Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-10-05
Y. N. C. A.
Membership Contest Between Five
Wisconsin Cities Including
Wausau.

Following the plan adopted by the
Y. M. G. A. directors four years ago
the annual membership contest began
Monday of this week and will close at
$50 D. m. Saturday. AS usual the
inter city contest feature will be
carried out. Several new associations
have entered the field this year. The
lineup for this year is: Appleton,
Beloit, Eau Claire, Fond du Lac,
GAINESVILLE, Racine and Wausau. APP
pleton and Beloit have each completed
new 100000 buildings and will be
able to put up a great fight in conse-
quence. Eau Claire, however, con-
tinues to be Wausau's chief rival and
the workers for this year are leaving
no stone unturned to relegate Eau
Claire to the back seat.
The local contest has resolved itself
into fight between two teams, the
Cubs, with John S. Landon as Cap
tain and The Tigers with E. ID.
Widmer as Captain. With these two
men as the heads of the teams there
is assured contest that will not be
allowed to grow cold at any stage OF
the game. Both men are out to win
and each has associated with him a
corps of Lieutenants which will make
it certain that the result will be in
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The lieutenants for the Cubs under
Mr.. Landon are: w. B. Heinemann,
Grin Liljeqvist, H. G. Berger, L. 9.
Johnson, H. >. Wright, G. A. Cowee,
Alfred Zimmerman, e. e. Johnson,
A. M. Van Duser.
Capt. of Boys, Chester Hartlett.
The lieutenants for the Tigers I'M
der Mr.. Widmer are; @. e. Parker,
d. G. Everest, c. G. Kruger, w. A.
Koch, VIM. Anderson, Rev. ID. S.
West, S. B. Tobey, Edward Oertel,
Max YELLOW.
Capt. of Boys, Elvin Hartlett.
A banquet for the workers was
held at the Y. M. q. A. last Friday
| evening at which time the whole
situation and plans were presented
by Gen. Sec'y G. f. Ogden, following
which fiery speeches were made by
Captains Widmer and Landon also by
G. D. Jones, G. A. Cowee, G. E.
Parker Grin Liljeqvist, Fl. S. Wright,
M. g. Ewing, A. L. Tucker, FL. G.
Berger, R. Hochtrit. This banquet
showed greater enthusiasm than
| ever before in a membership cam
| paign.
On Saturday noon the boys held a
banquet and organized for the cam
paign. The members of the Tiger
| team were seated at one table and
| the "Cubs' on the opposite side of
the room. All the boys who hadn't
signed up with one team or the
| other were seated at table for those
who were neutral. Great enthusiasm
prevailed and the boys cheered heart
lily as their Captains, Mr.. Landon and
Mr.. Widmer, came into the room.
| Enthusiastic talks were given by q.
f. Ogden, W. r. Boorman, Mr.. Wild
mer and Mr.. Landon. The boys are
looking forward to reaching the $50
! membership limit in the Boys De-
partment by Thursday evening. and
then they will be ready to help the
men raise the remainder of the 1000
| members.
BY Friday noon the red and white
membership buttons began to appear
on the streets and on Saturday they
were being worn with white ribbons
marked "Tigers," or Red, White and
Blue ribbons marked "White." AL
| though the real contest did not be-
gin until Monday large snumber of
memberships came in and the
number is growing very rapidly the
first few hours of the contest.
A large sign has been placed on
the Y. M. G. A. which will indicate
the standing of the various cities
in the contest as they are recorded
each day. Two large thermometers
will indicate the standing between
the two teams each day. One sign
will be on the Y. M. G. A. and there
will be one in conspicuous place on
the west side of the river.
The membership in the Y. M. @. A.
has been making rapid strides each
year since 1911, but this year prom
Uses to be bigger and better than
ever before. The actual number of
members in past years has been as
follows:
1911. 300 1913...... 1856
1912. .678 1914. 1866