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when it came to lifting the ball to and through a basket. Some one who overheard called them the Jumping-Jacks and the name stuck till the girls considered it
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enough to be adopted. The
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was a large one, with a number of girls who played nearly as well as those on what was considered the
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There were a few jealousies to be handled, as Betty well knew. How she had made the position of captain she scarcely knew yet. Carolyn told her that she was the
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as she said her father called it in politics.
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Sort of a compromise?
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Yes. Everybody knew you weren't after it, and there was such a mess this time, sorting out for the first and second team. So you're it. Now see that we beat everybody. I'm only playing basketball on your account, Betty.
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Don't you really like it?
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Yes, but I don't enjoy a big contest. I'll do my best, though, to make my part of the second team so good that I'll get called in to help out the first squad.
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Good for you. If I have anything to say, you'll get a chance to play with me!
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It sometimes saves the day Betty, said Kathryn.
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Do you remember last year how Freddy Fisher had a chance to put the ball through that basket from 'way across the floor! We certainly have missed Freddy this year, haven't we? But Ted Dorrance is playing basketball and he's good.
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Is that so? He wasn't on the football squad.
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No. His mother draws a line on football and said she'd take him out of school, or send him away somewhere to school if he played. But he's grand in basketball. Didn't you see that write-up of him in the _Roar_ last week?
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I missed getting that number, Kathryn. Have you a copy?
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Yes. I'll show it to you.
human
What is his speciality?
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Well, in the first game he made some under the basket shots that were just in time to make the score. It beat the other team. It's a shame you didn't see the account of the game. It's all in the paper.
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All I knew was that we beat, said Betty.
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I didn't even see the evening paper at home. That was the night I was studying for a test and forgot everything else. It was my only chance, for we were doing things all day Saturday.
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Ted has a new girl, Betty, they say.
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Really--who?
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Oh, one of the junior girls that he is taking all around to the parties and everything. He had her out here at the school for the minstrel show the other night. That was real funny. Did you go?
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No. I can't go to everything and I just _have_ to go to the musical things. Mother and I went to the Symphony Concert the last time.
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It's funny Chet didn't ask you. He's been hanging around so much of late, Betty.