The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-25
R~oundedAthleticP Program
Launched A High School

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some day be the only talent he
would have-and he wanted good ia.
lent. And so they grew up . and
for the last six or eight years,
Bloome's Phantom Aces have been
state champions. Now he has the
sad pleasure of knowing every
school in the state is scared of his
gang.
Another Example
Another example of what earl
training brings in the long run
During the 1920's many Of the la1
er grammar schools had physical
education departments. The height
of the program was reached in 1925
and 1929. The Wildcats we're state
champs those two successive years
in basketball and football.
They would have continued to do
inmate the states sports parade had
the foundation remained unmolest
ed.
So now it must be done all ove1
again. Each ponderous moving COG
started up. -.
Coach Black had nine grammar
school football teams this fall play
ing out regular schedules. There
are now II girls and boys basket
ball TENS from nearly all schools
battling it out almost daily in as
well-oiled leagues as one could fine
in a days march.
With spring coming on, a
seventh and eighth grades will be
organized for softball while t h {
eighth grade boys will have a hare
ball loop.
The program will be fittingly end
ed in May, Black said, with a gigan
tic field day in which hundreds will
participate.
But where are the girls? What
preparations have been made fol
their well-being? Their games
Their place in the sports parade.
With the opening of the present
session of school this fall a clas.
in health was installed. Three hund
red and seventy-five freshmen ant
sophomore girls enrolled. AS eX
plotted in a recent article, this clas!
is to develop emotional control
good craftsmanship, fair play, ane
a knowledge of team games a n /
play.
Taught All Games
They will be taught basketball
volley ball, softball, badminton, sec.
Ger and other recreational games
An annual spring harvest of heal
thy, sports-loving, talented girls =:
assured.
Directly under Blacks super
sion r a number of %Well-drille(
and experienced coaches. Relmo1
Robinson a n d Floyd Bumgarnel
have had the football reins TO,
several years. Bumgarner and I. A
McCary have controlled the base
ball situation for two season. N a
Pepper is rounding out his secont
year as basketball coach, and Ho
ward Mcdonald recently completed
his fourth term as boxing instruc
tor. For nearly a decade slim
Bloome has produced his champion
ship tennis clubs. Now he has al
assistant, Leo Burks, who became
member of the faculty in the fall
Tileston's Miss Gertrude Moore i
the only full-time physical educa
ton instructor in t h e gramma
grades. However, several of t h
teachers in the larger schools hav'
classes in physical ed.
There is a tremendous amour
of material here in this school," tn
director of athletics pointed out
Our problem is to get it in uni
form. 1t is too late to do much witt
the juniors and seniors, but we ar
already getting results from invit
ing the eighth graders in for sprini
football last year.
TT was a means of discoverin
several men who made the squa
this fall and will very likely max
the team when the 1910 season come
on"
: But no matter how intensive tn
; drive becomes for massive tear
squads, and no matter the natur
of the training, Wilmington - GU
7 reopranhic 1ocation-iS a handicaI
Right in the Center
Durham, Raleigh, Greensboro ar
right in the center of the homelan
of some of the nations greatest foot
ball teams. A high school lad, wit
his penchant for hero worship, pick
himself a hero on the Duke squa
and patterns his style after hin
> He copies his way Of broken-fiel
running, of punting, Of blocking. H
imagines himself a pretty darn goo
carbon copy of the collegiate glar
and the chances are that h
r is a smoother, more s~cintillating per
. former because of It.
High school football has grow
: apace since the 1920's. In those day
championships were determined o
elimination and, more or less, a con
= parison of scores. Today, with tn
blanket coverage of the class "A
conferences, the selection of TT
champ is indisputable. You're on to
until you're beaten.
BLACK is no glib generalizer abol