Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-01
GIRLS HOCKEY NEEDS
LOTS OF ENDURANCE
Miss Anne B. Townsend
Tells What Is Essential in
Making of Real Player.
Practiced Monday
PLAY GAME FRIDAY
BY SPICK HALL

by SfICh HALL
"HocKEY is much more strenu.
Gus game than tennis" said
Miss Anne B. Townsend, captain of the
ALI Philadelphia eleven, as she gazed at
her athletes at practice on the greens
ward in front Of the clubhouse Of the
Merton Cricket Club. ~ think that a
hockey player must be in far better
physical condition to play than a tennis
player. Then teamwork Is an essential
Of hoekey that cannot be overlooked.
OF course, there Is no teamwork in
dngles tennis and even In doubles It Ia
not nearly as highly developed as it
should be in hockey. That is to my
pind one OF the greatest things about
hockey, It offers the chance for team
Sork and does not put a premium on
Individual play"
Miss Townsend Is one of the best lawn
tennis players in the East. She has held
titles galore and she has been runner up
both singles and doubles in scores OF
tournaments. She knows tennis from
A TO &. She also knows hockey. She
has been one Of the leading field hockey
players in Philadelphia for the last fve
Or six years and when she says that
hockey is a more strenuous game and
enc requiring more skill than tennis she
IS In a position to know. This state ..
snent combined with one made by o. S,
Campbell twenty FIVE years ago puts
hockey In the front ranks OF American
sports.
In 1890 81 .02 Campbell won the
American lawn tennis championships In
singles. While he was in college he wai
an all American end. After his college
days and when he had taken up tenniI
seriously he once stated that man had
10 be in far better condition to play a
Eve set match Of singles than to com
pete In a football game Of seventy min
ntes' duration Miss Townsend says thai
n three set women's match was nothing
In compnr rison to q sixty minute hockey
blayed by women. In other words tielC
hockey 10 one of the most strenuous
sports and requires more real athletic
ability than any played by American
women and girls.
Skill Is Required
''In the frst few games of the year,
Miss Townsend said, 'it Is awful!
hard TO stand up under the strain, bu
after that II gets easier. We are abl
10 play now, after having gone througl
the inter club season, at full spec
throughout the sixty minutes. A 10
of skill is required to play the gam
properly. at the same time good physi
cal condition and wind are essentia
Tor a good player. One of the reason
Why we in America have never bee
able to play hockey as it should b
played Is because we have never ha
the coaching, Most Of us that 20 OIL
10 play hockey, play 1t because W
Eke il. Some become experts becaus
they have natural ability, but in orde
10 become really proficient it is neces
sary that a team should be coached b
soms one who is thoroughly cosnizar
of all angles of the game.
'In America we do not get thi
hoacbing, In England they do get 4
hhey play over there virtually all tn
YEAR, while we only play in the fal
trhis not only gives the English tn
advantage In coaching, but a lso give
them time to perfect teamwork, whic
is impossible with us in the short spac
that we have tn practice. For ex
annie, we're going to play a game ne'
Eriday with the Oakesmere Scho'
tcam, of New York. at Merton, - III
X ut day we play Bryn Mawr Colieg