Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-22
"eYM" BLooMER GIRL
PLACED UNDER BAN
EDUCATOR CALLS
BASKETBALL IMMopEsT
Reminds Him Of Bathing
Suits Struck Him Hard When
Youns-eets Rule for chaperones
for Athletic CosEds

Special to The Herald
PITTSBURG, May 2f.-School Con-
troller Adam Hahn Of Allegheny is
sadly shocked. When he visited the
Allegheny high school the other day he
found a number OF sweet girl students
attired in bloomers and playing basket
hall with boys who were dressed in
tights.
Controller Hahn made few remarks
about the matter at the meeting of the
board of school controllers last night,
and they just laughed but today he
went to see the city superintendent
about 1t, and there Is going to be
change.
AT the board meeting Mr.. Hahn said:
II went up to the high school today to
attend some school business and stepped
into the gymnasium to see what was
doing there. There was lot of young
girls, Is, is or II years old. dressed in
bloomers, playing basketball with a lot
of boys of the same age, dressed in
tights.
Il noticed one thing about the game.
Only the girls with the shapeliest limbs
and best rounded bodies played basket
ball. The better looking they were the
surer they were to be found in
boomers.
Nov, a good many years ago 1 went
to Atlantic City. l was young then.
When | made my first trip down to the
beach l was shocked. But 1 soon be-
came used to it, for there were enough
old folks there to keep the young folks
in subsection. But these high school
boys and girls have no chaperone with
them. They are just turned loose in
the gymnasium. / think there ought to
be couple of teachers to remain with
them while they are in there, and
would favor the separation of the sexes
altogether"
The other school controllers laughed
at Controller Hahn's speech; but he
took the matter up with City Superin-
tendent John Morrow today and now
there is going to be change.
The girls are very mad at Mr.. Hahn,
who, they say, is too pernickety." what
ever that is. One pretty young miss,
who admitted she belonged to the
basketball team, said:
1T is a good, healthy sport, and Mr.
Hahn needn't say we play just to show
our forms. If we didn't play we
wouldn't have any forms to show. I'll
admit that l think l have a good one;
but l didn't have until played basket
ball. Before that l was Just as
scrawny! You'd think was some other
girl now!"
The Allegheny high school girls
basketball team is one of the best in
the country, and has defeated all
comers. The members have played
number of match games with teams
from other schools, but the teams from
the other schools made the Allegheny
girls agree that 1.-The horrid boys should
not be admitted" The Allegheny girls
say this is prudishness
Won't Play Under Chaperone
The young miss who submitted to an
interview today said:
These other girls aren't a bit better
than we are. They would be just as
willing to kick up their heels IS any of
us, but they've got the idea into their
heads that these things are all right so
long as you never let a boy see you.
For my part, don't care. They can all
come when I'm playing, and I'll just
play in as ladylike manner as it's
possible to play basketball. No girl
could play basketball in skirts
and be a lady. She'd expose herself a
good deal worse than she does in
boomers
But they are all angry at Controller
Hahn. They say he is Quitting in."
They always have played basketball
with the boys, and none of them have
suffered any great moral lapses vet.
They think Controller Hahn is trying to
reform the world to the same views he
held when he was first shocked at
Atlantic City. If they have to have
chaperon they won't play