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Look Back: Girls basketball, indoor baseball changes sports

1919-20 PHS Girls Basketball team. Listed as being part of the 1920 basketball team were: Sarah Penn, Bertha Butler, Geneva Gainer, Francis Fischer and Virginia Broughton. (Photo from The Parkersburg High School Quill, June 1920)

The Girls’ Basketball Team

A new phase in the Athletics of the High School is the organizing of a Girls’ Basket Ball team. A series of games is to be played between teams of the four classes. At present there are several teams from each class. From these the first and second class teams will be selected.

The girls have shown a great interest in the work and about 30 or 40 turn out for practice every night. Basket work and passing are progressing satisfactorily. Girls’ rules are used.

From The Quill

November 1913

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Girls’ Team Of The High School Will Play Spencer At High School Gym On Next Saturday Evening

The Girls High School basketball team has been practicing each evening since they administered the stinging defeat of the New Martinsville High School team on last Friday evening at the high school gym.

The entire game will be played according to the boys’ rules and for this reason it is expected that it will be more interesting than the splendid exhibition given here before. The local girls’ quintet defeated the Spencer girls at Spencer a few weeks ago, and the visitors will come here intent on revenge. The local girls’ team has a big chance for the girls’ state championship.

Parkersburg Sentinel

Jan. 24, 1918

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In the past few years, people and the school are taking much more interest in Girl’s Athletics. The boys, however, have always received more recognition and probably always will. There are many activities outside the routine “gym” work, as field hockey, baseball, basketball and track.

In the fall, when school first begins, hockey teams from the different classes are organized, then these teams play for the championship.

Baseball is an indoor sport, whose time comes between hockey and basketball. However, the baseball is more participated in by the “gym” classes, than to the class teams.

Then comes basketball the most important of all. In the last four years people have come to like and enjoy this sport more and more.

The first team is composed of the following girls: Genevieve Barber, right forward; Margaret Kelly, center; Bernadine Ruth, left forward; Elizabeth Weaver, right guard; Clarice Hodge, left guard.

From The Quill

January 1921

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Indoor Baseball

Vic Garretson’s team and Blakeslee White’s Aggregation Won Opening Games.

The opening game in the Y.M.C.A. indoor baseball league recently organized were played Friday evening. The Braves won from the Pirates by the score of 31 to 23. Blakeslee White captains the Braves and B.M. Whaley the Pirates. The Whaleyites were beaten in the last inning when the Braves scored thirteen runs.

Vic Garretson’s team, the Giants, defeated the Cubs, captained by Robert Virgin, by the score of 23 to 18. The business men gave the youngsters’ a big surprise, playing them off their feet.

Parkersburg Sentinel

March 18, 1916

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