The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-07-13
MISS CARTER IN GAMES, TOO
Director Of Play Gives zest to Some
Games by Getting Into Them Is
a Busy Place as Many Games Are
L. Progress at Once.

Say, Miss Carter, won It you play
With us now8 Them boys can keep
their own score" Such was one of
the many invitations which Miss Wini-
fred Carter, director of play on The
Durkee grounds, received this morning
This one came from a freckle faced,
bareheaded individual, somewhere near
the age of ten, as Miss Carter was seat
ed on the edge of the sandpile, keeping
ball scores for the inter school league
that was staging a game by the Dur
kee VS.. Columbus, and at the same time
keeping her eye on half dozen kid
dies gamboling in the sand.
Miss Carter got one of the "big fell
lows" in bare feet and knickerbockers
and seersucker blouse to act as score
keeper while she went off to organize
a call ball game for fifteen youngsters
who had tired of their other play and
wanted Miss Carter to play with them.
There is so much more zest to a game
when teacher" is in it.
Miss Carter Is SIT"
So the children ranged themselves
in a circle and Miss Carter was cit"
first. She stood in the center after
each had been given a number, pitched
her big, soft ball upward, calling Six I"
as she did so. Six lunged forward,
caught the ball in his brown hands with
his brown eyes all of sparkle from ex-
element, and a wide smile showing his
white teeth He was now 'tit' and
the game was well under way.
Another group had relay race and
it was as exciting as any turf event
ever pulled before crowded grand
stand with judges aloft ringing stop"
bells and jockeys gay in green and red
hats whirling their horses and trying
again and again until fair start could
be managed.
This race was team against team. A
dozen were Cones" and as many more
Fftwos.n
Root Like 'Rah 'Rah Boys.
When Miss Carter footed her police
mans whistle one from each team raced
emit directions, amid screams of the
rooters on our side, - who howled and
danced up ard down as they shriekei
their admonitions to ''runl' Hurry, }"
eco, Kidd - and the like.
AS these two reached the lines each
respectively touched the hand of the
next on his side who was to make the
run and away went these two, while
The returned runners joined the rooters
So each had his turn and turn about at
running and roofing, and legs and
lungs were equally exercised beside all
kinds of team spirit being developed.
Sandpile for Them.
The little children prefer the sand
pile to games, and build wonderful cit
les with streets all shaded with nice
little trees made from leaves stuck in
the sand along the curbs, and peopled
with nice little people, made from bits
of sticks, walking up and down the
streets, and embellished with parks and
rich with houses where pebbles stuck in
the little sand structure make very
excellent windows.
Some of the children come barefooted,
some discard shoes after they get there
and some, regretfully, sacrifice comfort
to convention and manfully and wo-
manly resist the temptation to pull off
shoes and socks and pad about with bare
feet in the soft sand.
IF Durkee playground is a sample of
what is being done on the other
grounds, and those in charge say it is,
there is many a youngster in Kenosha
who is enjoying happy, halcyon days
this vacation as he learns the joys of
supervised play.