Salt Lake Telegram | 1908-01-28 | Page 4 | Girls Have to Train for Basketball Team at Marshall

GIRLS HAVE TO TRAIN FOR BASKETBALL TEAM AT MARSHALL MARSHALL Mich 1 Jan Tan UNo S.-UNo No cand candy no peanuts not even en chewin chewing gum no fellows later than 9 0 o'clock clock in in bed gum cd at no pie pic cake or ice cream Ho How woud would d you like to be bo Ii a girl Airl and antI have those restrictions placed upon you f I The words quoted arc those of Coach Runyon of the tho Marshall ar hi high h school schoolgirls schoolgirls' girls girls' basketball ll team t td 5 the members of his squad whom ho has or ordered ered into training And what's more these orders or or- ders dome WI will 1 be he obeyed to the letter Marshall hi high h has hag had two championship champion ship teams fI during the tho past two years and they have ha trained as strictly aut and andas and as strenuously as any my college football team ever o did cHiL Thc They have o their workout workout work work- out every o afternoon in tho the gymnasium and the they go fo homo home and tackle one of those bi big juicy steaks after which they get their lessons and go to bed at at without fail faiL When Coach Runyon started this tern he was lau laughed hed at and made fun un of but ut when Marshall bi high h came home borne from Traverse City with the state championship in ufo 1903 5 and havin having won on the game because their endurance was greater than that of the Traverse City maidens 1000 pulled puller the time girls from the station through h tho the main street in a band wn wagon OD amidst the firing firing fir fir- in ing of skyrockets and ana shooting of guns I and the tho biggest est demonstration tion ever made in iu mu Marshall I Since tb hen n Mr r. r Runyon has told the girls to train tho they have c trained and that isn't all Thero There are ore eighteen other young young- ladies who want to make the first team and they are training too on their own hook They Titer comprise the second and the tho A and B teams The They know that if the they ever r make the tho team they the will have to do as the first team I girls do Diet study and exercise are aro the three thre things thing's t the e coach insists upon and tho the girls know v that he is right about It It When asked if it pays pas Captain Wil Williams liams who will lead tend the team this car said Pa Pay Pal Of course it pays Why Wily anu an live girl il that has played basketball ll will tell you that you OU cant can't really play the game ame unless you have got ot down to good hard training I enjoy enjo it almost as much as ha s the game arne and aDd then thea when I 1 get et into the thc big biJ james games after we wo have 0 got ot into condition it just seems as if 1 I could play two sixty minute halves