Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-01-31
GIRLS BASKETBALL
WON BY VISITORS
Eastern Female High School
Alumnae Sextet Easily Defeats
Annapolis Blues.
ALL THE BALTIMoREANS STARS.
State Capital Girls Score Three Point
Against 40 Miss Hall Excels for
Home Team.

A novelty in sports in the way OF a
basketball game in which the contest
| ing teams We're young ladies, took place
here Saturday afternoon at O'clock
in the st. Johns College gymnasium.
1t vast he first game of the kind
| here and attracted a crowd of suecta-
tors, friends of the local team. as we'll
| as sport lovers. The match was be
tween the sextets of the Eastern High
| School Alumnae, of Baltimore. and the
| Annapolis Blues.
The contest resulted in a decisive
victory for The Baltimoreans. The
! was 40 TO 3. The local girls put up a
| gallant fight. but the Baltimoreans
| showed a more finished style of play
| The Annapolis girls were entirely out
classed by the Visiting team.
Miss Mabel Obrecht and Miss Esteue
McElroy played in grand style for the
Eastern High team. Miss Hall was the
performer for the Annapolis girls.
To those who have seen basketball
as played by men, the playing of the
visiting team was treat to behold as
but few could realize that girls could
develop such team work Those whc
have never seen girls play before. en-
joyed the sight of twelve strong. virile
young women showing an aptitude for
athletics which revealed the fact that
girls are willing to sacrifice time from
trifiing pleasures for the benefit Of
exercise.
The first game that the team calling
themselves, for the want of a better
name, THE Annapolis Blues, was
against the team of the Annapolis High
School, and resulted in a walkover for
the Blues. The High School team
had but few candidates, no coaching
and. at the time, no place TO practice
except an open lot Their showing
however. was as good as could be ex-
pected under the circumstance. Feel
ing that members OF the squad should
play against team OF some calibre
so that the individuals would see trr
value of practice and team Horb M
Graham Moss. who has been euarhIrr
the Blues, arranged q game a.fb fte
team known as The "Eteruers
There is no douht huf ubaf wr w
picked the right team f1 show H
charges what can hr dose
The team of the Eastern IUra
Alumni is cumua.ad rE raanr m
mostly fair youuE girls ana haNa
uated from the Eastern slIrh @lHnaI
Baltimore. duriuE the Hasf rre rrar.
and their team @urk sHeHH fh fFH
have been Eivine O. raed feal a affsa-
tion to the game
The game was schedu1el fer tana
O'Clock. hut owine t1 ffa tsfanrre af
the arrival of Professor sturdy. aan
had consented to acf as referee. On uas
3.5e before they commenced Az tnH
tine all available chairs were oreu-
pied, and there was but little standing
room left Within two minutes OF TIE
i start OF the game. il appeared thar the
Blue team was Outclassed. and this
impression was substantiated bv the
final score.
While the whole team representing
Eastern" played a good game, the
work of Miss Mabel Obrecht and Miss
McElroy was of such high order. it
looked as if these two could have play
ed the entire Blue" team to a stand
still. The shooting for goals by Miss
Obrecht was almost uncanny, while
Miss McElroy's support contributed
largely to the scoring.
The Annapolis team was handicap
ped by the absence of one of its best
forwards, but. irrespective of this. ii
was clearly shown that a great amount
of practice and training will be requir-
ed before they can hope to class with
team of such capability as the East
erners." Miss Hall. the captain of the
Blues" played good game, but her
support was ragged, owing to the ap-
parent ineXperience of her teammates
The valuable exhibition put up by their
opponents will help develop the local
team, and if these young ladies will
give up more time and train more rig
idly, there is material enough of prom
| ise to hope for better playing in the
| future.
The young ladies composing the
BLUE team are very grateful to the
officials of st. Johns College for per-
mitting them to use the gym" and all
| those witnessing the game Join in
thanking them for their courtesy.
! The lineup:
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