make the coming exhibition on the
oath an unusual success. Basket ball and
nearly everything else has been Temporal
lily abandoned. over fifty persons win fig
ure in the exhibition and the program will
include a musical dumb bell drill by the
boys, wrestling by DIR. Cockerill and Mr..
and Mellach. exercises on the parallel and
horizontal bars and tumbIing by Koran.
Morseil. Lung, Dehl and Others. club
swinging by Ferguson. and other attrac-
tons not yet completed. There will also
be a tug of war between the base ball and
foot ball teams.
The largest number that have exercised
in the gymnasium this season were in at
tendance last Monday 1870 being present in
all. The baseball team is practicing for
next summer now. The chess players of
the association are now hard at work for
the several match games to take place
shortly, and the footoallists are already be-
ginning to look about them, and set their
joints for next season.
At the c. A. G.
Over at the Columbia Athletic Club, Prof
Crossley is making things red hot in view
of the coming exhibition, and he is keep
ing every one on the jump to do better even
than his best. Prof. Crossley says that II
there are no accidents the show will sur
pass anything the club has done before
and some feats will be introduced which
Washington has never seen. There will be
exercises On parallel bars, flying rings three
sets of acrobatics. sparring, a fencing bout
wrestling, double trapeze swinging Roman
ladders and pyramids. The latter two feat
ures will be novelties. In the pyramids the
first row will be Thomas Bevans, Il. Nolan
VIII Mooney. Frank and Adam Johnson
Grabs and Oscar Carter; the middle row
will be Sewall, j. r.. Elder. Percy Thomp-
son. Craig. Watts. Mederia, shreeve and
H. Gould; and the top mounters will be
Ross, Bowl and Dickson. Nolan will hold
the Roman ladders, which will be some
thing very attractive when worked up into
perfect shape.
The ten-pin tournament of the club has
begun, and after It Is finished a cocked-hat
tournament viii be on the bills. A ten-pin
match has also been arranged with the
Carleton Bowling Club OF Brooklyn, the
games to be played on the 9th of this
month with the clubs league team.
At Other Clubs.
Tug-of-war teams have been organized at
the Orient Athletic Club on Capitol Hill.
and contest will be arranged for in the
near future. The first team. which has been
in practice for time. is made up of Stew
ard, as anchor. and Moser. Davis and Flu
gift.
The officers of the Orients for the COM
ing year are Henry p. Blair. president: A.
P. schell. vice president; Horace b. Durant.
secretary, and A. E. Glascock, treasurer
Charles b. Stewart, Thomas A. Alton ana
Victor A Braunstein have been elected to
the board of managers
The dramatic club OF Carroll Institute
will give an entertainment in the institute
hall, on Monday evening. February 5. The
annual dinner of the institute will be given
on the evening Of shrove Tuesday, Febru-
Rry6
Charles G. Leland L. Not Inauisttfve.
From the Chicago Post.
Charles Godfrey Leland declares that he
hates inquisitiveness with a hatred only
equal to that which he reserves for ,.,ssin