Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-05
SPORTS At RIvERvIEw PARK.
Boh Garry on Most OF the FIRST
Honor

Dohcminns Garry OF Most of the First
Honors.
Notwithstanding the fact that the Twenty.
second regiment band held an immense
number of auditors close around the band
stand at the Rivervlew park celebration, the
excellent program OF sports proved to be a
great drawing card. The events were not
numerous. but they were In the main we'll
contested, were well managed and 1t Is no
surprise that they attracted a large con
course of people away from the other inter-
esttng numbers on the program. The best
feature about the program OF sports was
that it was amateur in its every detail. The
contestants were Omaha boys, who went In
for honorable victory by honorable means,
and the best athletes won.
The Bohemians carried off the honors OF
the day with hands down. They captured
all the prizes and their splendid exhibitions
that won the prizes drew forth hearty ap-
plause from the spectators. The contests
were between the members of the Bohemian
society, Tel Jed-Sokol. and those of the
German society, the Omaha Turnvereiu.
Other organizations were to have been rep
resented, but 1t is presumed that their ath-
letes were fearful lest the best prizes should
go to the Bohemians and the Germans and
so shrewdly absented themselves. 1t must
be said for the Turnverein that many OF its
star athletes We're in Lincoln yesterday.
Those who represented the Turnverein were,
as a rule, no match for the Bohemlans, and
that the latter ran away with all the prizes
was no surprise to observant spectators.
The athletes who represented the winning
team from Tel Jed-Sokol were: Frank
Machal, John Moravec, Rud Havelka, Joseph
Chyal, Joseph Falls, Frank Fiala. James
Swesky, B.. Bartoz, Albert Povondra, Frank
j. Fiala and Peter Drozda. Those who con-
tested for the honor of the Omaha TURNER
Elm were: Otto Wurl, John l.. Krage, Henry
Richter, Edward Lindley, Charles Refs,
william Mohr and Albert Mohr. The judges
were J.. J. Byrne, George Antus and
Adolph Swoboda.
First came the exhibition work on the
horizontal bar. Each contestant had two
trials to display his muscle and strength
to the crowd. The judges watched every
movement carefully, and if they thought a
mans performance was as near perfect as
could be, they awarded him five points, or
ten for his two exhibitions. Rudolph
Havelka, scoring ten points, was awarded
first prize, a gold medal, while Frank
Machal, who scored 90 points, captured
the second prize, a silver medal. Both of
these were from Tel. Jed-Sokol. For the
Turnverein Otto Wurl did the best work
and pressed the winners closely for their
honors.
Some clever work was done on the vault
ing horse, although it could be seen that it
had been several weeks since the contest
ants had gone through similar exercises.
In this work the Bohemian also captured
first and second prizes, a gold and a silver
medal. Frank Fiala ranked highest with 90
points to his credit, and Frank Machal
stood next to him with a score of 90.
Only mediocre work was done in the run
ming high jump. Rudolph Havelka took an
other first prize, a gold medal, just for luck,
He won 1t by jumping five feet two inches.
Frank Machal took his third silver medal in
this event by jumping five feet one inch.
Both first and second men were B%ohemians.
In the running long jump Albert Povon-
dra, also of the ~Bohemians, won a gold
medal with ease. He jumped nineteen feet
nine inches. His nearest competitor was
Rudolph Havelka of the Bohemians. who
had concluded that two gold medals was
enough for one man. He jumped eighteen
feet eight inches.
A great crowd witnessed a seven-inning
game of base ball between two mines call
ing themselves THE Need Mores'' and "The
Boojiers." The game was played on an
diamond on the side of a hill
and was of a character that delighted the
spectators, who were out for a day of fun.
1t was a contest from start to finish. inter
rupted only when a carriage would drive
over second base or the right fielder would
become lost in the cereal products of his
The BoOjiers" We're captained
by one Mccain, and so well did they follow
their leader that victory perched on their
standard and yelled forth ~ to g" Cap
tain Mason had charge of the players, who
neeu more practice. Inc batteries were:
Mccain, Greedy and McCune for the Boo
iiers,' and Hayes, Troby and Mcdonald for
the Need Mores."
An interesting drill by two uniformed
teams concluded the athletic program. The
of the Ak-Sar-Ben team of the
Order of United Workmen made a
fine showing in their white duck trousers,
blue blouses and white helmets. and they
well, TOO. But they could get no
better than second prize $50, for the Wash
lngton Ladies Drill corps. with its member
all arrayed in gowns of spotless white cir
oled by sashes of light blue, drilled so well
that the first prize $40 went to the corps
unanimous consent.