Sheridan High School - Bronc Yearbook (Sheridan, WY)

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14 THE OGKSHEPER1DA AThLETICS Bert White The High School A. A. has a very unique way of making money. It had several hundred watch fobs made, and these are being worn by nearly all the High school students. The fobs are made of oxidized metal, and are being sold at twenty-five cents apiece. Any of the towns-people wishing to help the association may get one of these fobs from the boys at the High school. Price, 25 cts. GYMNASIUM. An indoor gymnasium has been started in the large basement of the High school and is being carried on under the management of Messrs. Hawkes and Sherman. The equipment of this gymnasium consists of traveling rings, dumb bells, Indian clubs, pinching bags, boxing gloves and horizontal bars. The floor of the basement being made of cement, thin mattresses have been spread all over the floor. The exercises that are being used are to help get the boys ready for track, which will be started as soon as some more of the snow is off the ground. The High school has much good material from which to pick a track team. BASEBALL. The sun has cleared the snow off from a small place in the school yard, and this is lined every day with boys playing ball. The High school, having a large baseball field of its own and many baseball players, will make nearly as good a showing as they did in football. No games have been scheduled as yet but we will probably play all the towns around here which get up a baseball team. VVe might also take a trip around the world and play before Kings and Queens. BASKETBALL. The High school was unfortunate this year in not being able to have a basketball team, but the boys and girls are not taking it hard. The girls practice with the basketball while the boys play baseball. Several of the High school girls and boys play on church teams. The rest of the High school that is interested in basketball go and watch these play, and that is nearly as good as playing yourself. TRACK. The boys are beginning to collect their paraphernalia which they intend to use to good advantage during the coming season. A few of last year’s track men are with us this year, and, in addition, a few new ones which we expect to turn out well. Mr. Sherman, an expert trackman, imported direct from Dartmouth college, will take the track under his protecting wing, and when the track meet comes off the people will see some speedy fellows. Mr. Sherman was a speedy man in his day and we believe it will all come back to him when we get to practicing. The track for practice will be marked off on our baseball field, and the crosscountry running will be somewhere between here and Dayton. The hurd-

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13 THE OCKSHEPER1DA street hill has become the sport of the year. Seniors, Juniors, Sophomores, Freshmen, teachers, dignified, frivolous, sober, jolly, young and old have had the exhilarating pleasure of whizzing half a mile over the icy track. They have delightful, shivery “spills,” when a bunch of boys and gils roll and slide heads over heels and proudly display bumps and bruises next morning. A few more serious accidents have occurred among the ineexperienced “grownups” who have not yet learned to ride or keep out of the track, but these are few, considering the crowd and confusion on the hill. One mother was heard to remark: “Well, there’s my Johnny walking five or six miles up that hill every night, pulling a sled, and ii he had to go half that way on errands, he woud very likely think he was a badly treated boy.” Among the High school boys who enjoy coasting are: Carl Griffen, William Johnson, Lowell VVelton, Jack Moody and Lelin Zanders. For the first time in years, basketball has been eliminated from the High school athletic schedule. This was due partly to the indebtedness of the Athletic association, the long and expensive football season and lack of a suitable place for games and practice. The Sheridan public has always supported and been heartily interested in basketball, especially the girls’ teams, and will undoubtedly miss the lively conflicts between Sheridan and Buffalo. The girls particularly regret the decline of basketball, for while the boys have football and track for consolation, the young ladies are bereft of every- thing in which they have a part. Dr. Holmes has offered a cash prize to the High school pupil who will write the clearest explanation of why the creosoted paving blocks are bulging. ) his is a very opportune subject, and, as nearly everyone is interested in our lovely (?) pavement, there ought to be manj contestants. THAT HILL. From time immemorial, the Nielson Heights hill has been an abomination to “seekers of knowledge.” On summer days it is so hot that the extra effort put forth on that slope takes all the snap out of a person, while in winter the wind usually blows us back one step out of every two. In spite of this, very nearly every person who comes to speak to the school mentions that hill in a complimentary manner. May-lie you have never noticed it, but it is so. One gentleman back in 1909 said: “Boys and girls, you are fortunate to have that hill between you and your homes. Coming up that long sidewalk this morning, I never saw anything more magnificent than that snow capped Big Horn range, unfolding before my eyes as I ascended that hill.” Other remarks have been made concerning the “beneficial exercise gained from the climb,” “the plucky effort put forth by the pupils in walking so far for their education, and just lately. Dean Cross said: “You High school pupils ought to and probably do appreciate all the more what you receive here after climbing so hard for it.” So perhaps we ought not condemn that hill after all. The naked hills lie wanton to the Bare are the limbs of the shameless breeze, trees, The fields are nude, the groves un- No wonder, then, the corn is shocked, f rocked, —Exchange.

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15 THE OCKSHEPERIDA ling, vaulting and jumping will be done in the school yard. Some new shot will have to be made, as the one we had last year was borrowed and never returned. We don’t know who borrowed it, or maybe they would return it. But with all our trouble, we are prospering, and are going to clean up everything in the line of track this year. THE HIGH JUMP. Coach Omer of Northwestern University Describes Proper Form For the Event. The old-fashioned side jump, where the jumper runs from the side and “scissors” the legs over, is done away with and no really good jumper uses it nowadays, says Coach Omer, of Northwestern University. Jumping is one of the most artificial a.hletic events, as is proved by the fact that no untrained high jumper uses the correct form in jumping. The best jumper runs straight toward the bar and shoots over feet first, coming down facing the bar. The difficulty in the event for the beginner is the number of different movements which are invoiced in the correct form. The first thing to get is the take-off. The athlete should run about 50 feet to the bar, making the last three strides with speed, the first part of the run being slow and smooth. It is usual to mark the third stride from the take-off, and also the starting point as a double check. The take-off should be about the same distance from the foot of the standard as the height of the bar. Supposing that the jumper takes off from the right off, he runs as before described, swerving slightly to the right. This is done to aid in the half-twist of the body. At the instant of jump- ing the left leg is thrown above the bar and at right angles to it, the jumper at the same time allowing his body to be thrown backward into a horizontal position, the arms thrown upward and twisting to the right. This is to aid in giving the body the half turn. The right leg is brought up bent and to the right of the body and is snapped as quickly as possible downward and back. By the time this movement is completed the body is across the bar with the front turned toward it. The twist is the most important thing in the high jump, and different coaches use different methods of getting the same result. One prominent Conference coach uses the shoulder movement. It is said that Keene Fitzpatrick got the same result by a movement of the head, while others depend on the leg snap or the swerving movement at the bar. When you are learning to high jump you should perfect your movements with the bar at a low height, say, 3 feet 6 inches or 4 feet, raising it higher only when you can jump it easily and quickly. Do not jump for height oftener than once a week and not then until your form is established. Attempt to get the horizontal layout from the start and have the jumping pit well dug up so that you will not jar if you fall. Always keep your eye on the bar and not on the take-off. If you are jumping from the side convert yourself into a front jumper. It may take four months or a year, but in the end height will be added to your jump. Finally, it must be borne in mind that all of these movements must be gone through with force, and that the foot must be thrown higher than the other parts of the body.