Omaha daily bee., 1898-07-03
Individual Contests.

In the afternoon the individual contests
took place. These we're in side and horse
y~aultiag. exercises OF the parallel bars and
turning on the horizontal bar. All except
the horizontal bar turning occurred on the
grounds. but the rain had made the ground
too slippery for the horizontal bar and the
exercises on 1t had to be gone through
in the South Side hall. Nine entered in
this They were George Eyser. Carl SeitI-
Frank Z. Fiala and William Meuser OF
West Deayer. Otto WHri Of PlattsDouth.
( Otto Peuschel and George stOrz of Kansas
City. william Cheyaiier Of L~eavenwoSth and
BaTnhart Berg Of Davenport
Georg. Eyser was far ahead Of any Of his
| competitors. He is the little man with the
wooden foot. In the ~vaul;ing over the big
horse he vas the admiration OF all be
I holders and got cheer after cheer. Next
TO him VAS Frank B. Fiala Of The same
club Of boys from the Rockies Byser
should get FIRST prize and Fials second. IN
less in the total figuring they do not lose
OF other points. which is hardly likely, as
I Denver has the best Of il on mileage as
well as merit. AZ a late hour the individ-
u. contests had not been figured up Otto
wnrl. as representing Omaha, seemed 10 De
= good third. Messrx Helm. WaechteT and
Schmi;t we're the judges This contest viii
I De determined uE me uuaAS AV-as-
There was also a club swinging contest
between wuri and 2. c. Ketter OF Kansas
City. with the chances all in favor Of the
latter. Kettler is as graceful with a pair
OF Indian clubs as ne is with a fencing foil
1 Three OF the Msrysyille turn women also
enioyed Z contest with the clubs. Misses
MARI Kouni. Kate Hertolsheimer and Bertha
YuIs--ft is hard 30 say which was the
mos, graceful and the judges had TO do
some pretty fine figuring. The official record
had no, been summed up yesterday evening
w.nan.s Class Competition.
Finally the class competition OF he turn
women vas en5ored in The dancing paYu-
lion This was one Of the yerT oes. Tea
lures of tie whole t~urntest, and 2 pTetileT
exhibition OF all around graoefulne@s mas
seldom ever -teen witnessed Il IS the
frs; time women have been permitted 10
coupete on the same footing as the men
They we're almost overwhelmed with ap-
plarse and. though they went through all
the Exercises b-avely enough. they left the
p~ayillion covered with bushes under the
weight Of so much appreciation
The Msrysyille women came first four
teen Of them. under the drilling OF l~nstruc-
tor Karl Haenui. They drilled with dumb
bells and also in club swinging. Next Omaha
was represented by sixteen, Instructed by
W. C. Retzer. They went through several
Tery pretty with wands and
hoops. After them seventeen turn women
from Kansas City. drilled by Instructor
Fred Burger with bar bells and last but
by no means least, fourteen from Topeka
Otto wendeIburg. instructor. II was a
close frst between Marysvills and Kansas
City. though the Omaha women had a point
OF two in their favor because OF their COM
bining difficult apparatus in one drill. The
Topeka women were put through calisIhen-
les. All the classes deserved all The praise
thsy ge; and at whould seem as though moth
ing short OF first prize IS due each but this,
Of course. cannot be. Mileage is against
the Omaha class for one thing On tie
other hand in The awarding Of first prize
the judges have 10 take into consideration
the difficulties Of the bar bell exercises
which distinguished the Kansas City class
and the fact, too. that the Marysville women
practically did double work with the dumb
bells and clubs IL was conceded, how
ever. that the probabilities were in favor
OF MarysTille. The record Sill be made pub
lie today. MeSsrs- Helm. Tell and BOetggeE
were the prize judges