Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-05-09
FIFTY THOUSAND PEOPLE VIEWED
YESTERDAYS EVENTS.
RAIN INTERFEREs SOMEWHAT.
SCANDAL IN CONNECTION WITH A
JUMPING CONTEST.
One Hundred Entries In the ALL
Around Competition-CIever Work
in the Fencing COntest-Ten
Thousand school Chill
dren Drill.

st. Louis. May S.-Fifty thousand peo-
pie viewed to-day's events at the National
Turnfest at the fair grounds. Rain inter-
fered with the morning programme.
A scandal growing out of yesterdays
far high jump, which, by the way, was
to have been concluded to-day. but was
not, grew out of the finding of an al
legged attempt at crookedness IN the plac-
ing of the apparatus. Just after the New
York Turnverein had completed its jump
ing and had made the best score. the
teacher of the Philadelphia Turngemeinde
called the attention Of the judges TO the
fact that the apparatus had been moved
back half q foot, by whom 1t was not
known. meeting Of the judges was held
and 1t was decided to give the New York.
ers the alternative of jumping over again
or accepting a reduction OF half point
in their marking. The New Yorkers also
held a meeting to-day and decided that
they would stand by the record made yes
terday. They prepared protest and have
submitted 1t to the judges. demanding that
If they are compelled to jump over again
or have to submit to a reduction, all the
other societies which performed on the
same apparatus should be treated the same
way.
Individual competition for the all around
prizes, consisting Of three exercises on the
horse, horizontal and parallel bars. were
pulled of indoors. There were about 100
entries. Chicago. Milwaukee. st. Louis.
New York. Cleveland and Buffalo having
the larger number of entries. Chicago.
Milwaukee and St. Louis performers
seemed to be in the best form.
A. ring was pitched in one OF the largest
contests. st. Louis. Chicago and Penn
sylvania entered the most men. 1t Is ex-
Pseted that A. & Sseger OF . the Chicago
and w. Ehman, Of Chicago. also did clever
In the wrestling contests there were
forty-three entries. Eisener, Of the Aurora
Turnverein (chicagol. won first prize for
Turnverein, and William Simpson. OF pa-
whining sd f0f the the Deciding the
lightweight, the results were: Theo. Kop-
pen, South ST. Louis. first; Charles Vie
second; Adam Bickel, Concordia Turn
verein. st. Louis, third.
ms1a aTsFds VIM in the contests for literary and
literary prize. with ". Ahrens., Of Chicago.
| lyn. received honorable mention. Ernest
Gechner, OF st. Louis, was given first prize
svrfsna fSs seeitations S and MAY Doerschner' OF
Ten thousand children of the schools Of
st: Louis gave a beautiful drill exhibition.
| allSiWdIuS 2VU SENIOR gave dU e4-
| hibition of dumb-bell exercises. Then came
| mass exercises by the actiyes, 1,5O0 strong.
After the completion of their movements
| the Turner'S gathered together in body in
4 front of the grand stand and sang In En-
glish, Columbia, the Gem OF the Ocean,"
At this the crowd cheered wildly for sew
| eral minutes.
The following were the results of the final
i heats in the bicycle races:
| Mile open-Feiix Cast. North st. Louis
| Turnyerein, first; Alfred Schmidt. Harlem
| Turnyerein, Chicago. second: s. G. Geiger,
| South st. Louis, third. Time, 2:56 1-5.
| Five miles open-Felix Cast. st. Louis,
| first; A. C. Geiger. st. Louis, second ;
George Kuehn, North st. Louis. third; Al
| fred Schmidt. Chicago, fourth: Thomas
| Buckworth, Birmingham, fifth. Time,