The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-24
THE BEST THERE is
Plans OF instructions for All Sports
AfieId.

Every platoon of every company IN
60 E,ns+on is going to have an,
opnor+11nitv to have the best 1nstruc-
tion that can be given by the physlGai
directory of the various UNITS o.
V M G A on every phase OF atn-
Ietics according to Mr.. George Il
Goss- head physical director of the u
MT, Goss is planning to run the
schedules and the instruction on am
letics by smaller divisions OIL Iie 80
pany in order that there VIII DC NJ
man that will not be enabled TO par
ticipate in some sort of athletlcs-
Each company now has a man IN
charge of athletics and 1t Is the pan
of the head athletic director TO nave
~ nbvsical directors of the various
''Y' buildings take up the matter OF
dividing still further to work IN sthe
companies. All the work done uhuer
the Jurisdiction of the Y M. T. "A
directors is done voluntarily oy Ing
men. The interest and success OF
the athletics of any company Is just
what the men in the particular COM
pany want to make it
According to the plan upon Whlch
Mr.. Goss is working there VIII pc a
man selected in each platoon OF the
COMPANIES and this man Will ald IN
the instruction and scheduling OF ms
teams with the representatives OF the
other platoons in the company from
the four teams, thus formed, IN each
company, a head company director
will likely pick out a team as rep
resentative team for the company
The company team, as time goes on
and the proper training can De gwen
will be trained to meet the teams
from other companies. Teams from
each regiment will be formed in a
like manner and big schedules are
planned for the future:
Every company will be supplied
with a schedule sheet. now in prepa-
ration in order that members OF the
company can see from day TO DAY,
lust how their teams are coming out
with the others The schedules are
so arranged that a glance at the sheet
will show the proper comparison pc
tween the company and their oppon-
ents They will show the time and
place of the next football game, soccer
game, one-legged race, high jump,
etc, and can be preparing ahead in
all their spare moments for the event
It is not the plan to have all games
played within one week for it may
take months to finish the schedule on
the teams that are enthusiastic about
proving their superiority in the vari-
Gus branches of athletics. Today
there may be a football game between
the first and second platoons of the
company, the third and fourth and the
winners of the two games must later
tangle. Soccer will be played in a
like manner and all other branches
will follow. The main idea is to get
definite schedules working so that the
men can be preparing for the events
in which they wish to enter.
In running off the schedules of
some of the branches, points will not
only be given on the winners but on
the number of men in the event and
maybe on the number of men in the
try-outs- The interest. in the teams
representing the platoon or company
in which the man is in is of great val
ue. for the man who is interested in
athletics will sooner or later get into
some branch and may become quite a
proficient man and hero for his or
Eanization.
The work of the Y. NJ. C. a. physi-