1915 Cedrus Yearbook

Girls' Basket Ball NE morning last fall, after chapel services, Prof. McChesney read the follow- ing announcement: "All girls wishing to play basket ball, come to the gym- nasium at two-thirty this afternoon." Long before two-thirty that afternoon you could see girls hustling up street and entering the door of the gymnasium. The last one to come was a shy little personage wearing a big happy smile. As she entered all the girls greeted her with this welcome: "Hurrah! a new girl for the basket ball team." Immediately you could see her smile vanish, and after a few sobs and stammers she said, "I'm the coach." After this blunder, the girls kept quiet and the coach began to arrange the team. First she selected two small,(?) delicate(?) girls for centers, namely, Miss Somers and Miss Little, and the fleet-running Miss Baum- gardner was chosen as a second center. Next, guards were chosen who upon first appearance brought to our minds the familiar forms of "Oscar and Adolph." These were our worthy friends, Miss Wright and MissCollins. Last, but not without due consideration, forwards were chosen. Miss Burns and Miss Gardiner, two stalwart, rosy-cheeked farmer girls were selected for this position. The team having been arranged, the first practise began. It resembled a football skirmish more than a girls' basket ball practise. At four o'clock the girls started for home adorned with black eyes, bruised knees, and strained wrists. From this time on there was great improvement in appearance as well as in practise; and although we have unpleasant memories of the slick ball-room floor and dreadful "hootenannie" of Greenville, our attempts have not all been failures, and who knows that there is not greater success in store for us. EEEE I 1 s-P4 GIRLS' BASKET BALL TEAM-CUBS '15 77