Arizona republican., 1916-12-22
MISS HURLEY'S GIRLS WIN STATE TITLE WIEN THE MILE
 HIGH TEAM DEFAULTS CAME

girls have made this season Miss
 Hurley is the first woman coach who ever produced a championship team
 in the schools history.
 Every night after school Miss Hur-
 ley was on the job dressed in the with the girls ands did not stand off and tell them how the game was played. She used the Coach Geary style. She is a star player herself as sine has plaY9G on the Berkeley team or the coast and was featured in many games. The winning of the title puts a big feather in her hat and it was hard a"ned.
 The game with Glendale closed the ! basketball season for the girls. The decisive game vas to be played for the title but Prescott refused. giving the Phoenix high girls the honor. ThS does not close the season for the boys. They have several games to play.
 The girls took the Glendale girls into camp by the score of 20 to F. l This game was the hardest fought of the season. The school feared this game most and girls worked hard in practice SO they would make a good showin" Their laoors were rewarded with victory
 The gnls squad was divided into two parts The first team and the second and the second team is de serving of credit as they have been out for practice just as regularly as the first team
 Considering the size Of the school there are remarkably few girls who come out for this sport and stay with the practice throughout the season. The girls who have been faithful ar f Epr f,, tice and who made the first team, are, Aetna 1Toutz. Florence Harris. Mary Caughlin. Augusta TrOutz. Pearl White, Lillian Robinson, Adele New conner md Opal Brown.
 This is the second year the girls have met outside teams. Two years ago an appeal was made in the assembly requesting the girls to assist in up- holding the schools honorable name in athletics II was met with a poor response The season was a failure But this year the girls who perse- Vered drrng last years practice rap idly caTla into the lime light when they met the neie ehboring schools at the armory.
 The girls have mastered the game nearly as well as the boys and it woulG be difficult to distinguish them from professionals vixen in acton.
 .. Ii. IaNS. WnO haS been assist inS Miss Hurley in coaching the team, made the Ctatement that he had never seen such alert and clever players as the firh school girls dur ing the season. He treated the girls to an oyster supper and presented Miss TroutZ. captain of the team with 2 hoa 'tiful hcN: Of chocolates. Captain Troutz, the basketball ooss, proved herself worthy of being the teams head. She was always at the evening practices. She started her career as a star in Prescott and after her hard work Tn Phoenix high, she could eGsily make q college team As 9 Tnaning center she is hard to beat.
 Florence Harris received her first training under the supervision of Miss Hurley. Miss Hurley whispered the secrets of the game in her ear and she developed into shining star She can out-iump and out reach any girl in the state and her opponents were at her mercy during every stage of the game.
 Pearl White. the girl who is known never to miss a basket started in the game f: i.er carly youth She had fair knowledge of the game before she entered the Coyote clan. In the o-"''r'o'71a' crhaOl Pearl cOUlC he seer