KANSAS CITY ADDS SPORTS

According to H. G. Danford, the inter-
scholastic league program in Kansas City
has recently been broadened to include
swimming, volleyball, and softball. In
addition to these three sports the high
schools compete in football, basketball,
track, golf and tennis.

The extension of the program to include
swimming, volleyball, and softball was the
result of the following philosophy of phy-
sical education:

A.—That there are definite educational
values inherent in properly conducted in-
terscholastic athletics.

B.—If the above is true of a few sports
it is doubly true of a number of sports.

C.—That there is need for more emphasis
upon those sports that possess leisure time
values for adults.

D.— That the boy who possesses great
ability in a game such as volleyball, has an
equal right to achieve recognition with the
football and basketball star.

E.—That human nature being what it is,
the best way to dignify a sport in the mind
of the boy and the mind of the teacher and
secure the highest type of instruction is to
een that sport on the interscholastic cal-
endar.