1912 Olympic Games Official Report Part 2

In Group III an opportunity was given of seeing a mixture of theSwedish system and the German “turn”. No one doubted but thatthe Norwegian team would win the contest. Everybody’s opinionwas, that the division in question was not a little superior to the Norwegianteam that had competed in Group I, both as regards uniformityin the movements, and also as regards the correctness withwhich they were carried out. The Danish team also took part in amixed programme, of which exercises on the horizontal and parallelbars and with rings formed no slight proportion. Finland and Germanydisplayed some staff-exercises. The Finlanders have always loved theiron staff as a gymnastic attribute, and it cannot be denied that it isan interesting item in gymnastics. The same can be said of the longstaves used by the Germans, with which figures were formed andcurves described. The programme of the nations now mentioned alsoembraced the usual exercises derived from “turn” -gymnastics.The judges placed Finland next to Norway, Denmark being awardedthe third prize.As regards the individual competitions, it only needs to be saidthat, in all the exercises, the representatives of the various nationsdisplayed a skill which must have been seen to be properly understood.The reader is referred to the judges’ protocol for the resultof this competition.563