Havergal College - Magazine Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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Havergal College Magazine BASKET-BALL. Basket-ball has been very much alive this winter and several good teams have been formed. On the whole, a marked advance is shown in combination, the teams playing with the head much more than formerly, but even yet the science of the game needs to be practised. For example, in the senior team a criss-cross formation for passing proved very effective in several games, but when the opponents had solved the difficulties of this it was not changed for a more complicated system, and through this lack, in the later matches, proved almost valueless. Tn baseball, the pitcher varies his every ball, as does the bowler at cricket, and several times during a match the tactics of a team should be changed as soon as the guards circumvent them. A very bad habit of leaA r ing one ' s opponent and rushing up to the basket on the off chance of getting the ball if the thrower missed, was apparent on one or two occasions, and cannot be too thoroughly condemned; it is playing entirely into one ' s opponents ' hands by giving her a clear shot at the basket. Finally, it is a good team that can rally when the goals begin to mount up aga inst it, and the only way to do this is to keep a little reserve force for the second half, and also not to charge oneself with the responsibility of the whole game, and to embark on a frantic attempt to do everybody else ' s work save one ' s own. In such a case, when a team needs to rally to win the match, let each girl redouble her energies in her own par- ticular part of the game, and above all guard your own especial girl like a lynx, so as to limit the opponents ' score even if your own side does not score again. This defensive part of the game is often omitted and too much importance cannot be given to it. The Boarders are champions for 1914. Matches. On June 4th, 1913, Past v. Present, 13-12. This was a very enjoyable game and we were delighted to do battle against the Old Girls led by Audrey Fisher. At half time it looked as though the Present were to be winners as the score was 10-5 64

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Havergal College Magazine The results of the Royal Drawing Society ' s examinations ar- rived in October of last year, and showed a very fair standard of work had been reached. No drawings have been sent np to the exhibition in London as the art work has been carried out on rather different lines. We are hoping that now that the warm weather is returning we shall be able to have a sketching class in the woods and parks around Winnipeg, and ' soon we are hoping to do more ambitious things with the design work in the school. One proof of the gradual increase and appreciation of Art in this city is the fact that the collections of pictures which from time to time are brought to the Industrial Bureau meet with more and more success and popularity. The last set of pictures were most interesting and I think several have been procured as the nucleus of a permanent collection in the city. The School too has been enriched by the addition of several pictures. Lady Jane Lindsay presented the school with eight reproductions of her own beautiful illustrations to John Ingles- ant. These have been framed and now form a valuable part of the school collection. Some of these pictures are etchings, others are wash drawings, and all are most valuable from both the artistic and the historical points of view. There once was an elephant Flossy, Whose airs were exceedingly saucy, Teenie and Jean Were the inner machine, Of this wonderful elephant Flossy. An egg is a thing to despise, Keep away from the spot where it lies, Matric. II. had one, And the school has begun To know how to find eggs without eyes. L. A. C. L 63

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Havergal College Magazine in their favour. However, during the second half the Past succeeded in breaking down the defence, and the game ended in a win for 1 jje Past by 13 goals to 12. The line-up was as follows : — Present. Marian Sweeny Jean Bell Elsie Scrimes Mary Watson Antoinette Sapte Valerie de Bury Thelma Duncan June 10th, Past v. Present, 16-12. September 23rd, Present v. Past, 12-7. Evidently refreshed by the long vacation the Present team beat the Past by a good margin. Line up : — Past. Forwards Marjorie Martin Natalie Hartshorn Centres Irene Cavanagh Dorothy Martin Bettie Machaffie Guards Elsie Patton Audrey Fisher Present. Past. Marian Sweeny Forwards Beatrice Baker Jean Bell Irene Cavanagh Mary AVatson Centres Doris Baker Josephine Anderson Emma Tupper Margaret ' Kelly Betty Machaffie Laura Agnew Guards Marjorie Martin Thelma Duncan Audrey Fisher Oct. 7th, Past v.. Present, 40-8. This game was what might justly be termed a walk-over on the part of the Past. It is true that a substitute was playing instead of Thelma Duncan, 65