Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-13

weeks, the program Ol ill
sports for the fair sex soon will be in
full swing.
Fall tennis championships will be
decided in each Of the high schools.
with the possible exception of Bust
ness and Tech. Indoor swimming
meets also will be carded and later in
the season practice will start for the
Winter basket ball series, which are
the major events on the various scho-
lastic programs in this vicinity.
Whether or not the Western High
School athletes develop a hockey
squad will depend entirely upon the
possibility of obtaining practice field.
Last season hockey had to be elm.
mated from the program Of the Hill
toppers. because no field was avail.
able. AS the sport Is one Of the
oldest and most popular activities at
Western, every effort will be made to
revive it again as soon as possible.
Hockey will occupy it's usual promi-
nent place in the seminary and col
lege programs. George Washington,
Marjorie Webster, Holton Arms, Ma.
deira, Eastman and a number of other
groups are planning their usual inter.
class and interscholastic series.
Several changes will take place in
the coaching ranks this year. Alice
Nichol, hockey coach and athletic di'
rector of Holton Arms for the past
half-dozen years, has resigned her
post to take a course at the Central
School Of Physical Education in New
York city and will be succeeded here
by Miriam FAIRIES, formerly assistant
director Virginia Griffith, coach at
the Georgetown Convent Of the Visi'
tation last year, will assist Miss
FAIRIES at Holton Arms this season.
Eugenia Davis will assist Virginia
Hopkins of George Washington Uni
versity in developing a strong hockey
eleven, and later as assistant basket
ball coach.
Miss Davis is a, member of the
Washington Field Hockey Club, anC
last year played on the basket bal
squad organized by the club at the
close of the hockey season. She prom
Uses to be a valuable addition to the
Buff and Blue staff.
Indoor swimming plans already have
been laid by the Washington Swim
ming Club, one of the special features
to be series of handicap swims
which the club hopes to be able to rur
off at the new Y. w. CT A. pool on 4
street.
Sanction for these events has no
yet been obtained from Y. w. c. a
officials, but it is thought that theil
cooperation will be secured.
Should the series be arranged a!
| planned. the swimmers will be give1
| handicaps to make the competition a!
even as possible, and prizes will b.
| awarded for high point winners at thu
close of the season.
Other Winter plans of the swimming
club include several indoor meets ant
competition in the South Atlantic A
A. U. tank events for this section.
| kamp Kahlert's Blue team, cap
| tanned by Kay Jones, won the annua
swimming meet, one of the feature
of the athletic program which ende'
| the camp season this past week.
| Blues collected so points to the Reds
81. Eloise Lindsay led the latter team
Events on the water sport program
included obstacle races. dashes, boa
races and form competition.
Track and field honors also went t
the Blues, who registered IS points t
| their opponents 40, winning the Ian
sport trophy for the year, as the,
proved themselves superior in an in
teresting group of events. which ir