The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-04-14
GOLFERS ON
WALL SCALING
NEW ATHLETIC STUNT FOR
WOMEN WILL BE DEMONSTRATE
ED AT THE GRADE SCHOOL
GYMNASIUM EXHIBIT IN FAR
GO THIS WEEK.

The wall scaling contests for women
as recently introduced into the ath-
letic world by DR.. Dudley A. Sargent
of Harvard university are of more
than ordinary interest. The event is
a spectacular one in which daring and
skill predominant, but simply to add
one more feat to those which women
may accomplish in the gymnasium
has not been DR.. Sargent's motive in
developing this.
DR.. Sargent's observation has been
and he has followed year after veal
the careers Of many hundreds of
young women-that success comes not
SO often to the girl Of unusual mental
equipment as to the girl who has the
physical capacity to stand the con
tinued and rough assaults of the bust
ness n professional world. Whether
a woman is to be the centre Of a home
and the mother Of children, or is to be
the efficient assistant Of a business
man, her success will be commensur-
ate with her physical ability.
If this appears to be a somewhat
sweeping statement we should ask
ourselves in what physical ability
really consists? To be more explicit
what does it mean for twelve girls to
put themselves over a perpendicular
wall, twelve feet high in sixty seconds
without ropes, ladders or help of, any
kind? There are many brawny ath-
letes among the college men who could
not accomplish such a feat as quickly
and so gracefully.
The girls who succeeds best in a
test of this kind are those whose
minds are as alert and resourceful as
their bodies.
This Is only another way Of saying
that we can lot train the body with
out training the mind at the same
time.
All athletics in which courage. re-
so~urcefulness and alertness are es-
s~entials are the ones which our
modern civilization requires.
rs not ordinary bread-winning to-
day ~strenuous?' asks DR.. Sargent
Throughout life we are contestins
with the abilities and brains of others
hence the value of such athletics as
wall scaling in which it is the best
girls who are assigned the most. diff
cult parts and in which the best team
wins. DR.. Sargent insists that women
nave heretofore been handicapped in
their careering by their inability tc
cooperate properly. In other words
they have failed in team play. ReaIiz-
Ing this situation he has for many
years been introducing into his gym
nasium and has been the exponent OF
those games In which the success de-
ponds upon, team play. Wall scaling
perhaps more than any other event
develops the spirit Of cooperation, one
girl is poWerless to get over the wall
without the expert assistance OF 9th
ers. Cooperation rather than an
tagonism," Is the keynote of the train.
ing, DR.. Sargent advocates for won.
en-. "' ~ ~
The procedure followed in wall
scaling Is as follows: cat a given
signal the team of twelve girls rushes
Come to the grade school gymnasium
exhibit n see the Aagssix team dc
this for yourself.
The Agassiz w~alI-sca1ing team is
Genevieve McPhaiI, captain; Alice
Hoover, Evelyn Patterson, Dori.
Lowell, Catherine Blake, Helen Rad.
cliffe, Helen Jordan. Mabel Ward, Adj
Chapman, Francis Hurbburt. Levetts
Cline and Lydia Haefner. They will
give a demonstration both Thursda!
and Saturday evenings.