| Show I COX TALKS OP OF POOL I lean sail helter rhall 11 Cox ox of the Y M MC MA C A b bus pre prepared for publication the following statement relative to the ot r pool Ott on association pram prem Ip attending day school un dr dc 18 years 11 of age AIle and over oer 16 ma maI flay I 1001 Je and nd billiards billiard dally daily until nUl 6 11 I J III It and In addition until on oil evenings All other bo boho boys ho are In d day school hool and WIder this age ac are re allowed to 10 pIa play only upon the I PresentatIon or of a game card bearing the of the aH social 11 director who consults i Ith parents tn in incase case of any doubt li Un ue der 18 1 who work during th thu day may play pIa at such neb houri houn th thy can up to p m and d provided they ha have a anle card cardOne cardOne One ot of I the he boys boya Who I ii In court has halt n R a of the association aloes lo anti nd hall lis for over a year played pool end billiard lie He will be 18 years tans of Pt In March The second ond boy b ba never been a member ot of the tIton dation and MY that II he learned to play two yr years a ago tn In T Twin In Falls Fall Idaho and nd 1 been In th the Y M C A Aon on only I once nl The thIrd boy It not been beena a member of tim tb for tor but ba has corn com to 10 the build buIlding In A te few times In the last few tew months h haa haas aa aas a as a guest of other boys and on of the occasions h he played pool or T Two years ago In company with on one of nt tb hit leet t prominent of the c city t We negated lb 16 high school buys boy In pool a anti and billiard room at t In the afternoon n It seemed that as for tor boys w we could not nol censore the UM us of th these gaines even under the vicious Influence which we 18 found them unlearn we Provided the Saute sam gamen under Influence we baye so 80 far a our man said spec Wull fur an OpportunIty for young men and nd boys OOS to ploy play pool nd billiard It I uGh not claimed that lh the Supervision I ii perfect but tM the as now mad I is the best beat that our present knowledge and equipment What baseball I Is to too thu hoya boys of the town In summer and pool are to 10 them to In winter Th Those in III charge cIrKl ot of game rooms tell me that It Is very Idem eklem Indeed that thata II a boy la i found who will admit that ho d do not know how bow to ply play lh thee gaines 1 We e have not had a halt d dosen l for tor tIO so tar far I hope that the time will come when Omit ot of the city elty will provide where boya under may I play pool and amid billiards l hi an ot of honor and hH I 1 sni am convinced that In Ia deal I lug with th thee matters our should tue 1041 directed to the I de 4 Irea and aad activities of 01 boy JOa rather ther than to replies tm them re tn in this re regard gard hoodlum pop gangs river bank caves and broken window Proper Pp direction means mean much toward ron satie l character |
