The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-24
YIN. CA. GYMNASTS
ENTERTAINED MANY SPECTATORS
WITH CLEVER WORK.
FINE TUMBLING A FEATURE.
TORCHLIGHT CLUB SWINGING
AMONG THE SEVERAL NOVELTIES.

Exhibition Attended by Nearly Four
Hundred Persons Was Given
by Members of Senior CIass-Un-
der Direction of j. VI. Graham,
Physical Director Wrestling
Match Between BOstvick and Kes-
sci "A Draw - Lynes Won Rope
Climb From waIdhauer-WOrk of
Elton and His TumbIers Only
Short of That of Professionals.
The senior class of the Y. NJ. c. A.
gave an excellent gymnastic exhibition
in the association gym last night. 1t
was attended by some $50 people who
enjoyed it most heartily and were I'M
sparing in their applause of the many
excellent numbers that constituted the
programme. The work was done under
the auspices of Mr.. ]. NJ. Graham,
physical director, who drilled the. class
and who, in addition, led the work on
several pieces of apparatus.
The features of the programme were
the fancy marching, with which the
programme began and which contain
ed many novel figures, not before seen
in Savannah; the tumbling and mat
work of Mr. ]. H. Elton, Jr., and Mas
tiers James Silva, Louis Hoynes and
Frank Bridges; and the final number
a torch-light club swinging exhibition
which has never before been given
here, but which Is clever enough and
pretty enough to be made a feature of
all further athletic shows of this kind
AS has been the case in former ex-
hibitions, the work was done to the
accompaniment of an orchestra, Ros-
enfelds, which added not little to the
esprit de corps of the class and to the
enjoyment of the spectators. Some
forty men took part in the work.
though not all of them were on the
floor at any one time, a distinct adj
vantage as it tended to avoid confu-
sion and delay.
The programme in full was:
Overture, Rosenfeld's Orchestra.
Fancy marching.
Dumb bell drill.
Glass exercises on parallel bars,
horse, rings, vaulting bar.
Three deep tag.
Ripe climb, w. Lynes, B. w. VALID
hauer.
Tumbling, J. H. Elton, Jr., Jas. Silva,
Louis Hoynes and Frank Bridges.
Horizontal bar, G. B. Elton, W. F.
Lynes, E. Rousseau, G. E. Jordan and
j. M. Graham.
Wrestling, B. B. Bostwick, E. ].
Kessel.
Parallel bars, G. B. Elton, w. F.
Lynes, E. Rousseau, G. E. Jordan ard
]. NJ. Graham.
Relay race, two teams.
Torch Light Club swinging, II. B.
Harden, w. H. Suaman, J. McCallum,
A. B. Goodenow and J. M. Graham.
The dumb bell drill was good and
so were the class exercises though in
each the idea was to eXemplify gene
raj body building work rather than
fancy work; the game of tag was an
other novelty and one of a decidedly
numerous nature. In the competitive
work w. F. Lynes won the rope climb
making the trip from floor to roof in
IL 3-5 seconds, while the wrestling
match was declared a draw after
Bostwick, the aggressor, had vainly
tried for more than ten minutes to put
KessePs shoulders to the mat.
The tumbling was undoubtedly the
best work of the evening, as it was by
far the most interesting to the spec
tators and the most appreciated by
them. For three successive seasons
Mr.. Elton has trained the youngsters
who took part with him, and each
year they have taken the palm for
clever work. Somersaults and hand
springs, both backward and forward /;
pyramids three high, or in broader
shape when Elton supported one boy
upright on his shoulders and the 9TH
ers, one on each side, and various
aerial somersaults from every con-
| ceivable position were only a few of
| the tricks exhibited, but they were all
done with a certainty of poise and a
nicely of form and style that could be
surpassed only by professionals.
III the club swinging, made possible
by the clever device of inserting aIco-
hol soaked cotton in the bottom of the
| clubs and lighting it, the gymnasium
was in darkness, so that the full effect
of the whirling circles of fire, as the
men swung their clubs, might be
brought out. At the close of this num-
Der Mr.. Graham alone gave a remark
ably clever exhibition of handling the
clubs.
1t is probable that another exhibit
ton will be given in the spring, when.
1t is expected, a much larger number
OF men will take part and when also
1t is more than probable that an even
great proficiency in the work will be
shown.