Central Middle School - Ceejay Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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? Z . te 3 - mw w wmfi mim Qirls Qymnasium LUCILLE MERRICK Gymnasium work is recreation. It involves a change from the regular school-book routine, is wholesome, and provides pleasure. Gym work consists mainly of swim- ming, dancing, outdoor and indoor games and exercises. Knowing how to swim is a fine thing, and there is no better place to learn than the swimming pool in the gym. Here the pupil receives proper instruction from the teacher, has clean water of the proper temperature, and is well guarded by the teacher. Dancing is enjoyable and makes the body more graceful. Dancing increases the strength without increasing muscle. Outdoor exercises are healthful. The playground affords the fresh air which develops the lungs. A person who spends some time out doors each day usually does not have colds and lung trouble. Good outdoor games are hockey, girls ' baseball, outdoor basketball, tennis, and many others. Most of these games are played by the gym classes. In the winter most of the gym classes are held indoors. Sometimes two days a week are spent in swimming, one day a week is given to folk-dancing and the remain- ing days to various other activities. Various games are played, including basketball, newcomb, volleyball, endball, and dodgeball. They are certain exercises for correcting bodily defects such as wing shoulder blades, and stooped or rounded shoulders. Central ' s gyms are well equipped with apparatus necessary to progressive gym classes. The Missouri State Badge Test takes up four or five weeks of the gymnasium class work. The test sets standards which every normal girl ought to be able to attain. The main thought embodied in the badge test is that every girl should have poise and control over her body. Running, ball throwing, and balance beam-walking make up the major part of the test. ;ra;rc;-s:s:i s Page One Hundred Fifty-seven

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lei KJfmOOO EIIOt ' Boys ' Qymnasium It is the aim of the boys ' gymnasium department to have every boy on a team and every boy an athlete to the best of his ability. Each gym class is divided into a heavy weight group and a light weight group. Each group has four teams, which are permanent and each team has its leader or captain. This gives each class eight leaders and eight teams, four heavy and four light. Since there are eleven gym classes, there are eighty-eight captains and the same number of teams. These teams compete against each other in various gymnastic stunts, also in basketball, soccer, water polo, swimming, races, volleyball, baseball, and track. The champion of each group meets the other champions in tournaments for the inter- class championship of the school. All tournaments are yet to be played off, basketball being the only one finished. Out of eighty-eight teams, sixteen class champions were left, eight big and eight small. The captains of Mr. Parker ' s teams were: Large: Griesel, Vasholz, and, Luck; Small: Brown, Payne, and Kiel. Mr. Craig ' s captains were; Large: Sams, Phipps, Highley, and Leach; Small: Gassman, Rogers, Rufi, Goss, and Hey. The champion- ship of the large group was won by Park Luck ' s team of Mr. Parker ' s sixth hour. The championship of the small group was won by Charles Brown ' s team of Mr. Park- er ' s seventh hour. The gym schedule for one week runs as follows: Monday and Tuesday, swimming and gymnasium work; Wednesday, calisthenics, both classes together; Thursday, ap- paratus work on the bucks, horses, parallel bars, mats, spring boards, ropes and rings, or play ground; Friday, inter-class athletics, mass and individual. One Friday of each month, instruction is given to non-swimmers. On one Friday of each month, there are water sports for all swimmers. !:ii?::i:«;£j: :L !H;i?aKMft Page One Hundred Fifty-fix

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I ' i ' i lSllfe.i ll liSS il ll il , Sl lii:i! !STnl ! i EI!:H§iiS!! BOYS ' SWIMMING Top Row : Reece, Riggs, Vasholz, Erickson, Tevis, Luck. Bottom Row: Shiftman, Wilhite, Cole, Bland, Osborn. Swimming One of the healthiest and most enjoyable sports in which Central Junior young people engage in their gymnasium work is swimming. The fine swimming pool with its clear, pure water of the proper temperature is located conveniently to both the gymnasiums, and the boys ' and girls ' classes have use of the pool during alternate days of the week. Instructors are always present and the pupils are given lessons in the more familiar and necessary strokes. They are taught the various diving forms; also some very practical methods of life saving. Among the girls, tests called the Beginners ' and the Swimmers ' Tests are given which are really preliminary to the Senior High Red Cross Life Saving Tests. Buttons are awarded those who pass. The ability to swim and to care for another person in distress in the water may be the means some day of enabling a boy or girl to perform that greatest of all deeds, the saving of a human life. For their own safety, and for the giving of aid to others when needed, every boy and girl should learn how to swim well. Swimming contests among the boys of the Junior High Schools of Kansas City are an innovation in athletic sports this year and should develop some good competition and wholesome rivalry. Central Junior ' s team as selected by Coach Craig is shown above and although none of the meets have yet taken place the school is confident its boys will do their part well. Contests are also to be held among the girls of Miss Root ' s and Miss Duncan ' s gym classes. The girls making the final team will be awarded letters. osraasjE Page One Hundred Fifty-eight