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

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Though the cult of badminton has been vogue among the collegians during several years, it had never before been so popular as it became this year. It is a game that does not gain publicity so readily as do many otherseperhaps because the players do not count the notice of the press as a value of the play. Whatever may be the reason for the lack of oral and printed discussion by the analysts, and despite this lack, it is a recreation that attracts and holds the interest of goodly numbers of the students. Your observer hopes that it Will not be construed as a violation of the proprieties 0f the game for the said observer to report that those especially active on the badminton courts this year were: Ruth Beakley, Betty Melcer, Marguerite Gaines, Adele Kirsner, Mary Elaine Pung, Lilian Erlich, Gloria Matyer, Ophelia Onderdonk, LeClaire Leslie, Louise Latham, Mary Dennis, Margaret Mullens, Mary Dever, Nancy Wilson and J ere Wilson. To Adele Kirsner goes the distinction of championship in this year's tournament.

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6W This sport, rapidly developing as first in popularity in the nation, is capably sustained in favor by the students of the college. In faithful practice as well as in games between class groups, it continues to be of first importance in intramural athletic contests. Four physical education classes were represented in the tournament which was held dur- ing the season of basketball. The decisive game in the finals of the tournament was won by the Reds in their defeat of the Grays by a score of two points. Outstanding among those scoring for the Reds was Magdalen Anthony and for the Grays, Carmen McCormick. Those competing in the tournament, as members of the several sections or class groups were: Gmy Team tFirst Sectiom: Constance J ones, Carmen McCormick, captain ; Lillian Velt- mar, Jo Coffey, Elaine Coutret, Maxine Brynston, Erin Mason; Talons tSecond Sectiom: Nelda Palsma, Pat Alexander, Alethea Politis, captain; J ane Nelson, J eanne Schreiber, Mary Katherine Haynes, Patricia Collins, J ean Thomas; Reds tTh'iml Sectiom: Magdalen Anthony, Margaret Coughlin, Mary J ane Bowles, cap- tain; Amory Oliver, Betty Miller; and Beauties tFourth Sectiom: Alice Brangen, Jacquelyn Conley, Elaine Dieter, Louise Os- wald, Nellie Hasler, Betty J . Lamm, and Gertrude McManus.

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14W The reporting of this sport of archery, so the present reporter opines, has uniformly 0c- Casioned too many and long continued searchings 0f the thesaurus; s0 bewilderingly multi- tudinous and protracted that the unknowing public has uniformly come to imagine it a recrea- tion much talked about but little practiced. To those of us Who have but Sketchily witnessed the performance of the game, its mention produces no more than literary connotations: ttgraceful and gracious? Rob Roy and Robin Hood, HAgincourt and Crecyf, and the like. Ancient and honorablett though it be, it is modern and realistic twithout prejudice to honom in the scheme of recreations provided for, and played by, the students of I. W. C. Notable among the devotees of archery, 1940-41, and distinguished as such on the campus, there are authentically named: Mary Margaret Morris, Betty Albin, Gretchen Bauer, Jean Powers, Carmen McCormick, J acqueline Coffey, Marguerite Gaines, Frances Thomas, Nelda Palsma, Carmen Torres.