New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1920-03-17
TURNPEST WILL BE
HELD Ii. HERE ! | +! IN NAY
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE GIVEN
POWER TO CHANGE DATE.
FINANCES GOOD.
STEADY INCREASE IN NUMBER
OF PHYSICAL TRAINING
PARTICIPANTS.

Az the annual convention OF the
Turner's OF the state, held at St. An
.thony Turner Hall, Minneapolis, Satur-
day and Sunday, March 13 and ID, it
was decided to have funniest in New
Olm this year, on May 80 and 81, the
executive committee, however, to have
the right to change the dates to July
3 and 4, if it should seem expedient to
do SO. This will mean that during the
present year this city will have the
pleasure OF entertaining the classes of
the societies OF the state doing physical
training work This two-day tourna-
ment will include the active classes, the
so-called bears, the ladies' classes and the
youths classes, and it is fair to assume
that over 100 participants will take
part in the contest. At this contest
the new rules which will maintain at
the national tournament to be held in
Chicago in June 1921 will be tested out.
Steady Increase In Participants.
The convention was we'll attended by
delegates from the, three societies con-
shutting the district Of Minnesota.
Fred Pfaender Of this city was elected
chairman of the convention and DR..
Kurt Bell acted as one of the secretaries.
From the reports of the financial officers
it appears that the district is financially
in better shape than it has been for
some years and from the report OF the
Rezirks- IurnWarts it appears that there
has beer q steady increase in the numbers
OF those who participate in physical
training work During the past year
the increase was quite marked and the
reports show that the increase exceeded
100 participants covering all the classes
from the children's to the adult classes.
Next Convention at St. Paul.
The next annual convention will be
held at the Turnverein St. Paul and this
society will also be called upon to select
the executive committee of the Bezirk
for the ensuing year. In the last few
years the executive officers were dis
tributed among the three societies, the
New Tim society furnishing the COM
mittee on mental training. For the
next year one society will be made re-
sponsible for the entire work of the
executive committee.
In connection with the Tagsatzung
a Turntag was combined and this was
held at the hall Sunday afternoon be-
tween three and six o'clock The active
and ladies classes participated in these
events. Thirty-four actives were pres
ent and a like number of ladies, and their
work showed that they take a keen in
terest in physical training.
In the evening Prof. S. I. Rypins Of
the State University of Minnesota spoke
on Stree Speech" and he was listened
to very attentively by the large audi
ence which had assembled there.
Women as Turnverein Membe
One of the matters that caused con-
siderable discussion was the question Of
accepting the ladies as full-fedged
members into the Turnvereins and it was
finally disposed Of by referring it to the
different societies for discussion and
debate.
New IJln1 Delegation.
The New Ulm Turnverein was rep
rocapto1 of +ha oo,,,ontio,, Nv, +bo fol
lowing eight delegates: Otto F. Oswald,
Julius Krause, August j. Mueller, Fraz
Niemann, Fred Pfaender, William J..
Pfaender, Frank Niemann, Jr., and
Armin Heymann. Albert Steinhauser,
Herman Helm and DR.. Kurt Bell also
attended as members OF the active
committee