Show 0 0 ATHLETICS AND COUNTRY SCHOOL 0 athletics is the art of training by athletic exercises an athlete Is one who has had this training and is ready to contend in exercises requiring great physical agility and strength there is a question of whether or not a country boy is benefited by athletic lct fe training many fany people say there is no need of training in school for any anything Ehing you aro are not going to make a practice of after you leave school they say a boy on oil the farm can get physical exercise enough outside of school they say that the athletic training oil one gets in school is of 0 no value to him and therefore lie he had better take up another subject that would be of some value to him in afterlife er life they claim that it does not develop tile tho mind and that one might as well be out in tile the held field working or working in the school black work shop some of these sayings may be true to a certain extent of course many students could not follow athletics up as a profession unless they were ex such as dempsey and other athletes of renown but this exercise is of value in after life as it helps to develop the physical body especially the lungs and muscles it develops parts of tila body that work on the f farm rm cannot ono is trained to act quickly but the clod hop per can move along slow just so lie he keeps moving all work and no play makes jack a 1 lull dull boy therefore it is necessary to have some time tor for recreation while in school while tile the student is taking athletic training tho the mind is lesting besting and he will be brighter when ho goes to his next class than he should have been without the athletic training whon when one is participating in a gamo game of basketball or any other athletic game for that matter lie he has got to learn to think and act quickly think nott noo then go to a basketball game anil and observe closely how a placer has to use ills his judgment in ill throwing the ball see how quickly ho he has bar to form this judgment and throw the ball note how a misjudgment may lose the day by participating jn in an all athletic game one will learn to lo be a real sportsman A real sportsman is one that can call win without boasting and boose loose without squealing LA LAVON VON 21 |