Evening star., 1919-04-27
Equipped With Tennis Courts.

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! Equipped With Tennis Courts.
/ Present plans, which it is hoped will
be actually carried into effect June l,
| at least the major part aof them, call
! FOR a complete athletic GROUND. equip
. ped with base ball field. volley ball
/; and tennis courts, places for medicine
! ball work and the quieter sports. and
seats beneath trees, the whole ground
to be surrounded by cinder track.
In conjunction with this athletic
! field will be the swimming pool. eighty
| by thirty-three feet. to be located near
| the present gymnasium. Work is
scheduled to start on the pool within
several days. The outdoor dancing
pavilion is proposition which has
entered the heads of several women
who are enga ged in teaching and help
ing the boys learn to dance in the
| gymnasium. a proposition which Off
| GERS and officials in general at the
hospital seem to think is d good one.
Dancing in open Air.
Dancing in the open air. on a pa
wilton floor at least fifty by f,fty feet.
+ with probably the post band playing,
and surrounding gallery OF wounded.
! would be one OF the daily afternoon
features all summer long at the hos
pital, it is felt, and one which would
| be productive OF great good to the
men. especially those In need OF Just
such exercise
T. C ,nvalescent men are somewhat
! timid about starting in to learn IN
dance. or to learn how to dance all
! over again with new leg. perhapI
! or an arm missing. 1t is believed
/ that IL the work can be carried on
| out of doors and the men induced to
come and watch the dancing. Just to
| hear the music il nothing else. such
| bashful ones will finally get into the
| game"
Lieut.. Freddie Welsh. lightweight
! pugilist and health expert along ath-
! letic lines. has general supervision OF
! these various means for making and
keeping the Waiter Reed &c, oonvaies ai,,s,
ssnts sa4k he sea'!aE X aided bs Hsut sohnnse
i Johnson, for fourteen years assistant
| to Coach Stage At tho University OF
| Chicago and recently at aviation
/ fields in the south.
| Red Cross Workers in Charge.
! Two Red Cross workers have
/ charge Of the dancing classes held
each afternoon In the gymnasium.
where the reconsructive athletic
1 work is conducted each morning by
1 Lieut.. welsh ana MS aSSlStdnt3 nc
| head Of the gymnasium speaks
| highly Of the work done in the dane
! ing classes it being part Of the
play spirit. which. he is creat ing. at
I the hospital.
Special remedial exercises devised
! by Lieut.. Welsh are given cfasees
/ every day in the gymnasium; At
| present thirty-four arm patients"
are exercised, beginning at Q o'clock
each morning. and sfxty-one leg pa
, tfents," beginning at 10 O'CLOCK
With the introduction OF compulsory
gymnasium work several thousand
| men would be in training In one
| form or another.
! 1t is only after a patient has oeen
| treated by the surgeons and given spe-
i cial treatment in the physio- therapy
ward that he is graduated to the
gymnasium, to Be put through the spe-
cial remedial exercises. Every care IS
! taken to see that the exercises are gwen
! to At the man, not the man made 10 nj
/, the exercises In this gymnasium no
''feats' are attempted. but every enort
| is made to give the man just such ex-
ercises as will put the old KICK PACK
| into a dropped foot" as 1t fs called. or
put the punch back into a droppea
| hand -
Exercises Made Simple.
The simplest of such exercises con-
sists OF the patient pushing as hard as
he can, which is not very hard, against
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