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Updated: October 4, 2025
You did exactly right, too, Marjorie, when you sent us all about our business. I'm sorry it happened, but you remember what I tell you, Mignon has hurt herself a great deal more than she has hurt you." After the echoes of the dance had died away, basketball received a new impetus that brought it to the fore with a bound.
Gray," she said, patting the old lady's hand, "it is better for us to fight it out by ourselves. If Miss Thompson knew all that had happened, she would forbid basketball for the rest of the season. She is awfully opposed to anything of that kind, and would champion Anne's cause to the end, but Anne would rather let matters stand the way they are, than lose us our basketball privilege.
Jimsy had played as soon as he could walk alone football, baseball, basketball, handball, water polo; life was a hard and tingling game to him. "It's an even chance," said Stephen Lorimer, "and if Honor's palling with him can swing it, can we square it with ourselves to take her away from him?" He carried his point, as usual, and the boy and the girl started in at Los Angeles High on the same day.
They promptly accepted the challenge, and, when the second practice game was played, again came off victorious. Grace's old basketball ardor had returned threefold and every available moment found her in the gymnasium hard at work. The other members of the teams had imbibed considerable of her enthusiasm.
"He's a villain, I know he is," asserted Grace, "but he's too sharp for me." "Nonsense," laughed her father. "Having no basketball this winter you are bound to devote that surplus energy of yours to something. Are you making Hammond your victim?" "You may tease me if you like," replied Grace with dignity, "but some day you'll acknowledge that I was right." "All right, girlie," smiled her father.
So sincere was her interest that Jerry felt as though she was suddenly surrounded by a wealth of friendship. Patricia seemed to know everyone else they were nearly all Girl Scouts in her troop; she introduced Jerry to so many girls that poor Jerry could not remember a single name. Ginny Cox, spying Jerry from across the room, bolted to her. "You're going to sign up for basketball, aren't you?
And now it was the Friday before the much-heralded basketball game which was to be played between the sophomores and the freshmen, and the merits and shortcomings of the respective organizations were being eagerly discussed throughout the school. The game was to be called at half-past two o'clock on Saturday afternoon, and from all accounts there was to be no lack of spectators.
"Now, remember to treat that ankle well if you want to appear again in the basketball arena." "Grace," said Anne, after the doctor had gone. "You know how it happened, don't you?" "Yes," answered Grace, after a little hesitation. "I do." "What are you going to do about it?" asked Anne. "I don't know," said Grace. "I am not sure it was intentional."
Keeping up with the times, as you call it, has made my son speak a language entirely unintelligible to my ear, and has made my daughter an exponent of muscular exercises of which I cannot approve." "Pshaw!" said her husband, easily. "Basketball, and running, and rowing, and the exercise she gets at that gymnasium, aren't going to hurt Mother Wit." "There you go!" exclaimed his wife.
In spite of rehearsals, Grace Harlowe's team found time for a few basketball games, and whipped the senior team twice in succession, much to the disgust of Captain Julia Crosby, who threatened to go into deep mourning over what she called "her dead and gone team."
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