The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-10-12


end of the field. Each side endeaVors
to get possession Of the ball and send 1t
through the opponents territory, pc
tween the opposite goal posts.
players are divided into forwards
half backs and backs. The usual line
up in five forwards, consisting OF one
center, two insiders and two wings
three half backs and the right ana leIt
backs. That, of course, takes ten play
ers. The eleventh is stationed at the
goal and is called the goalkeeper. The
goalkeeper has the privilege of kicking
the ball when it becomes necessary 1or
her to do so. She is the only player
so privileged She, however, has
hockey stick like the others. The cap
tain is generally center forward and
leads the game.
Stating the game is technically call
ed the bully-off.' To watch the two
center forwards, each trying to get pos
session of the ball, is very interesting.
They strike the ground and each 9TH
er's sticks three times in quick success
sion, and then, in flash, aim for the
first knock. The hockey sticks used are
unlike those I have found in America.
Ours are made of ash, usually, with
handle of spliced cane bound with
black thread.
"The fraternal feeling that associa-
ton with a hockey team gives is great
ly enjoyed by our English girls, and 1t
keeps our women young, Often moth
err and daughter will belong to the
same team, for there is scope for all
kinds of play and all kinds Of ability.
The forwards must be fast runners;
the halfbacks must have endurance ana
agility, but the backs may easily be
older and staider people. The goal
keeper must be calm and steady above
everything else. For when the ball gets
into the circle the excitement is tre-
mendous and only q self-contained per
son can serve well at this point,
"A great deal of etiquette Is OBJ
served in connection with ladies hook
ey matches in England, and one of the
curious rules of the game is that the
hostess secretary shall have tiny pieces
of lemon already cut up to be disttib-
uted to the players during the five min
utes recess. After a match has been
| played there is always afternoon tea
at the home of some lady nearby The
youngest girls in these regular hockey
teams are II, but women play up to the
age of so. Players begin to train IN
school, when they are about IL or Is,
| so that by the time a girl Is "a or 25
in the full flush of her physical gifts,
she has usually acquired firm grasp
of the scientific hockey. For it must
he remembered that hockey is scientific,
At,o Ill nj ouod stroke
is as carefully planned as the moves in
| billiards.
Miss Applebee is herself hockey
| player of note, as we'll as an all-round
athlete. At the Hemenway gymnasium
| she showed her ability to outfence ana
outiump all the other women students,
and she is an expert in tennis, golf and
| basket ball as well as in hockey. In
| swimming, too, she has remarkable
| record. and she is an unusual walker
| even for an Englishwoman At her
home in Yorkshire she has often, she
| saws. walked twenty-five miles across
! the moor day after day, and thought
nothing OF it.
| When questioned in regard to the cos
tunes worn by girls who play hockey,
| Miss Applebee explained that all play
ers are required to wear skirts Whlch
clear the ground by at least six inches.
| The big teams have costumes OF spe-
| cial design. The conventional cap,
when a cap Is worn, is Tam o Shan-
| ter with feather or pompon. In the
| matter of color there is, of course,
great latitude, and the majority or
hockey players are exceedingly PIC
| t,1resoue when contending on the green
for the honors of their eleven.-Beston
! Herald.