The Washington herald., 1921-09-25
Boys Club Mou
Launched Upon
, Full Activities

The Boys Club has just passed a
very successful summer.> The boys
have been kept busy Noing useful
things instead of just loafng, as
boys SO often do In the summer
time. The principle activities were
baseball. athletics, hikes. shower
baths and many of the indoor
games, such as pool, checkers, bas-
kerry. etc.
The Boys Club summer camp was
full to capacity during its entire
season. The camp was operated
under the supervision of DR.. w. A.
neil, superintendent of the club.
afforded some ffty-six boys an op-
portunity to get next to nature and
have a real vacation. The camp
was situated on the Potomac River
just above the Aqueduct Bridge,
which made 1t possible for many
more boys to get up for short Pc
riods and have a good swim and a
chance to I6de in the boats.
Membership.
The Boys Club is a strictly nom
sectarian organization, run to help
the boys physically, mentally and
morally. There are now 421 boys
enrolled. The boys library consists
of about 700 books and the boys are
allowed to take books home to read.
The boys have organized Ha-
waiian orchestra and hope to be in
shape to do a great deal of playing
during the winter
The club is run on a self-govern-
fT1c nj n ha tW,er oil
and patterned after the Federal
government. In that way the boys
learn to be better and cleaner cit
izens. The boy officers meet every
week and talk over the work of the
club, plan new work and make the
laws. The social department of the
club Is planning for regular week.
ly socials. to get the boys together
for a good sing and a general good
time. We are also hoping to be able
to secure a moving picture machine
to have weekly movies in the club
for the boys.
New Press for Printing Class.
A new press has been bought for
the printing class so the boys will
now have two presses 10 work on
and be able to turn out a very
much better grade of work, as the
old press was not large enough to
meet the needs of the class.
The American Multigraphing Ma
chine Company has very kindly
donated a multigraphing machine
A proficient teacher has been Sc
cured and the boys are now sign
ing up and 1t is expected that this
will be one of the best lines In the
Industrial department.
A pool championship tournament
was run for the older boys in. the
club. There were about thirtyboys
signed up and some very close
games were played. The cham
pionship was finally won. however.
by Elmer Hall. his opponent being
Edward Payne, The final score
was rs to 21.
Junior Pool Championship Won by
Rothery.
The junior pool championship
was decided upon to give the small
boys an opportunity to develop
their skill The boys took a great
deal of interest in all of the
games. The final game was played
lari. There were many spectators
~ ScC AhC hhdi game, WHICH was
won by Chester Rothery.
Or. NeH Takes Vacation.
During his short vacation DR..
Neil, superintendent of the club.
locked at several places as possible
sites. for a permanent summer
camp and a place for winter hikes,
as 1t was deemed advisable to have
larger camp next year. One site
was located and we are in bones m
be able to make arrangements for
a big boys camp early next sum-
mer
The Industrial department, which
was closed during the hot summer
months. has just reopened. The
work accomplished by the boys in
the different industries last year
was very much praised but we are
hoping to do a very much more ex-
tensive work this year. The boys
are all very anxious to get in and
DO something snd the classes are
filling up very fast.