The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-06-24
TWO WIN THE KAISER PRIZE
NEW YORK AND PHTLADEL-
PHIA TIE FOR STATUETTE.
The winning singers Are the kreutzer
Quartet OF Manhattan n h JunGer
Maennerchor OF the Quaker City
Former Holders OF the Prize Sing.

INTO three parts, and into the three parts
Yesterday swarmed between 5000 and
5000 of the German singers and their
wives and best girls to sing and listen to
the bands and have a good time. and to
await expectantly the coming OF dusk and
the announcement OF the prize winners
Of the competitive singing contests that
have been under way at the Twenty
second National ~Saengerfest that has
been filing Madison Square Garden with
melody since Saturday last.
II sny of them had a Crouch because
Concordia Of Wilkesbarre didn't win tho
splendid Kaiser prize agnin this year they
didn't show It. Perhaps some Of the
Younger members Of the Concordia sooi-
ety did toel a bit peevish, but as Billy
Goeckel. sometime captain and first base
man of the Philadelphia National League
team, but now a Wilkesbarre lawyer and
also president and first base tsineer) Of the
Concordia. put it. Lets be good sports"
II did 90 hard with Concordia, though.
They won the Kaiser prize at Newark
three years ago, and II they had won 1t
again this year they could have kept 1t
forever.
But they didn't. The prize prize. the
saneerfest. will be divided from now
until the sangerfest takes place three
years from now in Philadelphia between
the Kreutzer Quartet Club Of Manhattan
and the Junger Mannerchor Of Phila-
delphia. Each scored 50 points out Of a
possible 600 points for each Of the songs
in the contestant therefore the Rreutzer
singers will keep for a year and a half the
silver s~tatuette that the Kaiser gave in
1900 and then turn it over to the Junger
Mannerchor, and Philadelphia for the
other year and a half.
Despite Billy Goeckels ~admonitions to
James Henry Campbell and Nate Reese
and the two Roderiok boys and l.. L.
Bishop, the Carlisle Indian School grad
uate, who now Is q bank clerk in Wilkes
barre, and Tom Darling and Lawyer
Anthony Camphell and l.. j.. McClusky
and D. Sosnowsky and the Jones and
Davis and Williams and Hughes and
Grifhths boys-despite President Bily's
advice to all theee Concordia singers, you
would hear a groan o and then under
the trees about only four points for con-
~ception! Can you beat that!' In front
of the bulletin boards on Newspaper row,
North Main street. Wilkesbarre. last night
there wasn't a dry eye in the throng that
Constable Tony Bauer tried to keep
moving.
Concordia wouldn't have minded SO
much II it wore not that they felt so sure
of winning again this year. Since their
rendition OF Warming vor dem Rhein'
and .Altdeutsches Liebesiied." h two
S.n an
tuesday night at the Garden, even some
OF their competitors said that the prize
was theirs. To a man everybody else a
go. But the judges Of the contest, Gustav
WohlRemuth. who wrote the second OF
the prize songs; Prof. H. Meyer-Olbers-
Of Columbia University and Arthur Mees
and Max Spicker. had different notions. =,
The sealed verdict OF the Judges, all
dotted with red wax, was opened by
Major Carl Lentz OF Newark. president
Of tho Northeastern Sa~engerbnnd of
Texter's Ulmer Park Hotel shortly before
O'Clock last night amid a painful silence.
Below in the park you could hear many
scattered ohoruses under the trees and
far brass bands prayed. but the ooatless
committee OF 100 or moro that sat about
Major Lentz, too interested to wipe their
Not only did Conoordia lose first place.
but they did not wen como next to the
two singing societies for first place. The
Germania Society Of Newark scored 81
points to the winners &c.. Conoordia
came next to Germanfa with So points.
and the Arions Of Baltimore were last,
with 50 points.
While the yerdicts Of the judges in the
various contests were being opened and
tailed from 5 O'Clock in the evening until
I o'clock up in the hotel hall. big groups
OF happy Germans came down from New
York by boat and trolley and automobile
to the splitting point. Managers o! the
picnic said they expected 3d. 900 or 10000
people. Almost that many came. II any
more were on hand the park fences would
have sagged outward.
When secretaries and stenographers
had Strengthened out the Judges decis-
ions that Major Lentz and his assistants
had been Keeling off for two hours. the
rest Of the committee and the reporters
were permitted to file out of the hall be-
tween lanes OF expectant competitors
and their families. Over to the dancing
pavilion Major Lentz and Julius Lorenz
and presidents OF composing societies
climbed upon the platform that the or
chestra had been occupying. The silver
statuette OF a m~innisanger which the
Kaiser gave for the big contest doomed
high on a table before Major Lentz. and
around it were grouped silver wreaths,
piles OF diplomas, silver loving cups and
the other prizes to be awarded.
Trumpeter Peter Ell sounded a fanfare
TO silence the throng that pressed about
the platform, but his efforts were un-
necessary. Everybody wanted TO- know
who had won and the throns waited in
silence. ~
Major Lentz delivered q short address
in German in which he told OF the Singer
bund's appreciation Of the interest New
York had shown in the sangerfest. from
the Mayor down, and he spoke then OF the
singers appreciation Of New York's ap.
probation. Then the Major announced
the prize winners.
The following Is the list:
Awarding OF prizes at Ulmer Park. twenty
second national saenserfest:
singing Societies of the Forrh Glaze
Concordia Quartet Club. Philadelphia. n
points. hrst: Union Hill Liederkranz. Unlor
Hill. Nj, 20 points. second: Turner Manner.
Choir, Atlantic City. N. j.. - points. third
Riverside Mannerchor. Riverside. n. j.. %
points, fourth: B~remerv6rder Mannerchor
Brooklyn. IS points. nth; Adler Manner
Choir, Brooklyn. Is points. sixth
Singing .Sociehes OF the Third CLdss
Schweizer Mannerchor. Philadelphia. q
POINTS, frst: Deutscher Liederkranz. BROOK
Ign, 20 points, second: New Rochelle Man
rerchor. New Rochelle. n. y, 2s points,
third. Mozart Mann erchor, Baltimore, q
POINTS, fourth; Greenville Liederkranz
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