JUNE, 1938

ticket plan is generally successful
and usually enough money is taken
in early in the year to make possible
a budgeting of funds.

The activity ticket plan is a more
extensive application of the season
ticket idea. At the beginning of the
school year, each student purchases
an activity card for $3.50, fifty cents
of which is a locker fee. Lockers can-
not be obtained unless the ticket is
bought. This amount furnishes the
funds which are budgeted to the
separate activities. A certain amount
is allotted to each activity for the
year, the amount determined on the
basis of what the activity cost in for-
mer years. In case a department de-
sires to have its budget increased, the
department must present its claims
to the student board of control.

If an activity makes money during
the season, and sports generally do,
the profits go back to the general
fund to be’ used for the support of
other sports. If sports show a loss, in
no way is the program of any non-
athletic activity curtailed or is any
money deducted from its allowance
to be used for the support of ath-
letics.

Many schools are successfully op-
erating under this plan. If the stu-
dent cannot pay the entire amount at
once, he may pay at the rate of ten
cents a week, the collection to be
made on a designated day each week.

Slap-Down Pass

There are swifter methods of transferring
the baton than this slap-down exchange, but
the slap-down is perhaps the safest way to
pass the baton to the relief man. And when
your quartet is as far out in front as the team
in the pictures, safety rather than speed should
be the keynote of the pass.

The receiver waits for the oncoming runner
with the right arm extended back and slightly
below the plane of the shoulder, both palm
and elbow up. He has his eyes focused on the
baton even while he is taking his preliminary
strides in the passing zone. In these early
strides, the relief man should attempt to gauge
the speed of his teammate so that the pass
will be completed with both men running as
close as possible at equal speed.

As the oncoming runner approaches the re-
lief man in the second picture, he has just
completed a stride with the right leg and the
left arm (holding the stick) is ready for the
slap down. In the following sequence of five
pictures, the passer synchronizes the stride of
his left leg with the transfer of the baton
from his left hand to the relief man's right.
Without breaking stride, the receiver quickly
switches the stick to his left hand. The baton
is grasped well up on the farthermost end so
that the relief man will have ample surface to
grip when he transfers the stick to the left
hand during the first stride.

In the common method of passing the baton,
the stick is usually transferred with a slight
upward thrust, both the passing hand of the
oncoming runner and the receiving arm of the
relief man being fully extended. (For this type
of pass see the progressive action pictures on
page 9 of the March Scholastic Coach.)