Evening star., 1925-01-11

There is no sport for which. if there
is demand that the club will not
add TO its curriculum. Basket ball,
swimming and tennis place in the
first rank, and then come base ball,
horse-b back riding, bowling, skating,
hiking and cycling Providing ar
rangements can be made to obtain a
coach, soccer and hockey will be of
fered next Fall. The equipment used
is Marjorie Webster gym for bask ct
ball and regular gymnasium activ-
titles, Mondays: Central for basket
ball again on Wednesdays, and the
Y. w pool for water sports. also on
Wednesdays.
Much of the clubs success has been
due to its patrons, two prominent
clubwomen of the city, Mrs. Harriet
II. Locher, president of the League
of American Penwomen. and Mrs.
George G.. White, former parliamen-
tartan of the league. These two
freely give of their time and advice.
One or both of them accompany, as
chaperons and pals, the girls on all
out-of-town trips when the Nets
go forth to conquer alien foes. Mrs.
I,ocher turns over her studio for all
gath srings. both business meetings
and social functions. The former
take place the first Thursday of
every month and the latter, well, on
all the festive dates.
Through HRS daughter, Miss Olga
Crandau, an active member of the
club, Harry M Crandall keeps ip
touch with these girls and encoura ges
them in their athletic progress and
high ideals. Several times a year
Mr. Crandall sends up slow motion
nj nf ha In
every sport that has been photo
graphed. A projection room is con-
veniently located in the same build
ing as the clubs apartment.
Because the club is so thoroughly
organized it feels that it can offer
its advantages to a larger number of
girls. Although the larger number of
the girls are in business or a pro-
fession the doors are open to those
m meeting the following requirements:
Two references (relatives not ac-
cepted) and payment of initiation fee
of $3>on entrance and dues of 81 in
three months. This amount includes
participation in all the sports and a
medical examination of heart, blood
pressure, lungs and skin. The officers
of the club are: President, Miss
Gladys Mills; vice president, Miss
Magdalene Desio; athletic director,
Mrs. Camille OHara; treasurer, Miss
Carmen Hughes; secretary, Miss
Adelaide Boyd.
Before the basket ball season has
run its course the Nets will play off
from % to 30 match games. About
half of these already have been
scheduled, those with the Basket Ball
League sponsored by the Women's
Athletic Council. For dates inter
spersed with the league games, Mrs.
OHara is negotiating with Temple
School, Philadelphia; Fredericksburg
Normal, Teachers College, Baltimore;
National Park and several independ-
ent teams of Maryland.
Besides other accomplishment, the
Metropolitan basket ball team has
won the championship of the adult
teams of the District for the last five
years, took first place in the South
Atlantic series in 1928, and missed
out by. one point for the same place
in that series in 1924. With all but
one girl of last years team in the
lineup this season the girls expect
to make history repeat itself.
The Basket Ball League, under the
Womens Athletic Council, fairly
rushed into action last Tuesday night,
and has been travelling at top speed
over the various courts of the city.
The Metropolttan-Pr1ne Tray was
surely a battle to the finish, but the
other games have been contests in
good form. The Capitol-Walter Reed
match recorded several fouls, but one
must remember that the box score
does not always depict the character
of contest. Fouls were committed
because of lack of knowledge of the
girls game of basket ball on the part
of some of the players, and because
many of the girls so outplayed them
selves, for the amount of training
they have had this Fall that they
lacked poise and the high type of
coordination necessary in fast
game. Gross roughness was not
feature of the evening
There are even extenuatiug circum-
stances connected with the Metro
politan-Princess game. A cool con-
sderati ton in the aftermath will re-
veal a troubled atmosphere This was
not only the first game of the season.
but the first and history game of the
league IN It's present organization
with the city-wide prestige. Then
the date was unfavorable. Tuesday
followed the holidays too quickly, a
fortnight lacking in practice and
training, and abounding in excite
ment 1t is, indeed. too early in the
season to expect business and pro-
fessional women to fall into the
steady stride for which college teams