The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-04-09
BIG HOLE IN DEBT
Y. Nj. G.. A. ATHLETIC ENTERTAIN-
MENT GIVEN LAST NIGHT WAS
HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL
PROCEEDS ARE ABOUT $1,000
Programme Given Under Direction
of Prof. Carl Rothfuss Varied
in Character and Smoothly
Carried Out.

When the generous citizen who prom
ised to duplicate from his own bank &C.
count every dollar of the proceeds Of the
Y. M. c. A. entertainment at the Audi
torium last evening comes to make good
that promise he will find that he has
undertaken no trifing outlay. Although
it has not yet been possible to get re-
turns from all who had tickets for sale,
and therefore the exact amount could
not be aScertained and probably will not
be for several days to come, it is est1-
mated from the attendance that the re-
ceipts will exceed $500. This with the ad-
dition to be made to the fund by the
citizen above referred to would give the
association 81, 600 as the result of the en-
tertainment and the officers and mem
bers are highly pleased with the financial
success of the event.
That the affair was a success as an
entertainment was heartily attested by
the audience in applause generously but
Discriminatory bestowed upon the per-
formers throughout the evening The
programme was widely varied in it's char
acter, ranging from the milder forms of
calisthenic and gymnastic exercises to
the rougher styles of aCrObatic and ath-
letic work.
The performance was under the direc-
ton of Prof. Carl Rothfuss, instructor at
the Y. NJ. c. A. gymnasium, who con-
Quoted all class exhibitions in person and
whose ability as an instructor was credit
ably reflected in the clean-cut, precise
work of each Of the classes, including
those made up of the smaller boys The
Y. NJ. c. A. orchestra furnished Incl
dental music and the drill movements of
some of the classes We're performed to a
piano accompaniment by Miss Eleanor
Russell.
Seniors Give an Exhibition.
The programme opened with an over
ture by the Y. NJ. c. A. orchestra, after
which the curtain rose upon a tapleau in
which all Of the participants in the en-
tertainment were attractively grouped.
High and broad jumping and pole vault
ing by the seniors was followed by a
combination drill by the members of the
ladies' class and Intermediates and
Juniors Then the seniors again claimed
the attention of the audience and pre-
scented very pretty exhibition of class
club swinging and Prof. Rot1fuss won
hearty applause by his dexterity in the
manipulation of lighted torches the
lights in the hall being extinguished to
add to the effect of his performance.
Mamie Rothfuss, a very small miss, did
a club swinging turn which greatly
pleased the audience
The ledger brothers, who have an
Perec professionally, gave a meritorious
and novel acrObatic exhibition and III the
course OF this division of the programme
there was also some fast bag punching
by George Barton and tumbIing by Chap
man and DAILY and Hu1seik and Ferris.
Part 1 concluded with apparatus work
by twenty-five men from the Y. NJ c. A.
and Turnverein.
In part 2 of the programme one of the
most attractive features was a. dumbbeII
drill by class of young ladies' A large
class of young men uniformly att:r
gave a fencing drill that gained them
much applause and another class of
young men showed high proficiency in
dumbbell exercises of a difficult charac-
ter.
In fencing bout Miss Caroline Van
Duzer and Miss Katherine Tanning
showed surprising skill in handling the
foils
Messrs. O'Donnen and McDonough box
ed three rounds in a snappy but never
the less friendly manner and both took
some hard punches with apparent good
nature.
In a wrestling bout A. Hammerstrom,
of the Y. M. G. A, won one fall from
Pearl Smith, styled the lightweight
champion of the Northwest, and it was
announced that two more falls would be
wrestled at the Y. M. G. A. gymnasium
this evening to decide the match.
The programme closed with some pref
ty pyramid work by a class.