Enid Walker has been telling Phyllis Chambers, and Phyllis won't put my name down for the hockey final.
During an interval in the hockey practice that afternoon, Muriel found an opportunity to speak to her cousin.
And everyone seems to have brought a hockey stick.
Here girls of ages varying from thirteen to eighteen were assembled, comparing holiday experiences, examining each other's tennis rackets or hockey sticks, passing jokes, or eagerly enquiring for news on various class topics.
It was rather a lonely part of the garden; most of the girls had run from the hockey field straight into the house, and the gardener was at that moment partaking of tea in the kitchen.
You see, we always have such fun at gymnastics, and of course we love hockey and cricket.
She had not been specially good at hockey during the winter, and was only a moderate tennis player, so it was pleasant to find one game in which she had a chance of excelling, and of gaining credit for her team as well as for herself.
It won't be all hockey and gymnasium, I can tell you.
For a distance of ten or twenty miles round folks come on Sunday to play hockey and have tea.
This world is an arena with a slippery sheet of ice, And all have skates and hockey sticks and enter without price.
But she found Florence very quiet and unresponsive, and gradually the excitement of the new class in figure-skating and the inter-form and house hockey matches absorbed her attention.
So the absorbing topic of Queen's new hockey coach being exhausted for the time being, "Got any good stuff for the play in your cubicles, Cathy?
As she said it, she took a chance whack at the puck with her hockey stick and sent it spinning.
At three o'clock every one was ready to start, the girls armed with skates and hockey sticks.
Zip," sang the puck, darting here and there, in obedience to the click, click of the busy hockey sticks.
And he rubbed the lump one of the hockey sticks had raised over his left ear.
Reaching the building, they went inside and procured some old hockey sticks that chanced to be handy.
Throwing the sailcloth aside Pepper and Andy leaped to their feet, brandishing the hockey sticks over their heads.
Accordingly they avoided the Woods as if it were plague stricken and industriously played hockey every afternoon on Deal Great Pond, which was fully two miles away.
There were to be no more games, except indoor baseball and fives, until the hockey season which rarely set in before the Christmas holidays.
The Deal boys had capital hockey grounds, one on Deal Water which lay at the foot of the hill between the school and Monday Port; and the other on Beaver Pond, under the lee of Lovel’s Woods which though smaller usually froze earlier.
As young Hotspur could not go trotting round and round the pond all day, John at last drove him home, and then Frank proposed a game of hockey on the ice.
A person must know how to balance himself well to play hockey on skates, otherwise, after having struck the ball, he is very likely to allow his stick to swing round, and to bring him over.
That game of hockey caused a great deal of ill-feeling among the less generous and most ill-disposed of the big fellows towards the younger ones who had so thoroughly beaten them.
We were very particular at Grafton Hall about our hockey balls.
Hockey was one of these, and consequently it was not often played, except when a large number could join in it together.
A great game of hockey was to be played one Saturday afternoon in November.
Never was a game at hockey at our school more hotly contested.
The morrow came, and a great game ofhockey was the absorbing amusement of the day; even young Hotspur and the sleigh failed to attract so much interest.
The scratch team consisted of some fine players in addition, boys who were swift on the wing and able with their hockey sticks.
Nick Lang on the ice during that intermission for rest in the hockey match; and when he, Hugh, fancied Leon was entreating his former pal to do something which Nick refused to entertain.
There are some mighty clever hockey players in and out of the high school, who are not on our Seven.
Fortunately, Allandale and its sister town had quite a quota of former college players and gentlemen who had been members of famous hockey clubs in Canada and elsewhere when younger.
The greathockey game with Belleville High was to take place in the neighboring town, as Captain Kramer (known far and wide simply as "O.
But in all the days we've practiced our hockey work Nick hasn't once joined the scrub team we've fought against.
Which will be a fine thing for our hockey try-out with the scratch Seven, eh, Thad?
In all the general principles, hockey bears a great resemblance to foot-ball, the game consisting in driving a ball through a goal.
In the afternoon there is hockey on horseback, or volunteer drill, with our gallant adjutant putting us through our evolutions.
All the young folk were soon on the ice, the boys starting a hockey game at the far end, and the girls circling around in pairs at the end nearest to the fire.
The boys were getting so much sport out of ice hockey that--as the league approved of that form of exercise--the physical instructor introduced it on the girls' athletic field.
Orchards, in the glory of their spring bloom, made a pink background for the white chimneys and the grey-slated roof; a smooth tennis lawn with four courts faced the front, and in a field adjoining the river were some hockey goals.
Mrs. Franklin, armed with a poker, came hurrying up, followed closely by Miss Andrews, grasping a hockey stick.
