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Z! May 3, 1929 1 SPorts and Other Wilmette Recreation:.Board News · The Roughnecks maintained the lead in the women's volley ball league by defeating the O'Kay team :Mof!day evening at the Howard ' gymnasiUm. The O'Kay team had previously . defeated the Horsefeathers, champions of last year and strong conteqd~rs f?r the title this year~ The c.h~mi'Rn~hip will be decided Monday evening. at the weekly meeting of the league when the ·Horse feathers and Roughnecks will play the decisive game of the Fourteen sophomore athletes at league. Northwestern university played a Results of last Monday's . ·games prominent ·part on the athletic teams were: at the university during the year now Roughnecks (15; 15) O'Kays (11, 4) Jane Krier drawing, to a close. MarceJla Kummer Lois Miller Mary Hoffman Foremost among the sophomore. talVera Johnson ent on the football squad last fall was Margaret De Marco Lorraine J annes Clementine Antonio Henrv Bruder, half back of Pekin, Emma Hicks Ill. ; i.arrv Oliphant of Evanston and Dorothy Smith Betty Barry Frank Baker of Milwaukee, ends and Gertrude Koerper, refe ree Bill Griffin of Chic;ago, half back. XYZ (6, 8) Bruder won a regular job on the team Wildcats (15, 15) Frances Kelley from the start and proved to be one Marjorie Miller · Marion Russel of the outstanding backs of the conLeona Hoffman Dorothy Kummer Catherine Pearson Vivian Quigley ference before the season was over. Isabel Reimer Elizabetlr:Hof'fman Lucille May . Bert Riel of Watseka, Ill., proved to Betty 1 Ryerson be one of the foremost conference forMarlon Pearsa'n Eleanor Phillips wards during the basketball season. Elizabeth Nelson, referee He jumped into a regular position at Gym. Class the beginning of the season and was Horsefea thers (11, 11) (15, 15) Gertrude Koerper Mrs. M. J. Keil mentioned prominently as one of the Glad ys Fehlen Mrs. Jennie W:tde best forwards in the Big Ten last seaMrs. Helen Schleter son. He was also number player on Alma Jones Peggy Betts Mrs. Clara Kroschel the tennis team. Betty Nelson Mrs. Agnes Puetz Betty ftyerson Lorraine Jannes Three sophomore track men bid Jane Krier fair to stand out among the athletes Roberta Muther in their specialty during the season Team standings in the volley ball now in progress. They are Tom league are: Warne of Kokomo, Ind., pole vault; Per ' 'Von Lost . Cent Bill Portmess of Chicago, broad jump Roughnecks 4 1000 and MacLean Brown of Spring Val0 Horsefeathers 3 1 750 ley, Ill., javelin. · The first two won Wildcats 2 2 500 their events in most of the relay meets O'Kays 1 3 250 Gym Class 1 250 this spring while Brown placed high ·3 XYZ 0 4 000 up among the contenders in the javelin throw. ' Don Petersen of Chicago and Bill Covode of Cherokee, Fla., stood out prominently among the newcomers in Big Ten swimming circles. The former set a new record in the breast Young athletes of the Joseph: Sears stroke and swam on Northwestern's school in Kenilworth are pdinting world championship medley relay and their efforts towards the fourth annual straight relay teams. Covode swam on North Shore Grammar School Track the latter team also. George LaFavour of Cushing, Okla., and Field meet, which will be held at Dyche stadium Saturday, May 18. lightweight wrestler, placed second in The boys are practicing running,. the Western Conference championjumping, pole vaulting, and other regu- ships and shows promise of winning considerable prestige in the grappling lation track and field events. The North Shore Grammar School sport next season. Several sophomores have won reguTrack and Field meet is the outstanding athletic event of the year for lar jobs on the baseball nine this elementary schools of this district, spring. They include Larry Oliphant, Mr. Townley states. Those who com- first base; ] oe Schwartz of Chicago, pete in the meet will be qivid~d into second base and Francis Waniata, also three classes-boys under· 85 pounds, of Chicago, outfield. boys under 100 pounds, and boys over Women'· Group Plans .to 100 pounds. Plans are under way ·also for the Take.Up Playground Ball annual Joseph Sears Track and Field Final games in the Women's Volley meet, in which boys and girls from all Ball league will be played next Mongrades take part. This meet will be held , Friday, May 24. Cups, medals, day evening at the Howard school and ribbons will be awarded to the gymnasium and, on the following Monday evening, a women's playground winners. ball league will be organized at the Village Green. Practice games will be N. U. Sports Squads Will played at the organization meeting the regular league will begin TuesExperience Busy Week-end and day, May 21. Northwestern's four spring sport The schedule of games to be played teams face a busy week-end of com- at the final volley ball meeting will be: petition with meets scheduled with Gym class vs. Wildcats; O'Kays vs. conference teams, all of them being XYZ ; Horsefeathers ~s. Roughnecks. away from home. The tennis team faces the longest BOARD MEETS MAY 9 trip, being scheduled to meet MinneThe May meeting of the Wilmette sota at Minneapolis this Saturday. Playground and Recreation board will The track and golf teams go to Colum- be held Thursday, May 9, at 8 o'clock, bus where the former competes Sat- at the Village hall. urday in the Ohio relays and the golf team opposes Ohio State on the same day. The match will be the first of the season for the Purple golfers. Coach Paul Stewart's baseball team will journey to · Iowa City. where they take on the Hawkeyes m a return game. The Io":a ~ine w~n !he first game of the senes m ten mnmgs last Saturday at Evanston. Leagues in horseshoes, playground ball, and women's playground ball, will be conducted by the Wilmette ·Playground and Recreation bo~rd during the summer months; beginninr May 20, aqd continuing through August. Athletic programs issued by the Recreation staff announce that playground ball games for men ·will be played on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evenings