The record-union., 1897-05-10
TURNER'S GREAT FESTIVAL.
A SUCCESSFUL nEErING CLOSED
AT ST. LOUIS.
Prize Winners Decorated With Laurel
Wreaths, as i'm the Grecian
Games.

ST. LOUIS, May 9.-The twenty
seventh national festival of the North
American Gymnastic Union to-day
closed a most successful meeting of four
days and prizes were awarded to the
visitors. Like those given by King
George of Greece to the successful com
petitors in the Olympian games at
Athens last year, they consisted of
laurel wreaths.
Each wreath was tied with a white
satin ribbon inscribed with the words
'Twenty-seventh Bund funniest, St.
Louis, Mo, May 9, 1897"
a diploma accompanied each wreath.
The awards were made tonight at Lie
derkranZ Hall in the presence of an i'm
mense crowd of the disciples of jain.
Jupiter Pluvius reigned supreme at
the fair grounds to-day, but in spite of
the showers that he poured down there
were 25,000 men, women and children
out to see the sights. 1t had been ex-
pected to make this the banner day of
the festival, but the wet weather caused
a curtailment of the programme. The
mass exercises had to be abandoned, but
the competitors in field sports, groups
one and two, were able to finish. The
only event not completed was the hun
dred yard class. In these races fifty-tWO
out of several hundred were unable to
run their men because of the wet
grounds.
In every other respect the festival has
been a success George Brosius, Prin-
cipal of the Normal School of the Urner-
bund of Milwaukee, who has attended
every fest since 1851, either as an active
turner or in the capacity of an official
is very prOfuse in praise of everything
connected with the arrangements which
ne said could not have been better.
To Hugo Munich and William A
Streher, President and Secretary, re-
spectively, as we'll as to the other mem
bers of the Central Committee, and
Henry Braun, President of the National
Bund, is due the praise for their able
management of the great quadrennial
festival which has just closed its most
successful meeting. Many of the turn
ers will return to their homes to-mor
row, but others will remain over Monday
and Tuesday and visit points of interest
about st. Louis.
The great work of computing the re-
suits of many contests was done under
the management of Mr.. Guenther of
Allegheny, Pa, with corps of ten men,
These were kept busy night and day
from the beginning of the contests until
late this evening. The results in the
different contests follow
Group /, in class competition, 115
classes competing: Division A, Phila-
~:
vision B, Denver TurnVerein, first; Di-
vision c, Holyoke, Mass, Turn Verein,
first; Division d. l, Plattsmouth, Neb.,
Turn-Verein, first.
Group ., in class competition, ten
classes competing: Central Turn-Ve-
rein of Pittsburg, first.
Group 3, in society competition, ten
classes contesting, South St. Louis Turn
Verein first.
Individual contests, sharp shooting, 10
men competing: w. f. Roessler, St.
Louis Turn-Verein first.
Club swinging, Is competing: Fred
Melz, Newark, N. j., first.
Wrestling, catch as -catch-can, heavy
weight. IA competitors: F. G.. Eisner
Aurora Turn-Verein, Chicago, first
Middle weight, II competitors: H. w.
Abecken. Concordia Turn-Verein, ST.
Louis first
Lightweights, II competitors: Theo-
dore Koppein, South st. Louis, first.
Individual work on apparatus and in
field sports, 100 contestants: George
Veryalin, Denver n-Verein, first
Fencing with foils, 33:} competitors: A.
Zeger. Chicago T. c., first.
Fencing, with broadswords. ten COM
petitors: F. Turnt. Chicago T. G., first
Swimming, distance 1880 feet. II COM
petitors: John T. Taylor. Central Turn
Verein, Pittsburg, first. Time-9:0S2
Individual contests in high jumping,
putting up the eighty pound weight and
hop, step and jump, Chris Wedel, Buff
falo, first.