Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-11-16

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 fence just a little bit, and shout len garde1 with a good French accent. Football is also claiming n large share of her attention, but thus far she has contented herself with simply attending the games, wearing her favorite college colors and lioniZing the long haired male kickers.
 There is n strong tendency in Massachu- setts to go even farther than this, for the girls at Wellesley college have begun kick ing with vengeance, and although it is quite impossible for any male expert to state precisely whether they kick we'll or not there are good grounds for haZarding the opinion that they kick fully as we'll as girls could reasonably be expected to.
 Pretty Miss Lucille Hill, instructor in physical culture at the college, is said to have turned the minds of the Wellesley maidens toward goals and punts and touchdowns and scrimmages, and it may be incidentally added that she is also en- couraging the young ladies to play base ball, basket ball, golf, hockey and other sports usually played by man alone. Foot ball Ia Wellesley, however, is not par ticularly fierce or exciting. It can hardly be called the Rugby game, and it does not closely resemble association or Gaelic foot ball. It is neither fish nor flesh nor good red herring ball, but simply Wellesley football
 In one respect, however, the girls resem- ble their male rivals for glory in the game they wear their hair long. When the fair players get mixed up in a desperate
 scrimmage over the ball, in which they happen to gently jostle one another wholly by accident, they pause and say, Really, how very rude of me, or "Oh! beg par don, dear!'' or Excuse mel But isn't this just too lovely for anything"
 It may be stated right here that slug ! Irr,V, s- .l.- .E any young lady should happen to so far forget herself as to pull sister players hair, sho would be ruled out of the game by the umpire at once. In short, the game is so very ladylike that few accidents occur. But if Mamie's bangs do get out of crimp, or Ma bells dress is torn, or even if Rosa's hair actually docs come down the game goes on just the same. Precipitation may put pow der to rout, hairpins may rain down upon
 the gridiron like the proverbial pitchforks, and golden, black, brown and blond locks may riot over the shoulders, but there is never pause in the play.
 The games arc usually between rival class elevens, and the girls seem as much | interested in the success of their respective
 classes as college boys do in the battles their Varsity eleven wages against the
 team of another alma mater. Some of the | girls are sprinters of no mean ability, and | others can send the round association bail | far down the field by a we'll directed kick.
 Now that the Wellesley girls have broken
 the football ice, other schools for the fair
 sex will probably take up the sport. | Golf has been quite the swell game at 1 Newport during the summer and fall. In
 England it is as popular among women as
 among men, and there is even Il ladies' golf
 championship decided every year. Ther>
 is nothing rough about the sport, and the 1 long tramp over the golf links and the
 mild excitement of driving the ball from i hole to hole around the three, four or five
 mile course have proved very beneficial
 and pleasing to the women of old Eng. | land. Their cousins on this side of the big
 pond are apparently as we'll pleased with
 the sport, for it has already secured firm | foothold in America.
 Golf may be made intelliSible to the un- informed American by stating that it is i practically 'shinny" three miles long, or
 five mile shiny if the links are that