The Washington herald., 1920-01-25
WAR RISK GIRLS
BOASTOF GOOD
ATHLETICCLUB'
Universal Training and
Sporting Activities Reg
ular Program.
HAVE CAPABLE COACH
Miss Ina M. Barding Directs
Athletics for 1900
Women Clerks.
HAVE CAPABLE COACH
BE JOHN A. DUGAN.

Athletic directors of colleges
and high schools are continually
whimpering about the gigantic
task of coaching representative
teams in all branches of sports,
as many are compelled to also
direct athletic activities for their
student bodies. Coaching athletic
teams and directing athletic ac-
tivities are separate and distinct,
but many coaches are compelled
to do both. The scholastic and
collegiate ranks locally can be
t-Nen as a good example, and
bshington can boast of some of
&c best in the country.
In most cases where the student
odies run into the four columns
II figures these directors of
;letics coach one or two sports,
nile they are given assistants
10 are paid good salaries for
4ecializing this or that depart
-ent of athletic, training.
Coaches for Varsity.
FOLLOWING this plan the burden of
Eiversal training so highly endorsed
by Secretary of War Newton D. Baker
and other government officials is lift
ed on the shoulders of the hired
coach. so that he may pound the finer
points of the game into tfre dense
Drain of the athleticly built candi-
dates Of the representative team, with
esult that the varsity, as the repre-
entative eleven. nine. quint or cinder
tn teams are better known, is
ven the greatest attention. The
Ssakling student of under weight and
L 5der ability of making these first
string teams is casted aside and al
lowed to mix into the driftwood of
healthy cheering section.
But right here in the Capital, under
the guiding hand of our own Uncle
sam, there is one athletic director
I'D coach who is undertaking a
igantic task of directing and
eaching 100. Yes, and 1,5OO athlet-
sally inclined girls at that. This fair
enthusiastic devotee of the athletic
1Horld is no other than Miss Ina Mil
dred Barding. of Chicago. ILL.,. late of
the Northwestern University.
EnthusiastIc Coach.
Never is there a whimper from Miss
Barding. She is over-enthusiastic
about her work. She goes into il
with the pep and vim that would put
many of our college coaches to shame.
She dreams of. and plans her activi-
ties during spare moments il such a
thing as spare moments are possible
Making hay while the sun shines is
a leading motto of her vocabulary of
action as she punches through her
new plans with such rapidity that her
own little 1900 student body become
ardent and enthusiastic slaves.
Something new every minute and
action every second is another rea-
son why the girls of the War Risk
Insurance Bureau are crazy about
war work" and judged in the +
street and Connecticut avenue parades
as the best looking of Uncle Sammy.s
fair clerks. To their little athletic di-
rector and coach goes the credit of
lifting the grind of monotonous Of
fee work.
An Athletic Girl.
Miss Bardlng Is an ideal athletic
girl. having medals and trophies for
athletic competitions. In 1917 Miss
Bardink won the all-around cham
pionship at Northwestern University
in competition with more than 2o0
girls. while at basketball and hockey
she was looked upon as without an
equal Miss Brading. although very
Iodest and unassuming in speaking
OF her own endeavors is what sport
fans would term a bug" when she
hnds time TO talk of athletics and
sports or anything pertaining to this
little world of physical training.
Although she loves to tell of the
powers of various girl athletes who
now make up her representative
seams she always insists on her pet
hobby of universal training. She re-
fuses to take any of the credit of
building up the athletic training which
now a daily feature for the girls
] 4 the War Risk Bureau. She gives
oil. Max Wainer. the athletic director
the bureau, credit for all activities
and claims. II it was not for his un-
iring efforts War Risk would not
have had its championship teams and
could not even hope for the greater
things which will result from uni-
versal training.