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قراءة كتاب The Girls of Central High at Basketball; Or, The Great Gymnasium Mystery
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The Girls of Central High at Basketball; Or, The Great Gymnasium Mystery
THE BALL ROSE AND FLEW DIRECTLY AT THE BASKET.
The Girls of Central High at Basketball
Gertrude W. Morrison
1914
CONTENTS:
- CHAPTER I—HESTER IS MIFFED
- CHAPTER II—THE KERNEL IN THE ATHLETIC NUT
- CHAPTER III—JOHNNY DOYLE
- CHAPTER IV—“THERE’S GOOD STUFF IN THAT GIRL”
- CHAPTER V—HESTER AT HOME
- CHAPTER VI—THE FIRST GAME
- CHAPTER VII—THE SECOND HALF
- CHAPTER VIII—THE ROUND ROBIN
- CHAPTER IX—ANOTHER RAID
- CHAPTER X—MOTHER WIT AND THE GRAY MARE
- CHAPTER XI—HEBE POCOCK
- CHAPTER XII—“OUT OF IT”
- CHAPTER XIII—THE WIND VEERS
- CHAPTER XIV—RACING THE FLAMES
- CHAPTER XV—THE KEYPORT GAME
- CHAPTER XVI—UPHILL WORK FOR THE TEAM
- CHAPTER XVII—HEBE POCOCK IN TROUBLE
- CHAPTER XVIII—MOTHER WIT TO THE RESCUE
- CHAPTER XIX—AT LUMBERPORT
- CHAPTER XX—WINNING ALL ALONG THE LINE
- CHAPTER XXI—WHAT HESTER DID
- CHAPTER XXII—WHAT MR. BILLSON COULD TELL
- CHAPTER XXIII—CLIMBING UP
- CHAPTER XXIV—HESTER WINS
- CHAPTER XXV—THE MYSTERY EXPLAINED
CHAPTER I—HESTER IS MIFFED
The referee’s whistle sounded sharply, and the eighteen girls of Central High engaged in playing basketball, as well as an equal number strung along the side lines, stopped instantly and turned their eyes on Mrs. Case, the physical instructor.
“Hester Grimes! you are deliberately delaying the game. I have reprimanded you twice. The third time I will take you out of the team for the week——”
“I didn’t, either!” cried the person addressed, a rather heavily built girl for her age, with a sturdy body and long arms—well developed in a muscular way, but without much grace. She had very high color, too, and at the present moment her natural ruddiness was heightened by anger.
“You are breaking another rule of the game by directly addressing the referee,” said Mrs. Case, 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 ground 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 umpires, judges, timekeepers, scorers, linesmen and coaches. This shifting occupied only a few seconds, and it put the entire thirty-six girls into the game, shift and shift about. It was in September, 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 greatest truth that the physical instructor had tried to