1916 Cedrus Yearbook

19 16 The Girls' Basket Ball Team y OU may read in some of the old records that C.C. at one time had a girls' basket ball team which won a state championship and that she has had other teams which have had many hard battles with some opposing forces. At once you will wonder,"was the team for 1915-16 such a one?" No,speaking frankly, it was not. Somehow the centers never jumped quite high enough nor were they quite swift enough,the guards were not quite speedy enough, and theforwards never aimed just right. Butthey always did their best,took their defeats with a smile, and kept right on playing. For,'Tis better to have played and lost than never to have played at all. And when it was all over they were glad that they hadhad the courage to stick to it,for they had thereby earned enough to enable them to give a leap year party for the boys,and did not have to avoid all the grocers in town until a sufficient length of time had passed for them to save enough pennies from their postage stamp allowance to pay the bills. But down deep in their hearts they were hurt because they could not be state champions. So even though they could not guard or throw goals well enough to win a championship in Basket Ball, they leave it to you whether they did not win one along some other line. Consider them carefully,and although some may be too stout and some too slender; some too light some too dark to suit your fancy, yet do you not think they could easily win a championshiip in a beauty contest? Yes? Then thank you one and all,and their heartaches are all healed,for what daughter of Eve would not prefer winning a beauty prize to a few basket ball games? 75