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

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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.

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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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14442254; This very ancient and honorable sport continues to thrive in the de- voted play of its numerous exponents among the students. It is claimed by some observers that the faithful devotee of archery bears the signs of its more delicate compensations in distinctively graceful attitudes and gestures. Even to the uncritical mind it is evident that an exercise of such manifestly subtle requirements cannot fail of its adequate rewards for practice. No other skill in games can surpass it for its demands that the aspirant must master poise. The bodily grace Which is thus effected is the apt accompaniment of mental poise. It is not unlikely that the student ttbowmanti has this aim, too, in mind when she aims so studiously at the target. Though this thought about archery be no more than interesting speculation, the fact remains that archery thrives.