The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-29
Local Girl Leads
 Team to Victory

Every year the ball team of the University of Pennsylvania chooses for itself an official sponsor.
 She is always a beautiful and popular girl-and one whom all the chaps like.
 And her enthusiasm and her sor- row at having her proteges fail ever-and her interest and mental prayers for victory just naturally make the players determine to dig up the earth or now down every hindering blade of grass on the Gia- mond to win the game over their rivals.
 Now one day this year, the Phil adelphia University team was gaz- ing through a figurative long dis tance looking for just the right girl to adopt as their mascot.
 The task seemed mighty madden ing.
 They turned their big field glasses north, east and west. But the landscape was drab. They didn't spot any timber they thought was what Pennsylvania lacked or wanted in sponsor.
 Then they swirled the big glasses Southward, whereupon Capt. George Sullivan gave relieved and happy gasp.
 Up wonder in Atlanta, one of Bir- minghan's girls had tripped away for a visit to friends, and the glasses had focused right upon her.
 The telescope revealed laughing, bright eyes, softest, wind-blown hair, beauty and height to please even the most fastidious, Dixie disposition, sweet and frank-ard you could just tell at glance that she had regular understanding, and didn't know what getting angry was like,
 The more the Pennsylvanians looked, the better suited they were. Then through Captain Sullivan, they sought out the young lady and begged her to bear their colors, and be their official guide throughout the year.
 It was an unexpected and thus rather overwhelming moment for the Birmingham girl. But she wasn't the sort of South erner to back out when called upon to be a pinch hitter.
 So she said yes-and threw the first ball in Pennsy's first game. After which that team went out and shipped the game from Dartmouth college like nothing; and the boys came back and presented her with the ball with which they won the contest, Pennsylvania sweater and they framed up several enthu- siastic dinner parties TOT her. After which, they went back to Philadelphia; and the last news l read was to the effect that the Pennsy nine was winning handful of other games and pushing on to still greater victories.
 How's that for Birmingham mer's yelling magic wand"
 Want to know who the girl is?
 Miss Anita Hodges.
 Over in Atlanta she was the very much toasted guest of Miss Eliza beth Buchanan and Miss Margaret White, and these are just some of the parties in her honor an Atlanta paper chronicles in resume of her visit; Miss Buchanan's bridge tea at the Piedmont Driving Club: a dinner party at the same setting by Mrs. Claude Buchanan. Mrs. C. W. Lane gave her series of luncheons at the Capital City club; Mrs. As bury a bridge luncheon at her home on Ponce de Leon avenue, while Mrs. Isabelle Kemp and Miss Jamie Coleman were hostesses at separate card parties for the Birmingham visitor. Miss White had a se- ries of bridge affairs for her, as we'll as a lovely luncheon party at the Capital City Club. There were other things, too, put on by differ ent folk.
 Miss Hodges was declared to be one of the most popular visitors ever in Atlanta.
 She will be among the Brno;ng- ham and Alabama girls going to the Philadelphia university in June to the Senior pronas, and later to Princeton and New York. She will be a member of party, her stay covering several weeks.
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