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Identifier: newrationalathle00reil (find matches)
Title: New rational athletics for boys and girls
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Reilly, Frederick Joseph, 1872-
Subjects: Athletics
Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) D. C. Heath & Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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esecome in several degrees of strength and canbe bought for 25 cents the pair, — two sets,one for each hand, being a pair. We havethree or four of these hanging on the wallsof every classroom and several more amongthe apparatus in charge of the teachers ofphysical training. Boys and girls are e^-couraged to take every opportunity to prac-tice with these spring grips, so that whenthey are tested on the official recording in-strument, they may show an improvementover their previous record and so gain a fewmore points. (See Plates No. 13 and 14^.) That is the secret of the success of thissystem both with boys and with girls. Theyare working always for something definite.They are trying to beat the other fellow andthey are trying to beat their own past per-formance. And there is no guessing aboutit. Everything is exact, definite, and abso-lutely fair. Children do not work for some FOR BOYS AND GIRLS 45 indefinite, far-off good. They work for tan-gible results here and now, and this sys-
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Plate 13. — Grip Exerciser Plate 14. — Grip Testing tern gives them this definite something towork for. As stated in a previous chapter, boys andgirls also practice with the grip exerciserswhen they have done their turn at thePotato Race and are waiting for their nextevent. 46 NEW RATIONAL ATHLETICS Shot Put This is one of the finest and most interest-ing exercises we have for boys. We wish itwere possible to give them a real shot toput, as there are points about the form thatcan be taught only with the shot. But withlarge numbers it is impossible to use eventhe so-called in-door shot. We have sub-stituted a 6-pound medicine ball, on the sideof which the makers have sewed a leatherpocket into which the boy slips his fingers.This prevents the ball bouncing out of hishand when he takes the preparatory skip.Two or, better, three medicine balls shouldbe provided. Two lines painted on the floor,seven feet apart, indicate the circle. Be-ginning at 16 feet from the start, lines arepainte

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