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SA NDA L PH 0 J' Evolution DOROTHY YOUNG Graduate ITH considerable temerity we broach the subject on account of the re- cent Dayton-Scopes case, and the numerous comic songs and jokes arising from this and other Darwinian disputes. However, since there is evolu- tion and cvolutien, perhaps, with a stretch of imagination you may be able to see how a number of high school girls evolved from awkward, fumbling indi- viduals into truly efficient basketeers. The process was slow and stiffening, but now, as Virgil prophesied, it delights us to remember these tl1i11gs. On the second day of November more tha11 sixty maidens assembled in the gym, obeyed that electrifying command- Class attenshunl Somewhere in the dark recesses of their minds, they realized that this command marked the introduction of basketball into their school. Then followed the first stage of de- velopment consisting chiefly of strenuous exercises. If you were to ask one of the girls what was done during this period she would probably reply, Oh, we ran around the gym ten times and then we did that terrible deep k11ee bending. Certainly an incomplete explanation for these so-called work-outs made a great impression on all the girls, particularly because of the effort required to climb the stairs the next morning. Thus were the rudiments of the game planted O11 fertile soil, and, as in evolution, the sturdy plants alene survived. The pivot was mastered with a few good laughs, and passing was brought almost to a point of perfection. When, at last, the players were deemed worthy of advance- ment they left the gym for more spacious quarters in the assembly hall. The new floor was dedicated by a Senior-Junior practice game, and the11 that uncertain period known as preliminary conditioning began. The girl that played forward last week was playing guard this week and so on, until each one became as clay in the hands of a master sculptor. For surely our basketball coach, Mrs. H. C. St. Clair, 'possesses the secret of modeling such crude material into finished players. On the whole, about twenty practice games were held. After each one the girls proudly displayed scratched and swollen fingers, either swathcd in gauze or painted with iodine. These were for awhile regarded as the Crois de Guerre in basketball. At the close of the second stage there were six teams -a senior, a junior, two sophomore, and two freshmen-ready to prove their strength and ability and determined to bring victory to their respective classes. Now we come to the third and last stage, a11d we find ourselves in the hall witnessing the tournament games. There seems to be so 111any players and such a riot of colors, in head-bands, arm-bands and ties, that at first we are perplexed, but after awhile we are able to distinguish the Juniors by their Kelly green from the Seniors, arrayed in lavender, etc. Can it be possible that these agile basketeers performing such tricky passes and well aimed shots are the same girls wl1on1 we saw in the gym a few months ago? We shall let the reader judge--NVas it evolution or resolution? page one hundred twenty-seven
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