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...nations, including converts in Japan and Korea. In the game's stronghold of West Germany, where the world championship tournament will be held next March, some 1,500 league games were played last week alone. Current West German champions are a bunch of youngsters who play for the Turnverein Frischauf of Göppingen and who spend their leisure hours working out on parallel bars to develop the agility that will send them hurtling at goalies for a Fallwurf (falling shot). Explains one player: "All the hard falls on the court are worth the look on the goalie...
...real European competition, and furthermore predict that the U.S. will never turn out a topflight team. Why can't the U.S. produce champion gymnasts? One man who thinks he knows is German-born Coach Bernard Unser of the famed Bronx branch of the American Turners (until 1948, the Turnverein'). Says Unser: "In this country gymnastics is not considered a sport as it is in Europe. The average person here says, 'What do I care about people on monkey bars...
Germans are by nature joiners. How much the Bund is actually an undercover wing of Naziism and how much the innocent modern equivalent of an old-fashioned Turnverein is highly debatable, even among Bund members. Major operations of the Bund are week-end outings, where members in grey uniforms with Swastika brassards are drilled in German military tactics, sing German songs, listen to speeches in favor of Adolf Hitler. Dues of $9 a year partly go to buy camping sites, of which the Bund has 27 in as many cities. They also pay the salaries of Führer Kuhn...
Last year the gymnastic team held exhibitions with Columbia, Boston Y. M. C. A., Charlestown Y. M. C. A., and the Boston Turnverein, in all of which it won the decisions...
...meeting of the Athletic Committee last night permission was granted the gymnasium team to take part in an exhibition meet to be held by the Boston Turnverein on May 2. The appointments were approved of J. M. Groves '05, as assistant manager of the University lacrosse team, and of J. A. Sayler 2L., as head coach of the team for the remainder of the season, after Mr. Shea's departure, which will probably occur about May 1. Permission was given the shooting team to enter a dual meet with Yale at New Haven on May 6, and to take part...