The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-05-23

GU uuiiHS Tie SSdSoL.
The basketball team season was one
of the most successful FOR several
years. This team met and defeated the
high school team for the city cham
pionship. The boxing and wrestling
classes for seniors we're popular, "a
having been enrolled. $50 boys and
rs men were entered in classes during
the winter season.
There were 313 class sessions with
a total attendance Of 6,557, while
those who made use of all the physi-
cal department privileges, including
baths and bowling, numbered 1892.
Fourteen different basketball teams
played sixty games. Two gymnasium
exhibitions were held. Extension
work was organized and supervised by
the physical director for the grade
school boys, among whom | basketball
teams We're selected, representing the
schools and total Of 81 games play
ed. This season Ia teams Of grade
school boys, among whom II basketball
and parochial schools are organized
and being daily directed in clean
sport. The moral effect of providing
wholesome recreation and seeing that
it is conducted in all ways honorably
is for the boys of incalculable value.
The general work of the association
has leut itself to cooperating with
the churches in promoting the Men
and Religion Forward Movement
which opened with a supper at the
Coliseum attended by 2S8 men and
which continued with several insti-
tutes on boys work in the churches
upon approved and up-to-date methods
Of service. A regular monthly meet
ing of Sunday school teachers of boys
classes is permanent result. Last
spring the association secured physi-
clan of national reputation who adj
dressed 1000 boys and adults upon the
subject of personal purity and hygiene.
A daily series of socials and games
and tournaments were conducted dur
ing the holidays, including an open
house reception on New Year s day
under the auspices of the Ladies
Auxiliary, and banquet to the boys
home from college. The average daily
attendance at the building has been.
200. Socials and dinners to the num-
Der Of 50 have been given. Sixty
nine men have been provided rooms
in the building for both permanent
and transient use. About one hundred
young men have been directed to
rooms in good homes in the city. En-
ployment was secured for nineteen.
AS the Young Mems Christian As
ISOLATION is public institution it is
only right that the public should be
informed upon it's expense. The year
ly expense for the association fiscal
year MAY 1st to May 1st) has been
$7,70449. Receipts from membership,
room rent and game fees, amounted
to $5,10006. Subscriptions totaling
$2,604.42 met the balance of expense,
or in other words in our present mea-
ger equipment the association is two
thirds self supporting. On the basis
of the number of members and the
annual expense the yearly cost of
membership is fifteen dollars, of which
receipts covered SO, and the business
men generously met the difference by
subscribing what amounted to So per
member. A few comparative figures in
this connection are interesting. For a
boy or young man committed to State
institution the annual expense to the
county, as given by the Blue Book, is
at the industrial school at Waukesha
$1970S; at the State Reformatory at
Green Bay $17S.8S; and at the state
public school at Sparta $290.l6. With
out bringing into consideration the
hundreds OF, boys and men who have
been developing character and clean
manhood, the secretaries can give the
instances of dozen or more boys who
have been saved from becoming pub
lie charges through the influence of
the association and which alone ,iusti-
fly the expense of the association to.
the community.
The above outline of what has been
done in the past year in quarters too
frequently crowded to overlooking
making necessary the appropriation of
dormitory rooms, the going outside for
two-thirds of the educational work and
the limitation and the exclusion of all
too many things which those ia charge
are willing and anxious to promote
reveals the possibility of a modern
building for the Young Mems Chris
tian Association.