The Washington times., 1922-06-21
LADY SPORTS
: COACH HEADS !
SEVEN TEAMS
Baseball, Track, Soccer, Bas.
ketbalI and indoor Ball Are
Handled by Miss Igiehart.

In st. Louis a woman won fame
through coaching q championship
boys baseball nine. :, But perceive
not one. but q blazing row Of
seven boys championship teams q
Baltimore girl produced this year.
Two soccer. s5 pound and lis
pound; a junior track. Patterson
Park: two basketball, s5 pound
and 116 pound; indoor playground
ball. 1l5 pound, and the Even.
ing Suns schoolboy's baseball
junior championship. The latter,
since disputed, will be tested again
tomorrow This record. not equaled
by another woman coach in Balti-
more, prehaps not In the whole
country, was made during the
school term, which offered nine
possible city championships.
The wonder girl is Alfredda Isie-
hart. physical training instructor
over Public School No. 7s. boys
and girls. Though she has ab.
solutely without any assistance
trained these teams to victory and
faithfully followed them on all their
trips. plucky Alfredda would
rather hide her name beneath .
bushel basket than take the credit
from her proteges.
These boys Of mine" her big
brown eyes glow lovingly when she
speaks OF them, have worked hard
and learned q lot thia year. Fair
play and team work, more than
anything else, pulled them through.
They stuck the whole year
through practicing hard. And
onfidenially-"those boys also
learned In baseball games they
couldn't get by me with ringers.
They just naturally discovered a
team that hauls in ringers loses
out IN the end, and wouldn't try
doing Il again any more than q fly"
| Baseball was the first game ever
played, 90 know II pretty thorough.
iy I'm fact. I've been playing It all my
life, You see my one brother, was
about my own age. He, myself and
other boys used to play games to.
gether so much-shot-sline. rifles,
marbles, tin tags never do that any
more,, and rode a bicycle. Az q hid
I did everything a boy did, except
swim Il DO nowl-that was because
my mother wouldn't let me swim"
Miss Iglehart's forte. az q natural
outcome Of these earlier athletic In
clinations has been physical train.
ing, teaching among young people,
which, she says. is her element, par
ticularly competitive sports.
Keeping close personal contsct with
her students has been the JOY of her
life. and training them through her
own code OF sportsmanship has GER
tainIy proved successful In Alfredda's q
case. Her boys have been compstine
in track, baseball, soccer. basketball,
etc, events which more than often
were the junior high and not the ele.
mentary class. In the recent Tome
school meet, for instance. she en-
tered q track team against teams all
above school 76's weight.
She has taught In private and
other schools, but insists she wants
TO "stick" with School 76 boys and
girls. We almost neglected 10
mention that her girls are also win.
ming honors In The Evening Sun
SprintbAn League. And che per.
sonaily has been participating IN
athletics as member of the peppy
baseball team composed OF physical
training instructors and others,
which played the ~" last Friday
night, and plays a return game this
coming Friday.
Another score in her favor IL tina.
she was instrumental IN having
Public School No. rs girls Join the
womar,'s Amateur Athletic Union
recently organized In New York
city. This schools Amateur Athlete
Union group. perhaps, possesses the
only Baltimore membership OF the