The Girls of Central High at Basketball: or, The Great Gymnasium Mystery
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Morrison Gertrude W.. The Girls of Central High at Basketball: or, The Great Gymnasium Mystery
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
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The Girls’ Branch Athletic League of Central High had been in existence only a few months. Gymnasium work, folk dancing, rowing and swimming, walking and some field sports had been carried to a certain point under the supervision of instructors engaged by Centerport’s Board of Education before the organization of the girls themselves into an association which, with other school clubs, held competitions in all these, and other, athletics for trophies and prizes.
Centerport, a lively and wealthy inland city located on the shore of Lake Luna, boasted three high schools – the East and West Highs, and the newer and large Central High, which was built in “the Hill” section of the town, the best residential district, on an eminence overlooking the lake and flanked on either side and landward, as well, by the business portions of the city. The finest estates of the Hill district sloped down to the shore of the lake.
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