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 mom