Evening star., 1925-01-18

This new ruling goes into effect the
first game following the regular
monthly council meeting, slated for
the last Monday in the month. To
date, there have been just two mem
bers of the basket ball league to take
the initiative in this matter and re-
Quire their players to undergo a
thorough examination. Familiarity
with the ideals and principles of
these members would lead one to
rightly choose the Webster aggre-
CATION. representing the Marjorie
Webster School of Expression and Phys
ical Education and the Nets of the
progressive Metropolitan Club.
The Importance of physical exam
ination is being recognized through
out this country, and in all modern
communities the world over. Accu-
rate thinkers, people of foresight and
vision are urging physical vigor, not
as an ultimate end or goal, but as an
Immediate objective, a means to
other ends and high ideals. The body
is a chassis, An instrument or means
through which the owners self finds
expression in all his or her work and
thoughts. 1t is therefore important
20 keep this body ready to tune in
with the impressions and expressions
of the outside world. In the fertile
soileof the normal mind and body di-
rected by an understanding coach
with high ideals, athletics will keep
in tone or recreate the individual, or
in an unfavorable environment, will
destroy and dissipate the resistance
of the individual. Athletics, as other
potent forces, embodies tremendous
power for good or evil.
Contrary to the popular belief that
a highly Intelligent mind is most
r,
statistics presented at Columbia Uni
versity In the Spring Of 1928 showed
the reverse to be true.
Another knotty problem which
faces the council and one which
again and again comes up In in
formal discussions on the side lines
of the present basket ball series is
the matter of coaches. Once more
the majority supports the stand
| taken by the women's division of
the National Amateur Athletic FEEDER
| alton, that of limiting coaches as we'll
| as officials to women and preferably
to those women trained in technical
knowledge and possessing worthy
| objectives. When this has been ac-
| complished one may look for bask ct
| ball and other sports on a higher
| plain in the catalogue of human in
tercourse. The Marjorie Webster
| Metropolitan game is a good example
| of what might be expected. Both
teams are coached by women, yet that
game will stand out this season as
/ one ombining steady and clever
| playing with the highest type OF
| sportsmanship.
Junior High Field Meet.
| Now that the basket ball season is
| we'll under way the directors of phys
teal education of the several junior
high schools are looking forward tc
their Spring program. The main poini
at issue is the annual inter-JunioI
High Spring meet. The nature of the
occasion automatically determines
upon which sports the most stress will
be laid both in class time and ir
the after-schoof period, for ii is In
these hours that the girls are coached
for the "grande finale" and 1t is ir
this situation that the aims and OBJ
jectives are found. 1t is the hope oi
these directors, by anticipating this
event, to present to the girls a meet
differing from that of last years, {
meet involving higher detectives.
The inter scholastic field and tract
meet of last June was the first in tn,
annals of the District junior higf
schools. AS is usual with initial en-
lterprises of many organizations. there