The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-04-21
YOUNG GYMNASTS
IN CLEVER STUNTS
Magnet Club Exhibition Monday
Evening a Success.
ABLE TRAINING WAS APPARENT
Tumbling and Pyramid Building Espo'
cially Entertaining Program Show.
cd What Might Be Accomplished
With Improved Facilities,

lion of the Magnet club was given be-
fore nm enthusiastic audience IN the
Monday evening That it
was a success is due in no small measure
TO the work of the physical director OF
the organization, Roy b. Miner. While
there were not quite as many boys ~
the exhibition this year ms last the
second season Of training demonstrated
that excellent results can be obtained
even with inadequate quarters and IN
sufficient apparatus. Principal r. B..
Smith of the high school spoke briefly
of the need of club and club quarters
not only for boys but for girls and told
the audience if il was pleased with the
exhibition and satisfied of the need OF
such an institution ms he had outlined
he hoped the people would continue to
talk the proposition.
The program opened with an over
ture by the high school orchestra, which
played during the entire performance,
The first number introduced Physical
Director Miner and 10 members of the
club i'm a maZerunning stunt, an orig.
inal arrangement by the physical
director. The boys taking part ranged
from the husky director down 70 q
diminutiye athlete weighing less than
60 pounds and the figure was carried
out without skip. The boys wound
about the stage and executed an inter
locking step which was enthusiastically
applauded. The squad then dropPe'
their dumbells and INDUCED in calls
themes for about 10 minutes. TINS
was revelation to the audience OF
what the Younger boys can learn IN the
way of following leader. II was
setting.up drill which kept every mem
Der of the squad moving. The dumb
hell exercise was another demOnstra
ton of rhythm and presented u pret'N
picture.
The Indian club swinging was -
near perfect as il could be and, th'
team Of seven high school boys dispiaye,
n noise in handling the clubs wmcl
many professionals might well envy
Whenever fine team executed a partlcu
larry difficult movement the audience
was quick to applaud. Probably th'
mat drill aroused the most enthuslan
as opportunities for hard falls ana luai
crous mishaps are numerous III UNI
kind of gymnastics. The entire squa'
of about 40 boys turned MP HOPS
somersaults and other kinds OF ma
stunts while the audience appiande'
| almost continuously for period o
q -
81 insistent following the fall of IN
curtain that a squad of six of tn
I larger bows came upon the stage agalI
and repeated several of their cleVeres
stunts ii,
The parallel bar work under tn
direction of John +. Tasker was espt
ciallv good and plainly demonstrate
that the acquisition of a set OF par
! late in the season was an investment o
which the club will realize heavily
MI Tasker put his squad, compose
If the biuh school members OF the clul
thronnh some exceedingly stiff work o
the bars and the audience showed Y
appreciation of the efforts OF the hoN
Nv applaudine every performer.
When the fifth section OF the pro9ra ~
was reached the audience settied tts9 9
TO enjoy the really funny stunts OF VI
evening and there is no reason 10 ~
lieye that anyone went away ulssa!n :
fed. The program called Tor tuhlnLmII
and If was tumbling that the Whol
o o" induloed in. Sometimes a sma
4 hnv would Glide half way across III
mat on his face or in attempting
vicente a Follower would land on ~
hack with a thud which shook III
STAGE such parts of the pertormanle
ticilpd the Younger people OF ~
audience while the cleverer work OF u
oidnr hoys in turning backward some
canlts nleased the older persons WI
onnreciated the amount of WORK II
ouired to perfect the squad IN sue
WI Th n. nvramid building which close
tho nrooram was exceptionally, gou
and the ease with winch fhSsiIr;'
Director Miner constructed ms oro a.
ferent pyramids of BOYS showeu t taaet
attention to details. when u 1gV" y
necessary to break W pyralhiue !,
apex of which was always one - =,
smallest members OF the elup' nsofe,
r. he seen that the top boy sale,
10 p tho fret thing in the mind of eve'
ma9 Ing During the 90 minutes
me- ,,,o,a If This part of the program the
more M mishaps and the ilnale WI
* members composing pyramid 60
.;,+;nu Of five BOYS on the floor: -
s4ond;no mon the shoulders OF Y
frst section. three in the third sectlo
4Irn n tbe fourth section ana Noul
| 49, at the apex was given an oNaVlo
! n,Ir;no The height of the applause I
| ,I,tramid suddenly came down dpP'
| Ill in a crash vet it was dont
| oasiIy and correctly that every olle
: he smiling bows was facing tnb !
: dience. The school SOM 4h fn "xhibiti
| audience Joined, brought the cN"'"'''
70 Those Sc taking part in the 2 Ie
number of the program, lmcluolng !,
n por'e and dumbbell eX JH' p
T ware Fred Howard ALVIN VIE
Bryan Gale, Harold Miner inert H TSay
Pierce. RAY Saunders, R 60 peri F For
IIV Curtis. Mason sharpe poa1
Nludn ~ lanes Denning, l5iet
Morse Harold tq s5n as s5 the SQUAD nnT.
cnmposed of Robert k N, WHO Raj al
e epli '' Thaver. Laverne Thayer, o na1
ta Limo mart in the parallel par r mu
~ ne Director John p. TasKer' I Tor'
Wentworth e Leonard Wheeleft THAT Iha,,
M MEm ROY b. Miner. Robert n" r
Inonard Pierce and Ray sanders;
nat drill included all Of the ,; 6oSS s IN
maze MAJ tb rn' additional boys; Ernest u