The Coral Gables Times

Thursday, February 8, 1962, page 5 (of 46)

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6 CORAL GABLES TIMES Thursday, February 8, 1962

MUSCLES STRAIN

STURDY LEGS ROCKET RUNNERS IN 600 YARD RUN

'GOT TO MAKE IT'

Are We Fit?

Are our students at Ponce de Leon Junior High as fit physically as their counterparts across the United States? That's the question that's been asked since Wednesday of last week when students began calling on their bodies and muscles to perform seven different physical fitness tests. We'll know the answer tomorrow (Friday). This is when the eight-day trial at Ponce comes to close. The tests are: the 50-yard dash; pull-ups; sit-ups; shuttlerun; softball throw; 600-yard run and walk; and the standing broad jump. The tests at Ponce are part of a countywide, as well as nationwide, effort to determine the fitness of students. Staff Photos by Raymond Lang

WITH HER HAIR swirling around her pretty face, Dane Crawford, 315 Romano Ave., follows line of ball after she completed softball throw.

NOT EVEN THE CHARGE of the light brigade pounded its way as stubbornly to the end as these Ponce students are, as they approach the finish line of the 600-year run and walk.

A BUG BIT this little girl's finger while she was waiting her turn for the softball throw. Examining her finger where she was bitten is blonde Nancy Takee, 410 Alcazar Ave.

GRITTING HIS TEETH as he braces himself during standing broad jump is Dennis Rogers, 1301 Country Club Prado. Note the balled up fists.

BALLET in a physical fitness test? No, but Hildo Folgar, 2871 SW 34th Ave., did find time to fool around while waiting his turn in the standing broad jump.

THIS BOY COLLAPSED after finishing first ahead of some 50 of his classmates in the grueling 600-yard run and walk. Paul Winston, 3601 Toledo St., fell to the ground, lay there a moment, then got up. The hands are those of a comforting pal.