--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 13 number: 8 published: 1910-06 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Mutual Work," *Improvement Era* 13, no. 8 (June 1910): 761–763.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1308unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera1308unse start_page: 761 end_page: 763 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1910-06) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1308unse publication_year: 1910 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1910, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Mutual Work Mutual Work. Secretary and Instructor Deseret Gymnasium. Professor B. S. Hinckley, of the Business College of the Latter-day Saints' University, was appointed secretary of the Deseret Gymnasium by the Board of Control, on April 21. Professor Hinckley not only entertains deep sympathy for the boys, but is greatly interested in athletics, and no better selection could have been made for this important office. He has been connected with the Latterday Saints' University for a number of years. He was born at Coalville, Summit county, Utah, July 9, 1867, and later moved south to Millard county, where the family resided for thirteen years. He entered the Brigham Young Academy, Provo, in 1884, graduating in 1889. In 1892 he graduated at the Eastman National College of Poughkeepsie, New York. Leaving the Brigham Young Academy, which he entered as teacher in 1893, he accepted BRIANT S. HINCKLEY, the P™cipal8hip of the Salt Lake Business College on the Secretary Deseret Gymnasium. 5th of March> 1900> He hag been a member of the General Board Y. M. M. I. A. for a number of years, and taken an active part in the educational development of the young people. Some years ago he was made counselor to President Hugh J. Cannon, of the Liberty stake, and is an indefatigable Church worker. 762 IMPROVEMENT ERA. As Professor Hinckley's assistant instructor in the Deseret Gymnasium, R. W. Richardson, late assistant physical director at the University of Utah, has been engaged. He will have charge of the classes on the floor of the big gymnasium. For the past three years he has been engaged in the work of physical education, having served at the Y. M. C. A., and the University of Utah. He also had charge of the gymnasium work in the Rexburg Academy, Idaho, a year ago, and has served in athletic work at the Blackfoot high school. It is announced that the gymnasium will be opened July 21, but the date may be postponed till fall. Juarez M. I. A. in Championship Contest. On the 18th and 19th of March the basket ball teams of the Southwest met in El Paso, Texas, at the Y. M. C. A. building, to contest for the championship of the southwest. Among the players was the M. I. A. team from Colonia Juarez. On the 18th, the Y. M. C. A. won from the high school by a score of 17 to 16; Colonia Juarez won from the El Paso Military Institute 65 to 8; the high school won from the Military Institute by a score of 32 to 25; and the Bisbee high school won from the New Mexico College, 25 to 15. Large crowds attended and El Paso was in the throes of a basket ball fever. On the 19th the Bisbee high school defeated the M. I. A. of Colonia Juarez by a score of 19 to 15, and by this won the championship of the southwest and the basket ball trophy. The M. I. A. of Colonia Juarez had already defeated the Y. M. C. A. by a score of 28 to 26, and thereby took second place, and undoubtedly would have taken first place if they had not had to contest with the ethers immediately after their contest with the Y. M. C. A. The Y. M. C. A. defeated the El Paso high school by a score of 27 to 24, for third place. The final contest between the Bisbee high school and the M. I. A. of Colonia Juarez, was the fastest and most sensational game ever seen in the city. Great enthusiasm marked the play of the three games which made up the evening's program. The contest between the Bisbee and M. I. A. of Colonia Juarez created such enthusiasm as is seldom seen in this game. The M. I. A. had only six men, and one of these was put out of commission, so that they were compelled to play with five men, whereas the other teams had several more to choose from, in making up their players. The grit of the M. LA. boys was the general topic of conversation, and it was said, by an observer, that he had never seen such endurance in young men. Their friends attributed it to the exercise which they obtained on the farms, but their parents believe that it is due to their clean lives MUTUAL WORK. 763 and the observanca of the Word of Wisdom. On their return to Colonii Juarez they received an enthusiastic reception from their friends, who tendered them a banquet and sang songs in their honor. In El Paso they were well treated. Ernest Hatch was the coach of the team, and these were in the line up: Skou3en, L. Taylor, Richardson, Canover, and H. Taylor. Outline of Program for Meetings of Annual Conference. The first Y. M. M. I. A. meeting will be held at 10 a. m. June 4, and the following are the main points in the program: 1. Efficient stake supervision, officers' meetings, teachers, spirit and work — Douglas M. Todd. 2. Music in the Associations — Oscar A. Kirkham. 3. A Debate by two young men, conducted as a sample of Debates in the associations — Dr. John A. Widtsoe. 4. Athletics, including co-operation, campus, equipment, rules, and qualifications of contestants — Lyman R. Martineau. 2 p. M. — 1. Manuals and Getting Manual Lessons — Prof. John H. Evans. 2. Story-telling Contests, Orations and Lectures —Joseph F. Smith, Jr. 3. Reading Course — Dr. George H. Brimhall. 4. Statistical Reports, Accounts, Era, Fund, Secretaries — Secretary Moroni Snow. Music will be interspersed, and there will be time for pertinent questions and discussion. Come prepared. Saturday evening a special and important meeting of stake superintendents and presidents of stakes with the General Board will be held. On Sunday morning there will be a conjoint officers' meeting to consider conjoint work; Debates will be considered by Dr. John A. Widtsoe; Music by Oscar A. Kirkham; Drama by Alice Tuddenham; Reading and Story-Telling, Emma Goddard. Speeches, limited to from five to ten minutes, with discussions and questions after each subject. Miscellaneous. At 2 and 7 p. m. general conjoint meetings will be held in the Tabernacle. President Joseph F. Smith and President Martha H. Tingey will speak at the afternoon meeting. At the evening meeting Dr. George H. Brimhall will speak on "Be ye Clean.'' There will be good music and singing at all the meetings. On Friday evening a reception to officers, holding tickets, with social entertainment and light refreshments, will be given in the Bishop's Building.