The Girls of Central High at Basketball or the Great Gymnasium Mystery
Gertrude W. Morrison
Hardcover
(Forgotten Books, Jan. 30, 2018)
Excerpt from The Girls of Central High at Basketball or the Great Gymnasium MysteryCase, grimly. Are you ready to, play, or shall I take you out of the game right now?The red-faced girl made no audible reply, and the teacher signalled for the ball to be put into play again. Three afternoons each week each girl of Central High, of Centerport, who was eligible for after-hour athletics, was exercised for from fifteen to thirty minutes at basketball. Thirty-six girls were on the gro nd at a time. Every five minutes the instructor blew her whistle, and the girls changed places. That is, the eighteen actually playing the game shifted with the eighteen who had been acting as um pires, judges, timekeepers, scorers, linesmen and coaches. This shifting occupied only a few sec onds, and it put the entire thirty-six girls into the game, shift and shift about. It was in Sep tember, the beginning of the fall term, and Mrs. Case was giving much attention to the material for the inter-school games, to be held later in the year.Hester Grimes had played the previous spring on the champion team, and held her place now at forward center. But although she had been two years at Central High, and was now a Junior, she had never learned the first and great est truth that the physical instructor had tried to teach her girls.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.