The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-10-01
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Kentucky exp,cts one of the most
prosperous of football years In her
whole existence. Her progress In this
line has been very noticeable in the
last ten years until now she is one Of
the uppermost In the greatest Of all
college sports. She has not less than
a half dozen teams that might be COM
pared with any average football team
and 1t the proud possessor Of one that
ranks with the best in the country.
A marked improvement has been
noticed also in the development Of
high school football in that same
perior for no other reason thatn the
spirit has been handed down from the
college and a desire to fill our own
colleges with Kentucky athletes rather
than be dependent on men non-resi-
dent Of the state to win her honors.
No other school is more backward
in this line than old Maysville High
School. She has maintained her stand
ard with the best of them in education,
having branched out to domestic
science and manual training in the
past few years and even lately has
installed the moving picture process of
teaching but where, oh where, are her
athletics, her baseball, her football,
her track and basketball? She has
been able to keep up enthusiasm in
basketball to certain degree but her
superiority in this line has been but
anything to boast of in the past six
or eight years. And what may the rea-
son be? Pure and simple for no other
than the lack of an athletic director
whose duty it is to spend his entire
time in the interest of athletics. There
was time when the Board of Educa-
tion in the selection of the faculty for
the coming year tried to select a man
amcng the teachers who had had suf-
ficient experience in playing on COL
lege teams to take the part of a coach
for the students in the different
branches of sports. But even in that
case sports were failure for there is
no man who can spend the entire day
in discharging of duties in the class
room and then make success of any
sport by putting in the balance of the
day on that sport.
All the schools the size of Maysvlle
High school and scores of them small
er have athletic directors who act in
no other capacity than to take charge
of sports and it is his duty to teach
every individual that might be litter
ested in any sport from the very time
he or she may enter school, and in
that way you have surplus of ma
terial coming on to supplant those that
graduate. Even Carlisle surpasses
Maysville in school athletics for she
has football team, something we
have not had for about seven years
and one thing we have never had to
be proud of and yet it is the most
profitable of any school sport. The
proceeds of football alone usually are
large enough to cover all other ex-
pense In sports. Look down the roster
Of athletes and see If you can find the
name of Maysville boy as an appli-
cant for a position on any football
team nthe country and you can not
but see how many, are from Paris,
Lexington, Somerset, Cynthiana, and
hundreds Of other towns not bit bet
ter than Maysville. Is not that some
thing to be ashamed Of?
Regardless of whose duty it is and
whose duty has been neglected GER
tainly there must be someone inter-
ested who will start this movement
and put Maysville High in place
among the other high schools of the
state in athletics. In other words start
a movement whereby one person will
have full charge of the sports of the
school and that to be his sole duty.