The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-10-12
HOCKEY FOR WOMEN.
AN ENGLISH LXPEET is TEACH-
ING
Boston GfrIa the Game as II is
Played on the Other Side.

Hockey for the ladies, long in vogue
in England, Is now about to be intro
duced in this country by an energetic
young Englishwoman who has come to
America and to Boston for the exs
press purpose of inspiring in our girls
an interest in this sport. Miss Con-
stance Applebee, the sister of the Rev.
j. H. Applebee, the minister of Theo-
dore Parker's church, West Roxbury,
thinks that there is no game to com
pare with this one for which she is to
be sponsor hereabouts.
1T is most extraordinary" she says,
'that the game has not already been
introduced to the American schools and
colleges In England Girton College
at Cambridge, and Summerville College
at Oxford have splendidly coached
teams. The two great girls schools,
Wykeham Abbey and the Roedean
school, also have well known teams,
and indeed, it would be difficult to find
in England a high school of standing
or preparatory for women that does
not boast of it's hockey eleven.
THE All-England Women's Hockey
Association was founded in 1885, and
ever since then there have been match
es played throughout the kingdom.
The ALL England team is composed of
the best players in England, picked
from the winners at the county match
es. 1t has played matches with the
teams from Ireland and from Wales
and it still remains invincible.
During my study at the HemenWay
Gymnasium this summer, | had ample
opport unity to observe the temper and
characteristics of Americas athletic
young women, and I am certain that
they could do excellent work in hockey
We're they properly coached up to It,
Regarding from the point of healthy
muscular exercise, there is no sport
and | know them all, basketball, fenc-
ing, swimming, walking, bicycling and
golf-that compares with hockey. 1t
exercises every muscle in the body and
1T is something that can be played all
through the year, except in the very
hottest and coolest days. Our English
girls play from about the end of Sep
TENDER to the beginning of May, with
slight intermiSsion about Christmas
time.
Then there is no danger in this game
nor is it in the least rough or unwo-
manly. Players must keep the relative
position they held at the original line
up, so that there is no chance of hit
ting with each others sticks. Nor is
there any colliding. Girls are coached
not to stoop when striking the ball with
the hockey stick and, as an added pre-
caution, the stick is not swung up
higher than the shoulder. This rule is
rigidly adhered to, and if player
swings her stick to vigorously and too
far, the opposing side can cry, Sticks
and is entitled to free hit
Trough play in hockey is never good
play, and it is besides such bad form
that no girl would continue to play
rough. If she did, she would be re-
uuested to leave the team. While on
the ground there is no speaking or
shouting The captain is the only per-
son who is permitted to talk, and even
she says little. That brings me to tell
YOU about the teams. 1t takes, of
course, two elevens or twenty-five girls
to play match, and there are two UNI
pires and two referees. Thirty-five
minutes is allowed for each half of the
game, and the side that scores most
goals in the seventy minutes allowed
for match beats.
when a goal is made, the umpire
whistles, and the play stops. Then it
is announced One goal to All England,
let us say, and the balls is brought
back to the center. Something, of
course one side does not score at all,
and in very closely contested game
neither side might score. In the ladies'
international hockey match, England
scored 13 and Wales only l, and when
ireland instead Of Wales was the OPP
ponent England scored but three times
and Ireland only once.
Hockey may be played in any open
field, but a closely clipped lawn, pretty
firm in it's makeup, is best suited to the
game. The hockey ground is laid out
100x60 yards and is marked off in 80
and 25-yard lines in white in much the
same way that football field or tennis
court is laid out. The ball, which is
very hard and always white is about
the sic of cricket ball-that is, three
or four inches in diameter, and a little
larger than your baseball. Two goal