The Washington bee., 1911-06-17
JUSTICE WENDELL PHILLIPS STAFFORD
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which the mental, moral and physical
parts Of man were considered and de-
yeloped in modern schemes OF eduCa-
ton. Physical training IS d necessary
phase, and as Dean Moore said, The
system based on the three RS just
so years old The l. S. A. A trophy
and individual medals were awarded
the schools and athletes. DR.. Evans,
Dr. Moore. Messrs. Compton, Cowar,
Washington, Mattingly and Hender-
son were on the platform.
The splendid exhibition directed by
Miss Anita Turner, Director of Ply
steal Training in the Colored Schools,
held at True Reformers' Hall, was a
.tr creGtd1ic entertainment and
showed briefly how much work can
be done among girls when suitable
2ymnaSlumS exist in the community.
Human vanity plays as large part
in the activities of an athletic nature
among girls as with their brothers.
Praise for special exhibitions of skill
Is as pleasing to girl athlete as to
others. Too many prim and trim gen
teel ladies among us advise against
girls doing the things athletic with
coarse, and many a girl grows to
WomanhoOd but poor excuse for the
healthy bTOadminded woman she NAV
have become. We need but note the
athletic careers of Miss Taft, Miss
Sutton, Miss Eleanor Vanderbilt and
many thousand more to observe the
falslty of the notion Throughout
the country girls on Fairgrounds are
being taught to play team games that
the cooperative lessons learned there
by may further add TO womans pow
er in modern civilization Let us en-
courage physical sports for girls along
with the attainments at whist and So
ciety
NJ Street High School faculty
played Armstrong faculty baseball
team and won 20 to 10 In the first
inning, Armstrong Profs were unable
to make an ont, and NJ Street scored
II runs. HeaveS were made into cen
terheld, bleaChers and backstops.
Judgment was rare (raw). With men
on first and third balls propelled by
the mighty arm of the catcher sailed
over second into centerheld Fielders
held balls until bases were clear and
tnally the side was retired when the
pitcher had famed four batters. Not
dismayed Armstrong braced and be-
gan to WELD the willow effeCtually.
with the result that they were several
times in the lead before the game was
over. Menard, of NJ Street, got a
home run, and Henderson got a home
run, a three-bagger, two two-baggers
and single. Wilkinson, Williams,
Murray and Cromwell were strong all
over. The game showed a few flashes
still left of the scintillating blaze that
once sparkled about the diamond he
roes, now but "reminiscences of former
selves.
At the annual business meeting of
the Inter-SchOlastic Athletic Associa-
ton last week at Howard University,
Haley @. Douglass, of NJ Street High
School, was elected president for the
ensuing year Numerous plans for
broadening the work Of the AssOcia-
tion were suggested and will be car
ried out
The Executive Committee recon-
mended that football among its secon-
dairy school members be taken over
as one of the sports under the juris-
diction Of the |. S. a. A. The cham
plOnship basket ball season will COM
mence in December and close before
the 22d of February.
An indoor and outdoor track meet
will be held in season, and cross-coun- |
try runs and swimming contests will
be further developed
The following officers were elected
and committees appointed: President |
Haley c. Douglass, of NJ Street High |
School; vice-president, Benjamin |
of Armstrong Technical |
High School; vice-president, J. A. B |
Calls, Baltimore High School; re-
cording secretary, Samuel Compton |
Technical High School
corresponding secretary, William A /
De Catur, Howard University; treas
urer, Garnet c. Wilkinson, NJ Street /
High School; general manager, Edwin