Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-01
NATIONAL CAPITAL GIRLS
TAKING TO ATHLETICS
Increased 6trenuosity Is Shown by
Report Of the Fairgrounds
Director,

activities of tho department of plays
grounds of the District. maintains that
they are. and she has the statistics to
prove It
During the past spring two major
sports were conducted for girls in the
public graded schools by the depart
ment of Fairgrounds. Reports just
made for tho various Fairgrounds show
that three times as many girls have
despite the fact that this year there are
FEWER schools entered in tho plays
ground leagues
Ono Of the interesting things about
the past season OF public school ath-
taken to schlag ball." said Miss Gard
ner. Schlag ball. which is a sort OF
combination OF base ball and volley
ball. was tried for tho first time this
year. Despite the fact that It was en-
tfrely new and had to be taught from
the beginning. and also the fact that it
Is the most strenuous exercise that the
girls have had in the spring. it has
proved the most popular game which
has been tried by this department, and
has already become . popular street
game which IL played with tree boxes
for bases"
Tennis Championships.
The ascension OF schlag ball to
popularity has brought about tho doom
OF tennis as public school major
sport according to Miss Gardner. This
Is due largely to the fact that very
few girls can play tennis at ono time,
and. therefore q maximum amount of
playground space Is taken for a minis
mum amount Of athletic enterprise.
Tennis and schlag ball. which were to
coordinate major sports this spring
In the public schools. have resulted in
great increase in interest In athletics.
The schools were divided into eight
divisionA grouped around the eight
white Fairgrounds on which games
were played. Forty-eight schools entered
schlag ball teams in the leagues, while
The total number OF children engaged
in sport as representatives OF their
schools was 1850. This figure does not
include substitutes and the many hun
dreds Of teams which were organised
which were not officially recognized a.
determined in each branch of sport for
each division, and handsome trophies
wero presented to tho winning schools
by the department Of Fairgrounds The
various divisions with the champions
ship schools were az follows:
Tennis: Bloomingdale division. Gage
School, championship team-Ffrst,
Irene Schmidt Elizabeth Bradford:
second. Gladys Dickey, Elizabeth
Archibald: third. Lorraine Leese. vir-
S.nao oSof' Aoui ~ Auofey SiinHlss Aod
Gallinger division. Toner School,
championship team-First, Anna
Dement,. Mary Wrenn: second, Florence
May. Anna Mueller: third, Theresa
Staples. Bessie Tenenbaum: fourth.
Mary Mcmahon, Katherine Colbert.
Garfield Park division. Brent School,
championship team-First. Myrtle Young.
Louise Sullivan: second. Lulu McGrath.
Alice Malone: third. Myrtle Hurlock. Flo
| "a Aiderton; fourth. Emma Erb. Agnes
Nicholson.
Georgetown division. Jackson School.
championship team-First. Estelle Harris.
Dorothy King: second. Elizabeth Parlett.
Helen Sinclair; third. Helen Spencer. EN-
lily Kyle; fourth. Frances McNew. Emily
Beamer.
Mount Pleasant division. johnson
School. championship team-Ffrst. Fam
ME Krukof. Susie Bagby: second. Kath-
crime McKaig. Winslow Clark: third.
Katherine Wright. Margaret Smith:
fourth. Leona McGrew, Margaret Harvey
New York avenue division. Henry-Polie
School. championship team-First, Kath-
crime Dickinson, Esther Blakeney: Sec
| ond. Dora Abrahams. Rebecce Joekins;
! third, Lorene Shepherd. Hilda Levy;
fourth, Alma Phillips. Helen Smith.
Rosedale division, Webb School, cham
pionship team-Ffrst, Bessie Christman,
Louise Schultz; second. Regina Burns.
Margaret Soper: third, Cora Soper. Celia
Ryan: fourth. Almira Farley. Marguerite.
Cram. 5
Virginia avenue division, wallach
School, championship team-Ffrst, Myrtle
Crothers. Elizabeth Rice; second. Dorothy
Yose, Elizabeth Hutchinson; third. Chris
| tine Bartlett. Ruth Billings; fourth. Mary
Gaten, Dorothy Maloy.
Entered schlag Ball Teams.
schlag ball: BloomingdaIe division,
Gage School, championship team-Kath-
ryn Everett, Marguerite Wells. kathryn
Belnap, Mable keenan,, Frances Rooney,
Frances Walker, Clara kesler, Marian
ray. Helen Casey and Dorothy Gillgan.
Gallinger division. Weightman School,
championship team-Louise Hall. Anna
Hays. Helen Mcclellan. Loretta Mcclellan,
May Davis. Kathleen Smith. Ella Fuss,
Julia Ryan. Mary Hagerty and Dora
Kalker.
Garfield Park division. Van Ness.
School; championship lEdon 5eamEiza 6,;n
Setsky. Ethel Higgs. Erma Beckett, Lii
liam Corners, Mary Costello. Jessie Penn.
Lillian Stephens, Evelyn Goddard. Mary
Wood. Vivian Carr. Bessie Penn and Clara
Georgetown division. Hyde School.
championship team-C. Frances Nichols. .
Grace Young. Katherine Fry. Gertrude
McKeever, Hattie Wise. Evelyn Lipscomb.
zelma Allen. Hazel Allen. Anna Clark.
Picket and Pauline Freeburger.
Rosedale division, Blow School. cham /!
pionship team-Helen Dove. Elizabeth
May, Helene Schultz. Reulah Biggs.
Gladys Loveless, Susie Hillsinger. Helen
Cunningham, Ethel Cunningham, Ce-
ella King and Josephine Bennett {
Virginia avenue division. Cranch
School championship team-Mary Fisher
Julia Larner, Ray Farran. Margaret Ora.
ham and Mildred Lopp.
Mount Pleasant division. Ross School
championship team-Grace Weeks.
Eileen Dowd. Wilma Jerman. Annie
Dean, Julia johnson. Sophia Walman,
Blanche Philpitt and Frances kauf-
man.
New York avenue, Twining School,
championship team-Irene Kelly. Ros
sella Mcleod, Frances Freedman. Mar
saret Roy. Lois Gladding. Ruth Nuns
DAY, Edna May Ryan and Katherine
Forteney.
An increase in girls activities has
been noted throughout the entire school
year. according to Miss Gardner, who
states that in basket ball 1.o76 girls
took part on school teams, as against
52l of the year previous.
Mrs. Susie Root Rhodes. supervisor
Of Fairgrounds. has stated that In ad.
dition to the usual playground sports
for girls this summer much attention,
will be given to teaching girls to swim
at tho playground pools and many In.
ter-playground swimming meets VIII
probably be held.
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