The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-03-27
THE YALE-PRINCETON MEET
GYMNASTS OF THE TWO UNIYERST-
TIES AT YALE GYMNASIUM.


Championships Decided-High Jumping
Contest by Members of Y. A. A Very
Successful Exhibition-Ya1e Gymnasts
May Meet U. of p. Men Soon.
The gymnastic exhibition held at the
Yale gymnasium last evening by the
Yale and Princeton gymnastic teams
was one Of the most successful affairs
of the kind that has ever been held in
the new gymnasium. All the events
passed off very smoothly, and those who
participated showed a high degree OF
skill. Both teams showed the results of
long and careful training and some OF
the feats exhibited would do credit
to many Of the professionals who en-
tertain on the stage. The audience
was large, although not SO large as
was the one at the Yale-U. P. basket
ball game.
The Yale banjo club opened the pros
gram with selection and made up two
numbers Of the evenings progam. The
first gymnastic event was double hori-
zontal bar work by Princeton. which
was followed by work on the single
horizontal bar by the Yale team. The
Yale team also gave an exhibition OF
side horse work. One Of the most in
teresting events of the evening was the
wrestling in heavy, light and middle
weight classes. The contestants were:
Lightweights, A. S. Hurlburt CTS, and
N. w. Bartlett 19OO.; heavyweights, G.
Chadwick '97 and J. s. Mcfarland '9SS.a
middleweights, c. P. Hine '98, and A.
S. Hurlburt 97S.
AS the wrestlers, stripped to the
waist, rolled and twisted and circled
about each other looking for an open
ing, the muscles standing out. and each
on the alert, the days Of the Olympian
games were vividly recalled. The first
bouts in each class were draws and in
the second bouts the niddleweight and
lightweight events were dawn. In the
second bout Of the heavy weights, how
ever, Mcfarland won the fall in three
minutes, 20 seconds. In the third bouts
the elightweights were allowed to wrestle
until one Of the men won a fall. The
bout was won by Hurlburt in twenty
four minutes, forty-three seconds. The
heavyweight third bout was limited to
five minutes, and was won by McFar-
land in three minutes, rs seconds AS
41oa Lob %l,o ;xI hN,, oa
the middleweights was postponed and
will probably be wrestled off some time
next week. The winners Of the light
weight and heavyweight contests were
presented with elegant prizes in the
shape of silver cups. A like prize will
be awarded to the winner of the mid
dleweight match when it is decided.
The contestants were all Yale men.
The work of r. w. Beymer '9S and
Herbet Wheeler 1900, both of Princeton.
on the flying trapeze, was especially
good, both doing some extremely diff
cult work.
During the evening high jumping
contest was held by members OF the
Yale Athletic association. Those who
took part were J. H. Thompson ~, @.
NJ Perry 1900, N. c. Bradley '97S., r.
w. Burnett '97 w. F. B. Berger '99, r.
G. Merwin '97S., j. M. Gerard '97S., F..
Il. Van Beuren '93 and A. r. Jack 1900.
The contest was won by c. M. Perry,
handicap 4 inches, by a jump Of feet
2 inches; actual Jump, 5 feet 10 inches.
Second place was won by w. G. Brad
ley, handicap inches, by a jump Of
feet; actual jump feet inches. Third
was won by r. c. Merwin, scratch, in
s feet 10 inches.
Other events Of the evening were the
club swinging by s. Peterson, P. G.. OF
Yale; parallel bars by the Yale team,
double trapeze work by F.. D. Pitkin
'98 and r. w. Beymer '9S of Princeton:
torch swinging by S. Peterson, n G..
D. Douglass '9S and r. G. Clapp '99S.
of Yale, and tumbling by both teams.
One event not down on the program
but which proved very interesting was
the trapeze balancing by J. G. Stephen-
son Of Princeton. The torch swinging.
which was the last event on the pro-
gram was one of the most interesting
events of the evening. The lights were
turned out and the participants swung
lighted torches, producing unique fig
ures in outline of fire. The effect was
beautiful
w. T, Alcom, L. S., was referee of the
wrestling, NJ. " Ely '9S timekeeper, and
DR.. w. G. Anderson announcer
c. Gillette '97 was referee of the high
jumping contest.
The ushers were P. H. Bailey '97,cap-
tain of the Varsity crew; r. T. Muir
ply '97, captain of last years football
team; H. M. Keator '97, captain of the
Varsity baseball team; S. K Gerard
97. and c. M. Fincke '97.
The members of the Yale and Prince
ton teams who took part in the exhibit
ton were as follows:
Princeton-R. W. Beymer '9s.- ca ptain.
F. d. Pitkin '9S, W. w Barnard 'e7, II.
M. Wood '97. H. H. Langenburg '99. J.
NJ. Evans 1900, Herbert Wheeler 1906. F.
c.. Austin 1900. G. H. White 1900; o. r.
Altman '97, manager; G. Goldie, train
er.
Yale-F. R. Lehlbach '97 captain; G..
L. Buist, NJ. S., F. A. Lehlbach 49, H.
L. Hoffman '97, C. F. Cloth '97, W. K.
Shepard '97 s., B. L. Cadwalader '9S, A.
H. Terry '9S. L. D. Kellogg '9s, ]. B.