The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-25
STATE FUNNIEST CLOSES.
NEW HAVEN TAXES ONLY THE
 THIRD PRIZE.


 The state turnfest at Waterbury closed yesterday. The parade formed In the morning on Scovlll street and passed through all of the principal streets The American band. Hellmanns drum corps. the fine marching of the Hiber- nian rifles. with the neat uniforms and handsome banners of the societies all contributed 10 make the parade an ob- ect of much admiration. Mayor Kilduff reviewed the procession as 1t passed the city hall. The dumb bell exercises on the green proved of much interest and Were witnessed by large number William Hellmann acted as grand mar shal of the parade, with Fred Schlipp and Chris Pfudcrer as aids
 The picnic drew an unusually large | crowd. and interest was centered in the dicsion of the judges of the athlet- ic contests. The following is the sum mary: Class competition-First Wa terbury, 2795; second. Holyoke, 27.52; third. New Haven, 272s; fourth. Meri- den, 23.76; fifth, Bridgeport 23.59; sixth. Hartford, 232O; seventh, New Britain. 23.16.
 Individual all round gymnastic and athletic competitions-First. F. Werlich, New Haven, 65: second, c. Stach, Hol- yoke, G2.75; third, R. Probst, Waterbury, G1 ,G5; fourth, A. Halhnger. New Haven. Gl.50: fifth, K. Frank, Holyoke, 5705; sixth, F. Schlessel, New Haven, 54.5S; seventh, c. Richter Holyoke, 53.52; seventh J. Reichel, New Haven, 51.75,
 First group of field events-First, R. Probst, Waterbury, 2S; second, A. Hal finger, New Haven, 241s; third, K. Frank, Holyoke, 24.
 Second group-First, II. Suessenguth, Holyoke. 33; second, F. Sattler, Hol- yoke, 30; third, J. Rechel, New Haven, and R. Probst, Waterbury, tied, 26.
 Wrestling-Heavyweight, first, H. Suessenguth, Holyoke; second, L. Glas- tre, Waterbury; third R. Betzer, Hart ford. Lightweight. first, R. Dittman, Meriden; second, N. Seussenguth, Hol- yoke.
 Fencing-First, E. Werlich; second, J. Reichel; third, R. Horn, all from New Haven.
 Club swinging-First, J. Freysinger New Haven; second, E. Misshler, Mer- iden.
 The swimming contest did not take place as only two contestants put in an appearance.
 A critical observer has this to say of the exhibitions:
 The prize turning in rows took in the | forenoon of Monday in a miserable house. In the afternoon there were fencing, ring exercises and club-swing | ing. An excellent evening entertain ment was arranged in Concordia hall, while in the interval spirited prize turn ing took place in Turn hall behind closed doors. Why the public was not | admitted cannot be answered. The sin | gle turning in the forenoon and the l turning in groups in the afternoon filled out the program for Monday. For the remainder of the day picnic and sum- mer evening festival was the attraction | at the park. At the summer evening l festival rather depressing spirit held | sway, and had it not been for the fu- morous exhibitions of the New Haven l and Holyoke Turner's the festival would have hardly come up to the average in spirit and life Especially did the New Haven youths keep the public roaring with their unapproachable humor And this humor was no sickly humor, either although the prospects of New Haven of winning the first prize in the society turning were already annihilated before l hn tn1 o+ T l New Haven Turner's were well con- scious were without prospects, for the rule concerning the ranking according to numbers still remained in force, which already at turnfests in former years had debarred the New Haveners
 from getting possession of the first
 prize, although they had won it. Thus
 it was this year also. Our class in
 turning is uneXcelled, but on account of
 the ranking according to numbers it
 sinks to third place. The injustice of
 this rule to the turner's of New Haven
 may be realized from the following fig
 ures: Waterbury, which obtained the first prize, scored 1 2-5 points for theil
 fourteen men, Holyoke with the second
 prize scored 2 3-5 points for twenty-foul
 men, while New Haven with it's twenty
 three men scored only 4-5 points. Thai
 such large society, which is handi
 capped in this manner, had no prospects
 for the first laurels in spite of excellen turning is thus clear.
 } Among the New Haven Turner's thi!
 rule has aroused bad blood, and at tht , next meeting of the Bezirk they vii
 endeavor to effect a. change. The tech nical direction of the fest is in tht hands of our turning instructor, Dr
 Arnold, and this leaves nothing els, l to wish for. But the official census O
 the bezirk would do well to exercise sharp criticism on the arrangement } made by the lookout committee. The chief interest of Tuesday was tn,
 parade. They formed in line near Turl
 hall and set themselves in motion to wards the green, where the exercise by all together were viewed by man, spectators. The Turner's all in uniform = costume presented a fine appearance. The local Turner's arrived in this cit, on the 7:10 train last evening and wer
 met by 8 delegation of passive mem
 bers at the depot and headed by
 drum corps proceeded to Turn hal l +l