The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-06-15

is closed will be baseball A league
composed of four or six teams will fbe
organized and play the first games
June 20. Three teams are already or
ganized. If you have not signed up for
team see one of the captains and
do so at once.
Altogether the various activities have
contributed to make the physical sec
ton tremendously popular. This is
conclusively shown by the enormous
attendance of physical department
privileges and baths amounting to
$4,000. In another year with the new
running track and other improvements
a much greater increase is sure to re-
suit. Many men who have been putt
ting off coming to the gymnasium from
day to day until 1T has amounted to year
after year will find the new track the
final stimulus that brings them.
Boys Department.
Harry Goodrich, secretary; Robt.
McCulloch, chairman.
We have a membership of 215 bows
ranging in age from II to 10 years
old. or these eighty-one are high
school boys, twentyfour are employed
boys, and Ito are grade school boys.
These boys come to the building to
take part in varied programme. Dur
ing the past year 216 boys have come
11,159 times to enjoy the gymnasium
classes and the swimming pool. More
than 100 boys have learned to swim at
the Y. M. c. A. with not an accident
to mar the record.
The boys Bible classes have enrolled
ninety three boys and had a total at
tendance of 1412. Early in this year
the Fargo boys department secured
place among the ten best departments
in North America in Bible study. There
has been a total attendance of 346 at
eighteen Life Problem talks conducted
by the department. Eleven boys have
united with churches.
The club room for older boys, opened
about Jan. /, has been the center of
fellowship and good cheer for a large
group. Through the courtesy of S.
Dunlop several fine pictures were Sc
cured forNthis room. These with pen
nants, new furniture, music, games ana
magazines make this the most whole
some social center for boys in the city.
In the main game and reading room
the boys find cue rogue, chess and a
variety of small games and the best
boys papers and magazines. The at
tendance for games and reading room
alone ran about 5000. The attendance
for educational classes and clubs was
500 more
The departments work outside tn.
building is large factor in the boylife
of the community. The grade school
athletic league now promoted by an
organization of teachers and princi-
pals with the help of the department
employees has been big factor in Sc
curing and maintaining clean sport,
good conduct and good class work
among the school boys of the city.
About sixty boys are directly touched
by this work while hundreds more
come to understand and strive to live
the ideals of the Young Mems Christian
association.
The inter city relay race from Fargo
to Grand Forks was the chief athletic
event of the past summer. The thrill
ing experiences of automobile drivers
in the mud and a boy running unreliev-
ed for miles will be remembered by the
participants for many a year.
The summer camps have now be-
come a definite factor in vacation life
of any Fargo and Moorhead boys. The
camp of 1909 was the largest held so
far. Twenty-fiv boys under the care
of six adult leaders had the time of
their lives during twelve days of last
July.
In addition to all this we hold hikes
and bicycle trips, indoor and outdoor
athletic meets and games, social stunts,
group feeds. and committeemen's ban
quets. Forty-four boys served on COM
mittees; twenty-five boys were leaders
in the physical work; twelve taught
Bible classes of younger boys, six re-
ceiyed special training at the boys
conference at Lake Geneva; fifteen
boys compose the present cabinet.
These, under the direction of the de-
partment advisory committee organize
and promote this growing work.
Educational and Religious Depts.
r. ". Boggess, director; M. N.
Hatcher. chairman.
! The educational work for the year