SCHOOL GAMES FOR GIRLS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 134, 29 February 1908, Page 10

SCHOOL GAMES FOR GIRLS.

jTIio ordinary schoolgn;!, vlio usually only i jnects h,er teacher in the class-room ■of it • >:: r London. elementary.' . school, < would - have . itared-. in,astonishment. (says tho -" XXaily ; I ■ iMaik")»i£'sho;hs(jL;beon, at, the AclandiCouu- . :•••;■ iih School,: Kentish il'own, ' to- see; a. hand iof : ;'..„inistrossea.,-scramUing and':romping with an. .• Association football They wero sciool teachers being -taitght.;how- to -play games, ! • .•. ancL.-Miss- Alexander; Hughes," • the ■. ips-truo.-tress; .was, giving;, th,e . hrst- of. a . series,-of ■ orgaifjsifd games tfor"gifls™ ..v.,i; < yjCwaJhoup, ayiiyttelc. may uow.be de.voted ' ■ .' iiii alli':,cl'smQ«tarv. schools," said. ?wt/.( Miss. Hughes,. "'but mistresses do.;not, as v. - . ar-ruley: liiioty,. how- to' teach • their - pupils <,in v 'this.. department,- > and so,...these 4ecturc&; are. intended to show them, the way." . • : .Throe of::the,-games m which -the teaclwrs ,ire ieceivjpg let.sa.Ts aro — (1) Basket ball .Played se\en a side, tho . abject; boing to scor.e- goals by: throwing, a„ , • 1 •: football' into a small.-basket, at, tho. top. of :a • 10ft. polo.' ' (2) Target ball." Pfa.ygroumV cricket for i .. girlsiiirffhc ball, a. teniiis ball, the -Ijat .a / >.>•small: wooden, 'bat,: and. the., wicket: a: ~tiiv ■; disc on top of a stake ; (3)' Circle ball; ?Ah)rge, citclo of players . is formed, with ' one person un . the - centre, , ' wno has.:to evado-a football thrown at hpr ■ ' by.'tliQi- players composing-:;iho circle.-r.- .Tho • thrower :wiio. stnkes;/tl)o. playoi; m sthq con-: , tre then, talirs her place