The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-30
"A STORY OF SUBS RETREAT FOR B. N
but Real Y NJ C. A. Has Prolonged
Laundry Tale. of Many TOpekans
Family i'm the Rounds Indoor Exercise Winter
of a Wagon Driver. Physical Value.
TEN MILES TO PAIR OF SOCKS ONE MAN LOST 100 POUND
MiIady Snies Twelve And Others Are Now Reducin
Times to a Mile. Their Waist Lines.
Topeka Enrolment Increases in A
Shirt Years Classes
Y. Nj. C. A. Has Prolonged Lives
of Many TOpekans.
Indoor Exercise for Winter of
Physical Value.
ONE MAN LOST 100 POUNDS
And Others Are Now Reducing
Their Waist Lines.
Enrolment Increases i'm All
Years Classes.

Golf IN the summer and the Y. NJ
c. A gymnasium work in the winter
are getting to be permanent fixtures
IN the life of the average business
men. If you don't believe it Just
glance over the enrolment for the
Business Mems class at the Central
Y NJ c. A You will see there the
names of some 125 Topeka business
lawyer, merchant, insurance agents,
etc
An interesting bundle of testimony
as TO the value of winter exercise has
been gathered by Ralph Knapp, ply
steal director at the ~" by this fairs
enrolment. One man who had Just
renewed his membership testified that
II he was to have a happy home he
lust had to join the Y. NJ. c. A. Close
observation has convinced his better
half that hubby came home with lust
twice as sweet a temper and a frame
or mind when he had been gamboIfne
on the gym floor, than when he came
directly home from the office. There
quality of the cookery and probably
less ire over the millinery bills Hence
the wifely decree.
He Lots 100 Pounds.
Another modern miracle was found
IN the testimony of a local advertise
ing man of the city. A few years ago
he was SO fat that he had to carefully
gauge the width of a door before he
attempted entering He had an ua-
comfortable feeling when in public
A friend told him of the handball
court at the "Y." In fourteen months
ne mad lost nearly 100 pounds had
narrowed his waist line twelve inches
and altogether was in the best con-
dition that he had been since his salad
days. And now he is the local hand
Tall champion.
One optician who fifteen years ago
was nearly physical wreck and il
now one of the most active of the
volleybau experts of the association il
only too ready to tell of his benefits
The stoop of long years OF combining
work has almost vanished, he has a
chest measurement above the average
and he describes himself to his friends
as younger that he was fifteen years
ago."
There is an array of similar testi-
monials in the possession of Mr.
Knapp as long the testimony list
of patent medicine.
Three Classes.
Three business mems classes have
been organized for the winter and il
the enrolment increases much more.
as it threatens to do, another one will
classes will be the high school boys
class which meets three afternoons a
week. Especially active work has been
planned for them and the advance in
everything from basketball to swim
ming tournaments. The largest en-
rollment will probably be in the Older
and younger Junior classes. These
classes are scheduled for after-school
hours and Saturday morning. The
work in these latter classes Is to be
of a competitive nature, I'm recognition
Of the fact that at that a~e rivalry
is one of the strongest incentives to
the boy.
An Age of Dancing.
This is dancing age. The fact that.
the special class in gymnastic and folk
dancing meets with favor in q Y. NJ
C. A. is all the proof necessary.
Special classes in wrestling and
sparring Will be organized and these
under a special instructor. They will
be started some time in October and
the term will end just before Christ
mas.
Devotees of handball insist that the
game is going to take the Y. NJ. C. A.
by storm this winter as IL has done In
Y. NJ. C. AS and athletic clubs all
over the country. A new handbaIi
court has just been completed and a
preliminary tournament will be started
soon.
An indoor survey is being taken OF
the ''Y'' to ascertain whether 1t will
be possible to establish an indoor golf
driving course.