He is a real artist, but it is work that one sees rather a deal of this season, whereas the hockey dance is like nothing else to be found.
The lovely bit of hockey which James Barton gives is for me far more distinguished than all the rest of his work in the Winter Garden Revue.
But before that final contest was decided Ferry Hill and Hammond had again met on the ice and tried conclusions, and although there was no hockey in this contest it was quite as exciting while it lasted.
He had played hockey a good deal and had seen many of the college and school games, and he had been surprised to learn that Ferry Hill had never had a team.
This meeting has been called by a few of us who want to get up a hockey team.
That was the beginning of the Ferry Hill School Hockey Association, which still flourishes and has to its credit several notable victories.
But they cheered, and Hammond answered it; and the hockey season had ended with a defeat for Ferry Hill.
Hockey sticks waved in air as the players skated back to their places.
Hockey took hold of the school with a vim, and those who were not entitled to use the rink secured sticks and pucks and went at it on the river.
A challenge was drawn up and delivered to Hammond Academy, was accepted and three games were arranged to settle the ice hockey supremacy.
That afternoon the hockeyteam got down to real business.
Changing as quickly as she could, Rhoda ran out to the hockey ground, to find the captain in a ferment.
Kitty Fletcher, who was still smarting over a hockey match in which Newington Green had triumphed.
Kitty, equally-well prepared, was expecting ample scope for her energies, and hoping to find adventures that would put even hockey in the shade.
One afternoon, just as everyone was off for a practice, she could not find her hockey shoes.
By increased efforts Kitty hoped that before the hockey season was over they might be able to win at least one match, and show that St. Cyprian's could take its place in athletics on a footing with other schools in the Alliance.
The Kirkton High School, averaging six hundred to their two hundred, by its very numbers offered a good pick of champions for hockey teams or tennis tournaments.
Kitty Fletcher and Edna Carson were zealous in looking after the Games department, and spurred on the girls to come to hockey practices.
Rhoda Somerville took to hockey like a duck to water, and promised under Kitty's tuition to become a most valuable asset to the team.
She would visibly nudge her companions if Rhoda faltered in answering a question, thereby making her more nervous, and would come out with pointed remarks about girls whose brains ran to hockey instead of "maths.
She impressed upon Edna Carson, who would succeed her in office, the mission of supremacy in the hockey field, urging her to spare no efforts to make the team realize its responsibilities.
One student immediately drew a considerable check for the salary fund, another, who had been planning to give a hockey rink, said he would think things over.
I lost it in the hockey field, and did not find it for three days, and I dared not tell Chrissie all that time, for fear she might be offended.
Marjorie looked more intently, and could distinguish a figure in hockey jersey and tam-o'-shanter coming along behind the bushes.
The fourth hockey afternoon was one of those lovely spring days when nature seems to beckon one out of doors into the sunshine.
There was a hockey match that afternoon between the second and third teams, and all the school was making its way in the direction of the playing-fields.
There were capital pictures of the school, the cricket eleven, the hockey team, the quadrangle in the snow, the gardening assistants, and the tennis champions.
This is the best medicine for gouty pain--not for hurt caused by a hockey stick).
Earlier the same evening we had been playing a friendly Hockey match, and one of the players, let us call him Ram Gholam, had been slightly hurt.
They want avenues of self-expression, and in lacrosse and hockey they find it.
Oh, sometimes we said a good deal worse than that on the hockey ground, or in the heat of an argument.
We also got hockey sticks and bastinadoed their legs for their souls' good to the great marvel of the natives.
It will be so jolly when we begin hockey on half-holidays!
It will be lovely to learn hockey and lacrosse; I've never played either before.
They seem mostly cookery and wood-carving, varied by hockey and tennis.
A hockey match was played in the afternoon, which caused such excitement that the affair of the clock was forgotten for the time being; but it returned only too forcibly to the girls' minds, as they walked in to evening preparation.
Every afternoon, when the weather allowed, the girls played hockey to keep themselves warm, and Aldred began to grow interested in the game, though she had not yet secured the proficiency that her ambition would have wished.
They concealed their spoils carefully in a cupboard under the stairs, where hockey sticks, tennis rackets, and other possessions were generally kept.
It's booked already for Aldred Laurence, and so is the tennis championship, and anything that's first and foremost in the way of hockey and lacrosse.
I play a little baseball and some tennis and a bit of hockey and can swing a golf stick, but beyond that I don't participate in athletics.
If he went in for football he'd have to give up either baseball, hockey or tennis.
As the winter wore away, I repeatedly saw him in Balliol hockey squashes, chasing the ball about with the agility of a terrier pup.
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