The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-16
TEJTONS HAVE BEEN
 LEADERS IN DEVELOP
 ING AMERICAN ATHLETES

In the development of American athletics the inspiration of the sport loving Englishman and the practical participation of the Irishman have been of inca1culable value, but due credit is also to be given to the men of German blood, who have played so large part in this great movement. The Amateur Athletic Union. in its national convention scheduled for New ork today, will pay tribute to the genius of it's late secretary and treas- urer, James E. Sullivan. who was son of the old sod. The union deae- gates might also celebrate the anni- versary of the beginning of the in- duential German-American athletic and gyrnnastic movement, for next Saturday will mark the sixty-sixth birthday of the first turnyeretn in America, the Cincinnati Turngemeinde which was established on Nov z1, 1S4S.
 German gymnasts was epochal, since it practically marked the beginning of organized athletics in the New World. Inspired by the example of Friedrich L. Jahn, father of the Turn platz. and his disciples in the father land the Germans of America soon followed thesexanple of their Ctncan- nati comrades, and founded gymnas.s tic societies in other cities In 1850 the Turner Union was launched, with
  ties.
 Some years before the movement assumed organized form, Carl Pollen | and Carl Rock, who had lied to Amer l lea from Germany as political refu- gees traveIed over America preaching the benefits to be derived from the Jahn system of physical culture. The I gymnasiums of Yale Harvard and I other colleges are monuments to the I energy of these German exiles from | political and military despotisIn, Beck and Pollen, with pr. Francis Leber, another German, were the fathers of 1 gymnastics in the New World.
 I The Turner movement which was the fruit of their teaching in turn 1 Inspired many other gymnastic and tise were largely instrumental in in-
 ducing the Young Mems Christian As sociatfons of America to take up phy- .l sicaI training.
 The denocratic ideas which inspired ] the founders Of the Tunverein
 movement on this side of the Allan tic still represent the ideals of their I present-day fo1loweds. The Turner o1
 America, unlike his brother in Ger l many. is nearly always political re-
 former, and many of the most radical tsp4 political movements have been Of
 ctaIly supported by the Turner socie- Eties.
 h the deld of professional sport tht physical training methods of the Turn T CTS have doubtless been instruments I in adding so many Teuton stars te
 baseball, boxing and other s.pro.' l games. In the ring there have beer several German-American champions
 Ad EoIgast, Willie Ritchie, Billy Papke and Frank Klaus, and scores o1
 first class dghetng men. On the baseball
 diamond the Germans arc threatenins q the supremacy long held by the Irish l Wagner Herzoz Tinker, Dahleu
 Lo1ig, Chick Stah1, HoblitzelL Groh
 rgiehoff, Lobert, Hauser, Kling
 Schang Schalk, Schaefer. Merk1e
 Pfefer. GanzeI, Steinfeldt, Gumberi $ Zimmerman. Wolter. Fromme. Knabe l Carnnitz. Becker, Myers-the. list Q Teuton diamond stars could b ileagthened almost iAdeniteIy.
 The Germans in Athletics and spor amateur and professional, will hay 2 Ito travel fast and far to beat tn 2 Irish, but the Hibernians had bette Took a 1eedle rt.ssl The American 2 ized Dutchman has got the goods, an
 by comparison the German who hs 2 stuck to the father1and is an also ral