The San Francisco call., 1896-08-06
Brawny Teutons Will Compete
for Honors on Track and
in Arena.
DAILY CONCERTS AND DANCES
Ladies Classes to Participate In
Graceful Drills With Wands
and Dumbbells.

SANTA CRU q, CAL, Aug. 5.-The Tur.
ners and their associates and guests will
arrive here on Saturday evening at $50
o'clock by special train to participate in
the annual turnfest of the Pacific Coast
BeZirk. The guests will be met at the
depot by the Santa Cruz Turn-V erein and
fraternaI societies of this city. The pro-
cession will form at the depot and march
up Pacific avenue to the lower plaza, oppo-
site the Ocean House, then countermarch
to the Carnival Pavilion, where the visi-
tors will be welcomed by F r. Waltz, presi-
dent of the Santa Cruz Turn Verein. Mr..
Waltz will speak in German and he will be
followed by Lieutenant-Gov Jeter and
Mayor Clark, whose speeches of welcome
will be addressed to the English-speaking
visitors. The ladies' class of the local
Turn Verein will serve refreshments and
there will be general handshaking, form
ing of new acQuaintances and renewing Of
the old.
Sunday morning at o'clock reveills
will be sounded. At 7 80 the Turner's and
their guests will march in procession to
the festival grounds. On arrival the re-
hearsal of the wand exercises will begin,
then will follow gymnastic exercises in
classes, exercises on horizontal bars, par
allel bars and vau.ting horse. At 10:30
A. NJ. the public prize target shooting will
commence. From II NJ. to / P. NJ. there
will be an intermission for lunch.
AT 1 P. NJ. the prize tourney will
begin and continue until o'clock,
when the bears gentlemen between 40
and 70 years) of San Jose will perform
dunn bbell exercises. Then will follow club
swinging by the ladies' class of the San
Jose Turn Verein, and bugle call for the
commencement of the wand exercises; an
Grafton by Albert Corrlin, president of
the Pacific Turn Bezirk grand exhibition
drill, consisting of wand exercises. A
dance and concert will continue from IL
A. NJ until P. NJ. At P. NJ. the Turner'S
and their guests will return in procession.
At P. NJ. the prize recitals will take place
in the Turn Verein Hall, only in presence
of the Judges. At s P. NJ. there will be q
concert.
Mondays programme will open at Z
O'Clock with swimming in the bay; at 8
p. N. procession to the grounds. After
arrival there will be field exercises, con-
sistiDg OF pole-vauting, hop, step and
jump, high jumping, loot races, wrestling,
rope climbing, lifting heavy weights,
throwing 16-pound shots, Indian club
swinging and fencing. The diploma shoot
ing for Turner's begins in the afternoon
and the public target-shooting continues
during the whole day. The concert and
dance lasts from IL A. NJ. till 6 P. NJ. At
P. NJ. the Turner'S will return to town. At
9 P. NJ. the grand ball in the carnival pa.
vilion will begin and at midnight the
prizes will be distributed.
The programme for Tuesday will in.
clude excursions TO the Cliffs, the Santa
Cruz winery, the Big Trees, Capitola and
other places of interest in the morning,
with bicycle races in the afternoon on
Pacific avenue. In the evening the river
fete will conclude the funniest. The de-
tails of that event are in preparation and
the indications are that it VIII be an affair
that will be long remembered by those
who witness IL.