GYMNASTICS.

Press, Volume XVIII, Issue 2670, 20 November 1871, Page 3

GYMNASTICS.

TO THE EDITOE OP THE PRESS. SO*,—While thanking you for the interest jo-itake in gymnastics and the friendly adtice contained in your paper of the 18th, I trill with your permission reply to a few of Tour remarks. 1. (Committee.) A stranger '-Cre would require the advice of a committee in the choice of members, and other business of the like nature; a committeeman need not necessarily be a gymnast, his duties •sould be to assist the instructor to keep the gymnasium in every sense of the word respectable, while the working and management of the classes would be entirely in the bands of the instructor. 2. Tournaments I "do not agree with, as it would make tbe gymoasinm more of a public entertainment than a private club; besides members would object to display their abilities as a means of keeping the club afloat after paying their inscriptions for that purpose. Let a day .he set apart for the friends of pupils to visit the gymnasium to witness the exercises gone through by thc different classes, such visitors to be admitted by card from the instructor, free of charge, and as a further means of making the gymnasium popular, let the instructor and pupils give their services when requested to assist at charitable entertainments. I am. &c, 'T. Q. Walker, 5 Teacher of gymastics, calisthenics, &c.