CHAPTER XXX
BASKET BALL
With the opening of the basket-ball season the girls are all wide-awake, interested, and eager to enter the teams; there is an exciting dash and life about the game which renders it very fascinating.
If you can organize a set of ten players and divide the
Cost of an Outfit
among the girls, each contributing an equal portion, the individual expense need not be exorbitant.
The price of a good basket ball is four dollars, and a pair of goal baskets the same amount, making in all eight dollars, just eighty cents each, a small amount when compared with the fun, health, and general benefit to be derived from the sport. The expense will be even less if shared by the officials.
It is optional whether you play indoors or out of doors; the game is suited to either place. The size of a
Playing Ground
varies in different localities, being regulated according to available space, but it must not exceed 3,500 square feet.