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Updated: July 4, 2025
"And you made the crew, Ralph!" cried Polly. "Maybe I wasn't tickled nearly to death when you wrote me about it. And you're out for basketball too? How did you come out in Math and Mech? And who's taken Gumshoe's place this year? And you never wrote me a word about Class President Election, though I guess I've asked you in every letter. What makes you so tight with your news, any way?
The votes were cast again, Anne timidly dropping her slip in the hat with the others, and, as might have been expected, Grace was elected captain of the Freshman Basketball Team of the Oakdale High School. "Grace," asked Mrs. Harlowe, the day of the famous freshman tea, "have you asked some of the girls to help this afternoon?
If I can lose five pounds more this summer I shall be in fine condition for basketball next fall." "You did splendid work on the sub team this year," replied Miriam warmly. "I am sure that you will make the regular team next fall." "The upper class girls say they have very little time for basketball," mused Elfreda. "All kinds of other stunts crowd it out. I'm not going to be like that, though.
Anne shall be our mascot. As for Jessica, she is a matter of course." "I object," said Miriam. "I object seriously." "Object?" repeated Grace, turning in amazement to Miriam. "Why?" "You know that it is against all basketball rules to allow any one in the gymnasium during practice except the regular team and the subs.
"I'm the one who's to blame for all the carrots," pinching Gyp's cheek. "But you have sort of mixed things up." "But we had to win that basketball game," cried Gyp, "and we couldn't unless Ginny played." "Yes you had to win the basketball game," he nodded with a judicious appreciation. "You see, Lincoln got the cup for the series." "And Jerry paid the price yes." "For the honor of the school!"
They tried Rhoda at basketball, and she proved to be a regular "butterfingers." Laura, who captained one of the scrub teams, tried to make something of her, but gave it up in exasperation. Nan, Bess, and Amelia took Rhoda to the basement tennis court and did their best to teach her tennis. She learned the game quickly enough; but to her it was only "play."
Such a thing had not happened since the basketball trouble the previous year. "Eleanor started that paper, whatever it is," said Nora O'Malley to the Phi Sigma Tau, who stood in a group around her desk. "She was here when I came in this morning, and I was early, too. It is some masterpiece of mischief on her part, or she wouldn't take the trouble to get here on time."
If she should tell Miss Thompson the truth, the principal would believe her. Julia would receive her just deserts but, oh, bitter thought, there would be no more basketball that season. Grace felt that she had no right to sacrifice the pleasure of so many others, even for Anne's sake.
He has learned to depend upon himself. Fine, active games of competition like baseball, football, basketball and boxing, give nerve, self-confidence and poise. Through them the hand learns instinctively, and without a moment's hesitation, to do the thing the brain tells it to do. Down on The Labrador they say that Grenfell has always been "lucky" in getting out of tight places and bad corners.
There was a vast humming sound. The ship lifted sedately. It seemed to hover momentarily over the group of duryas and humans in the center of the grid's enclosure. But it was not hovering. It shrank. It was rising in an absolutely vertical line. It dwindled to the size of a basketball and then an apple. Then to the size of a pea.
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