Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1911 — Girls Make Good in Managing Sports [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Girls Make Good in Managing Sports

COLUMBIA, MO.—The girls of the Columbia high school have taken Charge of the school’s athletics and will run them for the remainder of the school year. They took the reins into their own hands only after the boys ■had made a failure, and have achieved a marked success to date. . , At the beginning of the school year the boys assumed the management v»4i the athletics, Inasmuch as they did the playing on the football team. They were very unbusinesslike, however, and, although a number of football games were played and In spite of the fact that the football season Is usually a financial success, there was a deficit of $35 at the close of the season. \

J. L. ColonlUß, instructor in physical culture, was disappointed with the management of the boys. "They think too much of taking a few trips away from home In order to have a good time, and too little of where the expense money is to come from,” he said. At the beginning of the basket ball season Colon ius initiated the plan which put the girls In control, and now the treasury has enough money in it to wipe up the football deficit and leave $75 on deposit. At tfig suggestion. a new athletic association was formed, to which girls were admitted upon payment of the “two-bits” ihitia Akm fee. Neat badges were given to the members and the girls of the basket bail squad conducted an enthusiastic canvass with the result that there are as many girls in the association as there are boys. The girls are now managing botlf the boys' and girls’ basket ball teams and will arrange the schedule for the boys’ track and baseball tom.