Evening star., 1923-03-25
PROUD OF TEAM.
Central High Has Girl Ex'
merits in Rife Use.

TSEE Central High School facGity
/ and pupils are all very much In
terested in the progress Of the girls
rife team. which Is one Of the etaF
organizations of the school and has
mere than once before made records
tc arouse and sustain this great
rride that the school as a whioe mas
! IL its team.
The first match OF the season vas
/; held February aS. when the SentEa'
High Schools team. The match was
shot of on Centrars range and the
positions used in this match were
prone and offhand. The Central team an
dropped 4 4s. cut OF "a. =, Doss,n,s ynsse sVs
score of s93. Helen Stokes OF Cen
trail won the highest total scoTe in
central's team included LOIS
Thempson. Helen stokes' 8 E3iz.Ss,I; Earr,SaI
Monahan and Louise Evans The
eirls on Westerns team We're v.
Brant, K. Heurioa. N. Fowle. A. Eich-
elbe"gor. v. Collins aand NJ. Wedder-
burn.
one of the mcst interesting matches
Of tho season took place last Week
| when Centrars team defeated the
! much-vaunted girls rife team of the
Oakland High School of Oakland,
Calf; by a sore sn Of AT to 40 cine the
! first Geographic match in which the
girls had taken part. and results
were awaited with much easerness.
The positions used IN the match We're
prone. sitting and kneeling. and the
shooters to re,resent Central were
Adelaide Cotter. Anne Delano. Eliza
beth Griffith Bernardine Haycock,
; Annette IIord and Pat Nancy. An
nettc Hord starred on this OCCASION
closely seconded by Adelaide Cotter
not one had had any previous ex-
perience in match shooting and that
lis why the results were especially
pleasing to the girls and their
coach. Walter Stokes
THIS was the first defeat ever eN-
perienced by the Oakland team.
While the girls feel indebted to
/ their faculty adviser, Miss Hart. and
| Katherine Edmonston. captain OF the
George Washington University gtrls.
| and assistant coach of the present
Central team-Credtt must also be
| given Lois Thompson. the captain.
and Margaret Somerville, the man
| ager. Of this crack team"
These two girls have divided be-
| tween them most Of the honors that 1t
| is possible for a girl to receive at the
school.
! Lois Thompson is captain or this
team and Of the schools swimming
| team, secretary OF the senior class TO
| be graduated in June. editor of the
| ei-ls' sports department Of the school
| magazine. the Review. and president
| Of the Girls c Club, the honor club
/ for girls Of the school. She has won
| three school letters so far. the c in
swimming for 1921 and 1922 and the
c in rifle for 1892.
She is also president Of the Capitol
! Athletic Club Of Girls. o private So
ciety Of Washington girls interested
| in sports that has already won place
| for Itself among similar organiza-
! tions Of the city.
Margaret Somerville is manager of
| the girls rife team, vice president of
the athletic council of Central,
prophecies of the senior class and a
member Of the girls swimming team.
She has also recently been chosen as
one of the members of the girls de-
batting team which will go to Harris
burg some time this spring TO debate
with . girls team of Harrisburg Cen
trci High School.
MISS Somerville is in charge Of girls
sports news TO- the Bulletin, the
schools weekly newspaper, and is
president of the Zodiac Club, private
society which has received the sane
ton of the school board.
These girls are both attractive all
around American girls.