The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-06-25
Especial Correspondence.1

! zs@ - THE RUNNING HIGH JUMP. rag
yet entered a crew in the New London
races. she has turned out some four
oars which have made good time.
Sage college,. the women's depart
ment of Cornell university, ia the only
other college, for girls which has Gone
much In the rowing hne The Sage
girls are more fortunate than their
Wellesley sisters in that they have
Courtney, Cornell's famous coach. to
train them. The varsity crew men,
too, are very ready to 90 opt with the
Sage girls and give them advice. The
Cornell girls have reached high state
Of efficiency in handling the heavy
spoon oars, and the great dream Of the
Wellesley girls is of an intercollegiate
regatta in which they may measure
themselves with Courtney's pupils. So
far their dowaser deans have been
unabk to overcome a prejudice asainst
having the Young women appear.
While ryv'ing easily holds the lead
In the category OF sports at Wellesley.
the running track. the tennis courts
and the basket ball field are not neg
fected. Basket ball Is In high favor at
all girls schools. and it is played with
an intensity which leaves visible re-
suits In the way of scratched faces.
sprains and bruises. Wellesley has
fine running track seventy-five feet
wide and hundred yards long, on
which the fair sprinters train their
limbs and lungs.
Bryn Mawr is the headquarters of
basket balm fact, athletics are more
favored by the faculty there than at
most OF the other schools. Every girl
on entering has to undergo physical
examination, after which she is given
certain amount Of gymnasium work.
which Is as much part Of the curricu-
lum as any study. In warm weather
girl is allowed to substitute outdoor
work for calistheRics, provided she
satisfies the gymnasium director that
she is taking her exercise conscientious
". Walking and bicycling are consid-
cred too easy to be full equivalent.
hour for hour, for gymnasium work,
but basket ball and tennis are regard
ed as satisfactory substitutes. The
Bryn Mawr girls have lately taken up
lawn hockey. or shinney, and it has
proved very popular. Golf is well
liked at Mount HoIyoke and Bryn
Mawr.
Mount Holyoke and Smith not only
have fine gymnasiums, but the coun-
try roundabout is just the sort to In
yite the girls to long tramps and ali
sorts of outdoor recreation. The
crowds Of ..rooters' who attend the
basket ball games at Smith prove the
popularity of the feminine form of
football at that institution. Fencing
e coming into favor at Smith, and at
The University of Michigan the foils
have large following among the wo-
men students.
Track games are the thing at vassar:
Field day in Poughkeepsie is hardly
less important than commencement it.
self. The parents of the girls who are.
@ compete in the contests come from
ong distances to see their daughters
lump and run, and the girls work as |
lard for sV' as the men work in the
Mott Haven games for the honor of st.
aching the initial Of their colleges to
heir sweaters.
The records made at the Vassar field
lay are more than creditabIe consider
ng that the girls have practically no
raining. from mans point Of view.
Besides this, the girls have to be I'M
Usually high up In their studies before
hey are allowed to compete. This
rear girl who was editor of the Vas
ar Miscellany broke two records-for
he running broad jump and the stand
ng broad jump. In the first she Gov
red Il feet 611a inches; in the standing
Jump she made feet inches. Another
.irl made the go yard run in 80 3-5
econds and the fifty yard dash in 6 3-5
econds. The running high Jump was
yon with the bar at 4 feet 21a inches.
In winter Vassar girls play hockey
. the little lake In the college
rounds, and at Sage. too, ice hockey is
'layed. Tobogganing Is universal
vinteE amusement at Sage, the long
nd steep bills Of Ithaca making fine
atural slides. a. Nv. FERRIN.