Burbank Junior High School - Wizard Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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SPORTSMANSHIP Each thing we have heard, seen, or done, is somehow allied with something else. Probably the closest connection with sports and athlet- ics is sportsmanship, the state of mind in which a game is played. Everyone has his own opinion on what qualities make a sportsman. In each sport certain qualities make the champion. What is an all-round good sportsman? He may be a Jack-of-all-trades and master of none in respect to his athletic ventures, and yet have certain qualities which make him an ideal in the sports world. Kipling expresses the ideals of sportsmen in his poem If If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If j-ou can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two imposters ’just the same; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when th-c=re is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them ' Hold onJ ' Sports in themselves are really the best lesson. Participation in sports will convince you of this truth more readily than anything Rudyard Kipling or I could say. Sports are physical sermons in stones . Our lives are modelled by the character with which we build our cas- tles, or dr am our dreams. A person who has earned the reputation of a true sportsman has reached a higher peek than the others , who have stayed and lagged behind, will ever attai n. --May Nordquist, H9 A MOTTO FOR SPORT A good motto for sports is Play it fair and square . In order to play a game right you must have your whole mind on the game, that is, not have it wandering off to something else. You must be accurate and you will excel. — Angela Civello, -LS THE EFFECT OF GOOD HEALTHFUL SPORTS Your blood comes fastj You ' re hot. ' You ' re tirad. ' Yet you will not be put out of the game. Your team must win. Although you can scarcely stand, you are determined to play to the end. The game is over. ' You havo just had a cold shower and you foal as if you were sitting on top of the world. Your team has just won the vol- leyball game which was played with a very good opposing team. The score was 15-13; 9-15; 15-6. Now jour team is eligible to play in the inter- school championship meet. You learn to breathe correctly. Your body becomes healthy and strong. You become nimble and alert with the fun of it all. These c re only a few of the good affects of sports . --Eileen Froines, H9