Care was taken to choose chiefly games that any Chinese girls could play without elaborate equipment or instruction. The wonderful part of it all was that the minute the girls began on games the immense audience watching them was entirely forgotten in the excitement of the sport. They threw themselves into the contests, cheered on winners, admonished the tardy, and danced up and down at' exciting moments in complete unconsciousness, of the on-lookers.
Tas Bur a Becinnine.-
What all this meant and will mean to the girls of China it is hard to estimate. What new ideas. it foreed home to the audience is even more difficult to imagine. The emancipation brought by the Play Spirit, the quickening of physical vigour, the broadening of mental horizons, the incentive to healthful living, these are joyous things to contemplate. Miss Vera Barger, principal of the School of Physical Training, says this is only the beginning, the first expression of a deep interest in physical education which is destined to play a large part in the development of Chinese women.
The following schools and organizations were represented St, Mary's, 30; E. Koh, 70, Wa Bung, 200; Chinese Physical Training School, 32; McTyiere, 24; Bridgman, 40; I. Juin, 60; Zung Toong, 25; Zing Tseu, 40; 'Mary Farnham, 60; Eliza Yates, 50; Van Tsuh, 60; Chi Suh, 40; Ming Lih, 60; Jung' Nyih, 60; Shung Teh, 24; ©.4. Normal School Physical Training, 28; China General Edison Compony 20.
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