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8. Number of participants; Total partici-
pation in 12 college play days,1,562;
Average attendance per college, 1503;
Approximate nunber of participants repre»
senting single high school, 10,

941 Moetings for sponsors accompanying high
school groups; Six colleses reported such
geteto-gethers; Problems having to do with
girlst athletics were discussed. Such meet-
ings were considered very profitable and
worthwhile,

10, Activities and number of colleges
using them; Swimming, Volleyball, 9 cach;
Tenniquoits, 8; Basketball, Ping Pong, 7
each; Baseball, 63 Group Singing, 5; Darts,
Pesture Contest, Stunts, 4 cach: Basketball
Free Throw, Boan Bas, Jacks, Relays, Shuf-
fle Board, 5 cach,
ties were cach used by one or two schools,

ll. Comments;

The comments of those makinz reports
were without exception favorable,. There .~
is much general agreement as to the value
of play days, Many reported the return
of the same schools year after year and
the general approval of the sponsors of
these schools.

Mention was also made a number of —
times of the valuable training afforded
college girls, who for the most part
planned and carried out the prosram with
the advice of their respective women's
athletic association sponsors.

---Evelyn A. Hinton
State Basketball Chairman
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Officers of the K.H.&P.E.As for 1938-39;

President, Helen Gs Saum,K.S.C.,Manhattan,
President-Elect, Oran Shearer, Wichita.
Vice=President, Henry Shenk, Junction City,
Secretary~-Treasurer, Hazel Cave, K.S.7T,C.,
Pittsburg.
Bulletin Editor, Li Py Washburn, K.S,C.,
Manhattan,
District Council Members;
Helen Saum, Manhattan,
W. H. Mifflin, Coffeyville.
Arfis Hill, Kansas City.
National Council Members;
E. A. Thomas, Topeka.
Ruth Hoover, Lawrence,

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Twenty-one other activi-

WORTH READING

 

In view of the increasing emphasis
on mental hygiene and its inseparable
relation to physical well-being, Jchn

Eisele Davis! book, "Play and Mental

Health", should be on the reading list
of every physical education teacher,

In a very readable form it presents the
subjest of play as usable material for
the organization of effective mental
hygienic practices in school. Published
by A. S. Barnes.

For these wishing a comprehensive
view of tests and measurements in Phys-
ical Education the book, "Measuring
Achievement in Physical Education", by
Ruth B. Glassow and Marion R. Broer is
most helpful, It gives a detailed dis-
cussion of the methods of evaluation
and selection of physical cducation

tests. Published by W.B.Saunders Co,

The Science of Health and Disease, by
Hagearc (Harper & Bros. Publisher) is an
excellont book of general information in
regard to health and disease. It is
authoritative and readable for the aver-

age persone

Coaching Six-Man Football, by J. D.
Alexander in The Coach for October =
November, 1938, An excellent article
about coaching this new sport which has
beon adopted by quite a number of high
schools in Kansas this year. Mr. Alexan-
cer is the author of the book, Six-lMan
Football, published this fall,

The 1938 Basket Ball Rule Changes
are founc in the Kansas Hish School
Activitics Journal, November, and The
Coach, OctoberelNovember issue,

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The editors wish to thank those who
contributed to this number of the
Bulletin. The appreciation of the
K.H. and P.E.A.' is due to both the
contrioutors of now items and of longer
articles. Wen't you join the ranks of
contributors to the next issue?

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Editorial Board:= L, P. Washburn, lianhattan, Editor-in-chief;
Ardis Hill, Kansas City; Oran Shearer, Wichita