Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-19

tcaCn CLASS OdSkct Ddtl.
Tennis will be the first Fall activity
to get under way. Practice for the
annual tournament for the singles
and doubles championship of the
school will begin this week. probably
Wednesday afternoon. The Webster
ties have obtained the use of the
Monument Park courts each Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday
afternoons from to o'clock.
Among the leading players OF last
year who will be in competition again
this season are Barbara Brown, Eliza
beth Jones and Virginia Peasley. Bea-
trice Zeizler, No. l racketer on the
varsity team last Spring, will not be
back as she graduated in June.
Miss Hickes has announced that the
tennis tournament probably will get
under way about October Is.
Hockey and baskf Ill will follow
tennis, with interclass series in each
sport being followed by the selection
of the varsity squads and participa-
ton in interclass series.
TwO-thirds of last years varsity
hockey squad has returned, including
five outstanding players, Dorothy
HUMPHREYS, half back: Mary Lynn
Giles, who starred in the back field;
Marian Evans, goal keeper; Lucy
Barry, center, and Margaret Hess.
intercollegiate games probably will
be scheduled with Holton Arms and
George Washington.
Varsity basket ball players who will
be seen in the line again this Winter
include Frances Whitney, Marian
Evans, Lillian Slusser and Amelia
Dickens in the fore field: Elizabeth
Jones. Leta George, Virginia Peasley
and Virginia Sumner at centeE and
Mary Lynn Giles, Dorothy Humph-
reys, Anna Wright, Lucille Schumann.
Ida Ratliff. Helen Nernier and Bar
bara Brown, guards.
According to Miss Webster arch
cry will be a, part of the program at
her school again this year with jave-
lin throwing as an innovation. Spe-
cial attention will be given to the
development of both of these sports.
~, Swimming periods will he held both
for day and night pupils in the Jewish
Community Center pool with classes
in elementary instruction and in nor
NAL work three times a week on Mon
day, Tuesday and Thursday.
Speaking of women i'm sport. Wash
ingtonians who gathered on or about
the Potomac to witness the finish of
the most spectacular speed boat re-
gatta ever staged in this locality were
treated to an unexpected innovation
which marked an important epoch in
women's sports. Not only did they
see two daring sportswomen racing
neck.and.neck with the most skillful
speed pilots in the country-beating
some of them at their own game
but they saw these same two
matched against each other in the
first race of this type exclusively for
women ever run. And those who saw
it realized that women are entering
another field of sports al one time con-
sidered to be exclusively for men.
That a woman could be depended
upon to stay putin a shallow boat,
Swimming the water at so to so miles
an hour without fainting or becoming
hysterical, would have been consid-
cred highly improbable not SO many
years ago-much less that one Of the
fair sex could pilot this same streak
of CREASED - lightning with skillful
hand and cool Judgment! "A woman
at the wheel of a speed boat? Perish
the thought past, generations would
say.
Yet, here she is. not only plotting,
but running keen race. Both of the
women who participated in the two
day classic on the Potomac proved
themselves to be formidable oppo-
nents in any company. And each has
furnished a history-m making epoch in
water.racing. Mrs. w. j. Connors of
Buffalo. driving the Okeechobee, dis.
tingdished herself by winning the
Secretary Of Nays cup race, thus