f”
The UPEI SUN, March 18, 198i, page 161’ ‘
_ Intramu'rals
KEEP FIT CLASSES (WOMEN)
1 Monday 11:30 -12:30 P.M. -12:30 -1:30 P.M. 1 Tuesday 11 30 - 12:30 P.M._ . ~ Wednesday 11:30 —12:30 P.M.;12z30 * 1:30 P.M. Thursday 11:30 —12:30 P.M. Fri-day 11:30 -12:30 P M
. '.; 12:30 - 1:30 P.M.
Swimming Passes avai1ab1e at the Contro1 Room
Recreationa1 Hockey Recreationa1 Skate,
Concerning Basketball
u . . . . _ u n . . . . . , , , I I . .-
Monday ’ - 9:00 -,11:00 A.M. » Monday 2:00 — 3:30 PM Tuesday C1osed Tuesday 1:30 - 3:00 PM Wednesday 9:00 — 11:00 A.M. Wednesday 2:00 - 3:30 PM Thursday 9:00 - 11:00 A.M. Thursday 1:30 - 3:00 PM Friday 9:00 - 11:00 A.M. ..
Some years ago when the maiden students at American colleges began to pine for athletics and muscle—building games and pastimes — somethir1g that wbuld stir their spirits as the foot—ball contests stirred and animated their brothers — one James Masmith invented the game basketball. His design, ‘we are told, was to eliminate the roughness of foot-ball while preserving its less objectionable features, to enable the lion of ordinary foOt—ball to roar gently as 'a suckling dove and to adapt himself to the feminine temperTT-Tent. Nas'mith succeeded so far as to
.. I produce 'a which has since had extensive vogue in the women's colleges and “gh schools of the Republic: ' _
Basket ball is described as a game re—
sembling foot—ball, in which the object is to throw the ball into one of the two baskets (the goals) placed at opposite ends of the field. It is played by any number of persons, five or nine on a side being preferred for championship games, upon a "field" out of doors or within, of
any convenient size. It is thus easily adapted to '
all seasons and all weathers. Of course boys could play basket ball as well as girls and do so, at times, but the praises of the game Were sounded loud and long mainly because it furnished healthful, exhilarating and engaging exercise for girls in all sorts of weather.
Now canes the other side of the story. The gymnasium of the Cambridge Latin School for girls has been closed. The head master, Mr. Bradbury, explains why this was done. He says: .
n _"I have had some experience in Cambridg , Wlth basket ball, and I find that it makes the
girls rough, loud—voiced, and bold.
If the teachers can superintend the athletics and regulate them according to reason, I say also that 'I am in favor of a certain amount of athletics, but there is a big 'if' in the way.
Basket ball for girls is rougher and more injurious, that foot-ball for boys. one; Of the brightest students in my school is. now unable. to attend school and her mother told me the ‘ " : other day the direct and solecadse of: her illnesS was basket ball._ The girls knock eachi'Other _.
, dam}, Push each other 15,.” digit bumped Out of them, shout, grown bitter '1 1 felling and lose self-control. ” The seem ,,,less"_ , _ ' able to control themselves and keep within bounds than boys. __ [
Last fall the different classes organized
' girls' basket ball teams, and nothing I know “of in the school history has brought about such bitter feeling. The games were fierce. The result was that many parents complained and at my appeal the committee voted to lock up the gymnasium entirely until such time as‘ the city shall employ proper instructors or directors so we can control the exercise of pupils."
So far basket ball has not come into our Island pastimes, but there is danger that it. may, and the above experiences are here set down on the principle that there'is a ratio of 16 to l in favor of prevention, which is as gold to ' silver when contrasted with cure. Probably tennis and golf possess most of the advantage as healthful sports, while free from the ‘ objectionable features of basket ball.
Reprinted from The Morning Guardian, 1901
fr
STEAK ' HO US E ' mrbmdhhlzfnrhmrs
'3 K-‘MART- PLAZA
Ph.. 2-3673 2-3075’
W; W STUDENT
NIGHT“-
SPECIAL PRICES BOTH NIGHTS
[CRAZY HAT NI'TE WED .
" LADIES NIGHT
'MOVIES THIS . AFTERNOON‘ V & EVERY -' ¥ ' AFTERNOON
SHOWS THIS FRIDAY at 2 nm.
Four Seasons
My Bodyguard