Hobart Senior High School - Memories Yearbook (Hobart, IN)

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HIGH SCHOOL. 27 ATHLETICS WILLIAM MARQUARDT. ITHIN the last few years there has been a marked change in the field of athletics. This change, however, has not been so much in the amount of exercise taken by those pursuing athletic sports as in the growing tendency toward the organization of athletic clubs, and athletic associations and college and high school games. During the season of athletic sports the subject of conversation is the chances of the home High School team in the next basket ball or athletic meet, the characteristics of some hammer thrower or right guard, and other things connected with the sports. The schools of to-day are in every respect far in advance of the schools thirty or thirty-five years ago, and the present condition can, in no greater degree, be ascribed to any other source than to athletic sports. To be sure the desire to defeat a rival in a contest is not the highest motive of the human mind; the honor of winning a medal in a race is not the greatest honor which earth can afford, the glory of being champion in any branch of athletics seems childish to serious minded people. Competitions, prizes, medals, honors, appeal to students and hold them to efforts which higher and worthier objects fail to call forth. By these they are educated to habits which fit them to receive higher motives. Recognizing these facts the faculty of Hobart High School have done everything in their power to encourage the students toward athletics. We first began winning recognition in the field meets five years ago. Since then we have been steadily advancing. Many of the boys in our school hold medals fo r the broad jump, pole vault, hammer throw, discus, shot put and the races. Many, since leaving the high school, have entered college and won recognition there. Charles Jahnke, attending college at Purdue, still holds his own in the shot put, and Oliver Bullock ought also to be mentioned in the half mile. Earle Kholer, ’09, is considered our best in the mile run and Ralph Wood and Wallace Watson in the shorter distances. Ray llalsted won honors in the broad jump and Eric Carlson made several records in the hammer throw. Our girls can hold their own in basket ball and really excel the boys along , that line.

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26 HOBART TOWNSHIP Father of American Letters”; Nathaniel Hawthorne; George Washington; Abraham Lincoln, “The Great Emancipator,” and Theodore Roosevelt, the master mind of the present age. All these spent most of their youth amid rural scenes enjoying Nature. Then, as we survey the past, observe the present and look into the future we see the city alleys are the criminal breeders and the sterling men in the city must be continually supplied from the country, and thus the country is the up-lifter and supporter of the nation. This was true in the past, is true in modern days and will be true in days to come.

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28 HOBART TOWNSHIP Special mention ought to be made of the Iroquois Athletic Club, which was organized this year for the purpose of pushing athletics. We can not say, however, that this proved a success, for it was broken up in a short time. A foot-ball eleven was organized in September and Edward Paine was elected captain. The boys purchased their suits and began in earnest to practice. But when they attempted to get a game scheduled with them, fate seemed to be against them and something intervened each time. It is thought by some that the students of other schools were scared out by the thoughts of attempting to be victorious when playing against Hobart. Each person mentioned above is an example of good health, developed and sustained by athletic sports. Then let us not harbor the idea that any form of athletic sports interferes in any way with the development of the young man; but rather let us encourage athletic sports in the direction t.hey are now taking, that may in a still greater degree intensify the present effect by bringing greater good to the pursuers of these sports, as well as to those who are not so directly interested.