at the Village Green ; the horseshoe games on Tuesday and Thursday evenings and the women's playground ball JZ"ames on Tuesday evenings at the Village Green. Ttfams entering either of these leagues must have made registration by Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock or forfeit their place on the schedules as printed schedules for the various sports will be ready for distribution Tuesday, Daniel M. Davis, director of recreation, announces. Captains and managers of teams taking part in former leagues· conducted by the board are requested by Mr. Davis to have their entry lists, comprising all the members of the team represented in each league, iu before Monday. To participate in an adult league conducted by the Wilmette Playground and Recreation board, a contestant must be over 15 years of age and be a member of the organization or church group he represents, or be a resident of Wilmette. · Entries already received include: Playground ball-English Lutheran, Men's Gym class, Ridge Electric, St. Joseph's, Printing Studio, Wilmette Ice, Knights of Columbus, and Baptist. Horseshoes Methodist, Presbyterian, St. John, I, and St. John, II, and St. Joseph's. Women's Playground ball- Horsefeathers, Roughnecks, O'Kays, Wildcats, Ponies, Women's gymnasium class, and XYZ's. Other entries are exp.ected for each · league. Jleceive Entries ·, ·: Women's Volleyball , for Adult Outdoor Play Competition L---------- Near East Workers Teaching Children Art of Playing No paragraph in the sto.r y of the Armenian orphans rescued and cared for by the Near East Relief is so touching as that ~hich tell~ of the necessity for teachmg the children to play. To us Americans ~ho. believe that babies are born playmg It seems pitiful beyond words that the natural impulse to run, to laugh, to contend generously in spor~s sho~ld have ~ee,n killed by the ctuelties of hfe when hfe s span had only just begun. Yet one orphanage director says that he had hundreds of children under his care for a whole year before he ever saw a glimmer of a smile break the brooding thoughtfulness of these boys and girls whose memories of violence and pain have stilled all youthful desires. Another director found an occasional girl child clasping a doll made of a twig wound about with a rag, or a boy who had whittled a rude horse from a bit of wood but balanced against these two or three were hundreds who felt no urge to make or use playthings even when they could. The Armenian is naturally serious. his folk songs are serious, his national anthem is a dirge. He can watch a thrilling event and make no sound of excitement. When to their nati,-e suppressions are added the depres sions following upon disaster it re quires a real making-over to permit · expression. Near Ea" s t Relief tried to bring about that making-over. One of its methods was by introducing both organized and free play, games and sports. The in dividualistic child who had been fend ing for himself for months, sometime s for a year or two, needed to have his heart opened to others, to learn team work. Trained recreation teachers set themselves to the task and taught the native teachers who passed on the lore. In the Caucasus, where Near East Relief maintains the largest orphanage in the world in former cavalry barracks at Leninakan, the thousands of children were organized with play captains and assistant captains, group leaders and assistant leaders for every twenty children. With the huge parade ground to perform upon the 68 games which they learned might all be going at once if it was desired. There are still 34,000 children aided in one way or another by Near East Relief, being brought up to normal living again and held there till the submerged impulses rise to their natural place. Play is one of the best remedies, psychological and physical. Sophomores Loom Prominently on N. ·U. Sports List ..... , Joseph Sears Boys Train for Annual Track, Field Meet Gym Class WiD Enter Teams for League Play The Men's Gymnasium class at its last meeting, Tuesday, April 23, at the Stolp school, voted to organize as athletic teams and compete in the leagues sponsored by the Wilmette Playground and Recreation board. Walter M. Doose of 139 Prairie avenue, was elected to the post of athletic chairman of the class and he is responsible for entering teams in the various leagues and supervising their playing. In charge of Playground ball, Mr. Doose has placed William E. Haigh, 1148 Isabella street, and Richard M. Burns, 1140 Isabella street, in charge of the Horseshoe team. The gymnasium class was organized last fall by .t he Recreation board primarily for men who did not care to compete in the leagues already exist·ing. Various sports were taken up at the class meetings and through the :'ractice given in the class, the men are now ready to compete in organized -D. C. S. leagues. Announce Final Standings of Sears Baseball League Final standings in the three boys' baseball leagues at the Joseph Sears school, Kenilworth, at the close of the season were : Junior Lt'lt.gue (Boys 7, 8, and 9 Years Old) Won Lost Detroit .................... 4 1 Chicago ......... . ......... 3 2 Milwaukee . . . . . . . . . .3 2 St. Louis ........... . ...... 0 5 :!\IItldl.-r I~eague (Boys 10 and 11 Years Old) Won Lost Giants .................... 5 2 Cardinals .... . ........ . . . . 4 3 Cubs ........... .. . . ....... 4 3 Yankees . . . . . . . . .1 6 Senior League (Boys 12, 13, and 14 Years Old) Won Lost Whales . .. . .. ... .. .. . .. . .. . 5 2 Ba~s ....... .. . . . .. .... .. .. 4 3 Sardines . ... . ... . . . . . . .. ... 4 3 Sharks ........... . ........ 2 5 Girls' Athletic Club in Final Meeting of Season The first class meeting of the Girls' ' Athletic club and gymnasium class ,... as held at Howard school Tuesday evening, April JO. The club will be disbanded for the summer months arvl will resume weekly meetings in September. Second and third place winners in each of the leagues were to be decided in playoff games this week.