hese Girls

Fight to Win

Watch—in This Dramatic. Article—the Edmonton Grads in Their Most

Exciting Encounter and Then You Will No Longer Wonder Why These

Feminine Basketball Players Hold a Championship Reeord Never Equaled

by HAROLD F. CRUICKSHANK

READING TIME @ 12 MINUTES 20 SECONDS

HE whistle! They’re off! The Edmonton Commer-

cial Grads—World’s Champions of All Champions in
the history of competitive sports—sweep down the floor
like a rippling chain of red lightning. And a crowd of
thousands of fans bulges the Arena with roar after
roar.
These nimble-footed sharpshooters are opposed by one
of the most brilliant aggregations in basketball—the

Tulsa, Oklahoma, Stenographers, the cream of all sharp-
shooters south of the international border.

The Grads are fighting hard, with all their skill, speed,
and determination. They want this game. It is the third
in a best-three-out-of-five series for the international title
and the Underwood trophy. The Grads want it out of a
sheer love of good, clean sport and out of loyalty to that
master mind, their coach, J. Percy Page.

 

The Grads and their coach. Left to right, standing: Helen Stone, Gladys Fry, Mr. Page, Noel MacDonald, Edith Stone.
Kneeling: Mabel Munton, Evelyn Coulson, Doris Neale, Margaret MacBurney (captain), Babe Belanger, Jessie Innes.

LIBERTY FOR DECEMBER 29, 1934

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