Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-13

meeting of the students this past
week following their return after
the Christmas vacation. Basket ball is
to be the immediate sport on the card.
Two squads were selected, to be
known as the first and second teams.
From the first squad will be selected
the girls to play In the in~terscholaStic
contests which climax the court season
at Fairrnont each year. Positions on
these teams are not necessarily perma-
nent, according to Jack Haas, director
Of this sport. If q player on the second
team shows marked ability she may be
promoted to the first, while in the
first line may be dropped II she does
not keep up her standard of play.
On the first team at present are Kitty
Barrett. Anne Kaufman, Marjorie
Montgomery, Jeane Builtman, Virginia
Newhouse, Elizabeth Love- Margaret
Robb, Patricia Newall, Charlotte Moss
and Madaline Fromm.
Second squad members include Helene
Gearing, Judy Chase, Janet Beers,
Catherine Shaw, Sylvia ~Stoutenburgh,
Carol Pelton and Evelyn Wink.
An interclasS basket ball tournament
for the school championship will be
staged between teams selected from the
prep, junior and senior classes, begin
| ming Thursday Of this week, with a
| game between the Juniors and Props.
A round robin will be staged, each team
| playing each of the others twice.
d A handsome trophy has been present.
| ed by Pearson & Grain, jewelers., to
be awarded the winning class. 1t is a
challenge trophy and will be in per-
petual competition unless some one class
wins it three times in succession.
Louise .pridmore, basket ball man
ager, who is arranging the varsity
schedule, reported at the meeting that
| she had booked games with the East
man School, Gunsten Hall, National
Park Seminary and Gallaudet College
Other games, to be played later in the
season, are tentatively scheduled.
Kitty Barrett, stellar forward on the
varsity six last season, was unani-
mously elected captain Of the '29 squad
Miss Barrett's team won the cham
! pionship of the -Four Tribes" tourna-
ment played at the school before the
holidays.
Central High School girls "Rodeo,'
so-called because 1t viii be an exhibi'
ton Of work with ropes and horses
(leather horses and swinging ropes, bt
1t said, is scheduled for January 2!
in the school gymnasium. 1t will b.
the first exhibition of its kind giver
by the physical training department O
the school, and parents and friends art
cordially invited TO attend.
Plans for the program have not beer
completed, but it Is known that In ad'
dition to the demonstrations with tn
horses and ropes there will be tai
dancing, under the supervision Of Mrs
Marguerite Steiss. including two mum
bers, the "Alcibiades" and the uni
versity- High; and an exhibition o
natural dancing with Augusta Kreine
and Anne Heider cooperating as Su
pervisors. Games also will be played
the character. Of which is to be an
nounced later. -.
Points will be scored by each in
dividual In the rodeo for her class. an,
at the close Of the program these point
will be totaled to see which class Is tn
winner of the meet.
Capitol Athletic Club has a full
schedule ahead of 1t in the immediat,
future on the basket ball court. In ad
dition to regular practice, three game
are carded. Tomorrow night at