Evening star., 1950-02-05
Fifty Years Ago

Inc Star for January 26, 1900, said: IF
all goes well, the members of the New York
Athletic Club will witness next
!. K. @ week one of the prettiest
Wrestler wrestling bouts that ever took
place on the canvased arena of
their splendid gymnasium The participants
are to be no less personages than Theodore
Roosevelt. Governor of the State of New
York, and Charles Turner, corporal in Com
pany F, 7th Regiment, and veteran of the
Spanish War. Capt. Henry B. Turner, his
father, who used to command Company e
and served with it in the Civil War, is au-
thority for this Everybody knows that
Gov. Roosevelt recently took wrestling
lessons from professional at Albany. As
young man at college he was no mean
opponent, and his life on the plains after
his graduation from Harvard only served to
harden his muscles. Every amateur in New
York knows Charlie Turner. He is a chunky
little fellow, every inch of him bone and
slneW. He. holds the amateur championship
for wrestling at lightweight. Every
effort is being made to keep the date of
the bout secret. but the clubhouse will be
full the night that it is pulled off,"
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James Bryce, M. P, writing for The Star
OF January 81. 1900, explained: Germany,
like England. desires to re-
Gern,ony's New main at peace with her
Policy neighbors. But. Germany,
like England, is embarking
on new policy, and policy which may
diminish one of the motives she has hither-
to had for remaining at peace. Her govern
ment is bent on largely strengthening her
navy: and the project, whether or not it will
ultimately be carried out on the great scale
which the Emperor is believed to desire, will
certainly go on. The growing prosperity OF
her trade enables her, without too severe an
effort, to crafty what is, in the present
state Of the world and with her colonial
predictions, natural ambition Thus
matters relating to war bulk more largely
than ever in the thoughts of two of the
European countries which have the strongest
reasons for peace and which have been fore
most in all the arts of commerce and in
dustry." The future Viscount Bryce went
on to discuss the sources of danger" in the
Balkans.
On January 30, 1900, The Star reported
at length the 18th annual dinner of the
Gridiron Club held on the previous
Gridiron Saturday evening - January 27.
Dinner President Henry L. West delivered
"a happy speech of welcome, in
the midst Of which - new electric grid
iron, larger and more brilliant than before,
flashed its rays from the wall at the head
~of the table," Other speakers were: William
Jennings Bryan, Senators Frye, Depew and
Beveridge former Senator German, Repre-
sentative Tillman and WI Ting-Fang, Min
lister of China. Two members of the club
were mentioned who still are active. They
were Henry Xander. pianist, and Robert
LINCOLN O'Brien, described half century
ago asa slave to Hibernian Sultan of Sulu."
DR.. w, Sinclair Bowen was listed among the
guests.
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The Star under date of January 80, 1900,
published a telegraphic account Of the shoot
ing Of State Senator VIII
Goebel Shot liam Goebel In the grounds
AT Frankfort Of the Capitol at Frankfort,
KY. A ball passed entirely
through the reformer's body. but it mis-
takenly was thought thai the wound would