Evening star., 1926-11-26

@EABODY sextet captured the
Plaza division championship of
the elementary school basket
1 ball league Wednesday after
noon, defeating Ludlow, 20 to
9 in the crucial game. This was the
title-winners' sixth straight victory.
They negotiated the entire series with
out the loss Of a game.
Mercedes Perry captained the Pea
BODY squad. which included Lillian
Strobel, manager; Madge Everett, Ell
len Jennewine, Edith Lyall, Gertrude
Billings, Sylvia Spering, Florence
Myer, Alice Owens and Anna Noonan.
Maude Parker, director of girls'ac-
tivities, will present the new champs
with a silver challenge cup, to be held
by them until the 1927 series is de-
cided.
The Section A championship of the
Columbia Heights Division League
was claimed Wednesday by the Park
View tossers, who also played through
their schedule without tasting defeat.
They blanked Monroe, IA to 0, in the
final clash.
Park View will meet the section B
winners next week in a final series for
the division cup. E. V. Brown Is lead
ing in this latter section, and II a VIC
tory is brought home Monday from
the clash with Morgan, the section title
wiQ be theirs.
Members of the Park View squad are
Betty Story, Madeline Cambery, Ger
trude Mcdonald, Mary Reid, Mary
Beck, Dorothy Jones, Elizabeth For
resta and Mary Hoy.
At Hood College the official 1926
hockey season was brought to close
last week with the annual Blue and
Gray game, in which the Blue team 8
winning streak o. three successive
years duration was broken when the
Gra.ys triumphed by the score Of 4 to 2.
The game was one of The best ones
fought out on Hoods hockey field this
year: it was marked by fast playing,
excellent team and clever stick work.
The push pass and lunges were used
to special advantage by members of
both teams.
Helen French, who lives in Wash
lngton during part Of her time while at
school, was one of the outstanding
members of the Blue teams defense,
her position being that of left fullback.
Miss French'S game is outstanding be-
cause of her exceptional ability in max
ing long, hard shots. She is quick and
tricky in her playing and the opponent
whom she marks in any game does
well to keep the ball for any length
of time, for in flash Miss French is
with her and by the clever use of her
stick has sent the ball off at a tangent
ready to be carried away by member
Of her own team.
Hockey was first played at Hood in
1902, so that the end of the present
season marks the end of the twenty
fifth year of it's presence, as an active
sport, in the curriculum of the col
lege. In fact, Hood was the second
college in the United States to intro
duce hockey to it's students. At the
time when Mrs. Constance NJ, X. Ap-
plebee was first bringing hockey to
the notice of the various women's col
leges. Hood had it introduced into it's
athletic curriculum through the ef-
forts of DR.. Apple, president of the
college.
Dr. Apple, after gaining first-hand
knowledge of the game during trip
to England, brought back what infor-
nation he had obtained and soon a
group of college girls of that day were
seen, in their hoop skirts and bustles,
developing hockey, then in it's infancy,
at the Maryland school.
Although losing out by a one goal