The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-04-30
ATHLETICS IN PENSACOLA
PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL
AN ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION HAS
BEEN ORGANIZED AND FINE
WORK FOR NEXT YEAR is Elk
PEcTEo-GlRLs ALSO HAVE Or
eANIzATIoN AND MADE GOOD
RECORD.

During the past year the boys of
the High School have become greatly
interested in athletic sports Begin
ming in the fall with basket ball win
ming two out of four games played.
then following the basket ball season
up with a track meet with the Clas-
steal School and securing in this meet
6S points out of total of SO points,
the boys have become very much en-
courageG and are now looking forward
to greater athletic activity curing the
next school year. And in order that
they may get the greatest possible
good out of their sports they have
formed an association for the manage
ment of all athletic events to be en-
gagged in by the boys of the
school. They have elected Mr.. Lock
ey, principal of the High School, pres
ident of the association; Earl Lyman,
vice-president; Charles Yates, secre-
tary, and Chandler Yonge, treasurer.
Funds Being Raised.
The association pledges itself to
maintain a foot ball team, basket
ball team track team and a baseball
team. AnG as it requires money to
support athletic teams in any school
one of the objects of this organization
in the High School will be to raise
funds for meeting the necessary ex-
penseS of the teams. There is already
a small surplus in the treasury and
plans are on foot for increasing this
fund so that there will be money on
hand at the opening of school next
fall for the purchase of foot ball suits.
Another object of this association
is to give the. school all-the-year-round
athletics. Heretofore there has been
a distinct ebb and flow in athletic in
terest. II is now planned to keep in.
terest at high pitch all the year by
having foot ball in the fall. basket ball
in the winter, a track meet in the
early spring and baseball during the
last months of the school year. BY
having the season for each sport end
promptly to be followed by the next.
upon which interest will be centered,
much better results will be obtained.
viii Use Y. M. c. A. Gym.
Formerly one of the greatest diff
culties in the way of maintaining sue
cessfully a basket ball team has been
. the lack OF place TO play. Next year
this difficulty will be removed for, as
practically all the boys in the school
above fourteen years of age will be-
, come members of the Y. NJ c. A,
they will have the use of the Y. NJ C.
A. gymnasium Hours in the after
noon will be reserved for the use of
the boys. Many of the boys will join
the Y. NJ. c. A. as soon as it opens
and in addition to the many other adj
vantages they will enjoy there they
will keep up their athletic training
during the summer.
One of the clauses in the constitu-
ton adopted by the Athletic Associa-
ton deserves special mention. This
is a provision requiring each candi-
date for membership on any of the
athletic teams to have an average not
lower than rs per cent in his studies
and department. This provision goes
into effect on October LIST, 1905. Al
ready some of the boys who have been
dangerously near the rs mark have
become more studious. II can be said
to the credit of the boys that this was
J an agreement entered into purely on
their part, and it is therefore their
intention TO live up TO it. They are
determined that it shall not be said
that they are thinking more of their
} games than of their books.
Interest in Baseball.
Interest at present is centered in
baseball There is not however, as
much interest manifested in this ex-
cellent sport as there ought to be. A
series of three games will be played
with the Classical School. These to-
gether with, perhaps, games with one
or two schools outside of Pensacola
will be the only games played by the
team this year. Next year the team
will be fitted out with new suits and
large schedule of games arranged.
! Barrow is captain of the team this
! year. { ese4dS
Within the next few days meet
ing will be called to elect captain OF
the foot ball team The prospects for
) strong team next fall are quite
} bright All the larger boys with the
! exception, perhaps, of Barrow will be
: back Hunt and Hannah who had for
merly intended going away next veal
have decided to remain, and John
Lewis, one of the fastest boys ever ii
the school, who dropped out in Janu
2 airy, will be back in October. These
= boys, together with Yates ana Rogers
) who entered schol this year, and Care
will form the nucleus of an excellen
: High School team. The secretary o
n the association would like to cores
pond with any High School team il
Florida or Alabama regarding game
for next fall
Girls Also Enthusiastic.
But speaking Of athletics in the Higl
School the girls, too, come in for
share of this article. Last white
there was organized in the school
girls basket ball team which from
\ that time TO this has never suffere'
i defeat Nome of the hnYS' teams ha