The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1912-04-02
PARIS GIRLS CHAMPIONS
High School Team Makes Clean
up of the Games in the Sea-
son Just Closed.
VICTORS IN 8 STRUGGLES.
According to Dope" Southern
Championship Rests Upon the
Paris Aggregation.
VICTORS IN 8 STRUGGLES.

The girls basket ball team of the
Paris High School has just closed the
season of 1912. The two games which
were to have been played with the
Mason county High School have been
Cancelled.
Those who availed themselves of the
opportunity of witnessing the team
play throughout the season as they
wrested victory after victory from
their less fortunate opponents feel
that time can never erase from
memory the recollection of how vail
antly they fought.
Those who must rely solely upon this
review of the season will get but a
faint and inadequate idea of what this
phenomenal team did or was capable
of doing. Full Justice and credit
would not be rendered the young ladies
that make up the team. if the whole
account was to be written in capitals,
punctuated with exclamation points,
with every adjective in the superlative
degree.
The first game of the season was
with the Richmond High School girls
in which Paris won by the score of "A
to 0. This furnished but slight init
nation of what was to follow. The
majority of the games could hardly be
considered anything more than practie
games. Of the list of victories won
there are two that deserve special
prominence. With reluctance the
State University girls agreed to play
the Paris High School and then only
on condition that the game be played
on their own floor. Suffice to say the
game was played according to their
terms and much to the chagrin of the
proud wearers of the blue and white,
resulted in a victory for Paris by the
score of IA to 10.
1t would not be presumptive for the
team to claim not only the champion
ship of Kentucky but also of the
South. According to the available
dope" the championship of the south
lay between State University and
No game was played
between these two teams to decide the
but Paris defeated State
who defeated Louisville
who in turn defeated Pennsylvania
8 fitting climax to the season the
Paris team defeated the aggregation
from the Lexington High School.
1t would indeed be an injustice to
attempt to pick from this galaxy of |
stars the brightest. The |
pest and fairest way to comment on
The team is to consider them as they
always played; not individually, but as
4 whole. The Paris girls know the
game from start to finish and gener-
lily employed their knowledge to the
BEST advantage. They are all hard,
consistent players, the whole team
ong since learned the difficult and all
important ert of connecting with the
baskets. Their goal shooting was only
,xcelled by their floor work which
that ever saw them play will
admit vast ruly remarkable.
Elsa Heller, captain, and Ruth
Chambers, the two guards, are large
y responsible for their opponents
,sores being as small as they were.
rhe goals thrown over them were all
deserved. In passing it might be said
hat none of these girls were born
basket ball players. To Prof. johnson
90 much credit can not be ascribed.
His ability as coach can best be
judged by the record his team has
made. The young ladies who enjoy the
proud distinction of composing the
9l2 tea N are as follows:
Elsa Heller, captain. and Ruth
chambers, guards: Mary Hayden,
enter; Olive Taul and Nellie Rum
mans, forwards Gertrude olicer and
erome Chapman, substitutes. The
ames played this season are as fol-
ows:
Paris Al. Richmond High School O
'aris 81, Cynthiana High School /;
'aris IA, State University 10; Paris
0. Cynthiana High School O; Paris "a,
richmond High School ID; Paris 19,
,orbin acdemy ID; Paris 26. Lexington
iigh School 81 Paris 40. Corbin
.cademy 0. The Paris team made a
otal of 249 sctres to their opponents
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