New-York tribune., 1919-03-30
Trip to Los Angeles Prob
able Reward for Jndi-
vidual Winners; Hol
Seeks Old Title
By A. c. Cavagnaro

Gymnasts of the greater city, New
ark and Connecticut, including repre-
setatives from local colleges, are pre-
pairing for the annual Metropolitan AS
sociation championship tournament,
scheduled for the Twenty third Street
Y. M. c. A next Saturday evening
The entry compares especially we'll
with those of prc-war days.
1t is likely that the individual win
ners will be sent TO Los Angeles to
compete in the national championship,
which takes place on the Coast in
May. Negotiations have been opened
to reward the winners with this trip
and an announcement to this effect is
to be made within few days.
The feature of the coming meet will
be the all-around championship. This
test comprises agility and strength in
hve events, as follows: Parallel bar.
horizontal bar, side horse, flying rings
and tumbling. The new rules for this
competition, which were adopted at the
annual A. A. U. meeting last year, call
for each competitor performing two
exercises in each event, with points
to be awarded on basis of difficulty.
danger execution and speed.
Peter Hol, representing the Nor
wegian Turn and Athletic Club, of
Brooklyn, former holder of the all
around title, will endeavor to regain
his old honors. Hobs physique dis
plays the benefits of gymnastic work
and followers. of this sport proclaim
him the equal of any professional in
Rof
country Hol was the star gymnast of
Norway, in which country he at one
time held the Kings Cup for ski jump-
ing
The team title seems to resi- between
the National Turn Verein, Newark, the
1918 champions, and the Norwegian
Turn and Athletic Club, of Brooklyn,
which will attempt to regain its old
title. The Norsemen will be represent
ed by their strongest team in years,
which comprises Hol, Jorgenson, Wins
jansen and Frydcnborg.
Otto Poll, one of Newark's best, and
Frank Krz, who is a member of the
Fire Department of that city, will carry
the larger part of the burden in an
effort to retain the team championship
for the National Turn Verein Club. Ar
thur Nugent. the national tumbling
champion; Heer, Yeager, Tempenke
and Schneider are among the other
National entries.
The New York Athletic Club will
have representatives in the tournament
for the first time in two years, due to
the lifting of the edict that no member
should represent the club in champion
ship competition during the war. The
two stars of the Winged Foot entry
are Ray butcher, many times champion
with the Indian clubs, and G.. L. Nc
Loud, also entered in this event.
Distance runners are beginning to
reach the fine point in their training
for the season of open, novice and
handicap road races which is sched-
uled to begi on April 6 and continue
every Sabbath day thereafter for eight
of runners in the invitation races on
Sundays, the clubs promoting these
races will not lack for patronage.
The campaign will get under way
with the novice event to be held by the
Macombs Athletic Club on April 6.
This will be followed by the Clark
House A. A. handicap on April 13. Then
comes Brooklyns annual Classic" the
Easter Sunday handicap of the Brook
lyn A. A., on April 20. The Mohawk
Athletic Club will stage it's open race
IN Ihe Bronx on April ~, and the
Eddie Waldron handicap" of the Morn
ingside Athletic Club on May a. All
these events will tend to make the har-
riers fit for the Bronx-to- -City-Hall
modified marathon on May 10.
The Central Association of the ANA
teur Athletic Union is to institute an
innovation at It's annual indoor junior
and senior champion hips, which are