University of the Incarnate Word - Logos Yearbook (San Antonio, TX)

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4w 4W The distinctively seasonal game in the repertoire of college sports as played in I. W. C. is the mid-year game, field hockey. Except for an occasional threat of forbidding weather, and an even rarer fulfillment of the threat, there is scarcely a single full month of the year in Which the other sports might not be practiced. When hockey is played, however, you may know that the Winter is come. It may be a mild, an apologetic Winter, but hockey establishes its identity, as it gives warrant to the playing of the game. When the relation of the winter season and field hockey is assured, you will see the teams on Mulvaney Field. When practice hours have pre- pared the players for contest, and the regular games are played, there will be offered to the observers view an ordered panorama that is excitingly delightful to behold. Between the goals the swiftly moving players, the Wildly waving sticks, the elusive ball, the pattern of change in advance and retreat, the shouts of players and spectators, and the loud acclaim of triumph when the goal is won! It is not only a Winter game, but an ex- cellent game for winter, even the winter of San Antonio.

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6W1 Basketball is increasing more rapidly in popular favor, among players and watchers alike, than any other American game. This fact may perplex those Who are reluctant to face it openly, but the fact is there. The lover of the game explains the circumstance by representing that there is no other sport which brings with it such rapid persistency 0f thrills and suspense. It may have been at a stage of its development, as described by a writer of news, Tia mildly exciting game to watch. It is still exciting, and more exciting, but no longer ttmildly so. It is inexhaustible in thrills, packed with suspense. In our college basketball is played in practice and scheduled contests between classes and sections. The playing as intra-mural adds to rather than detracts from the sustained general interest in the exhibitions. It is worthy to name, as among the players of the year, Patsy J acobs, Mildred Norton, Susan Ill, Daisy White, Maude Ellen Brite, Mary Margaret McCann, Gertrude Zuberbueler, Betty Lawrence, Virginia Anderson, Alice Sullivan, Beth Cotter, Jane Nelson, Emma Reitmeyer, Katherine Zuber- bueler, Maxine Brynston.

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Sportsmen of this age of speed, delight in the dazzling activity of badminton. The game is even faster than tennis. T0 hit the shuttlecock with the racket in such a way that it will fly over the net requires constant, rapid and sure movement. Its venerable ancestor is the game of battledore and shuttlecock. This pastime served as a diversion for all classes from its invention in the fourteenth century. The cock was a cork into which feathers were stuck; the battledore resembled a tennis racket. Students at the college who showed special ability in the sport include Marguerite Gaines, Mary Frances Jackson, Adele House, Marian Seng, J ean Fitzgerald, Martha Franza and Margaret Pickering.