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Howard gym to hit that fascinating 11bird". back and forth over a net. It sounds sily but it, isn't.- The gaine is caîled Badminton. It is one of the mnost exciting and-divertinig gamnes ever in- vented.' We Must -«plain for the benefit -of any humiane society .miembers that the *"birds" 'are flot alive.; .A, bird is dead to begin with, and more dead ýafter enthusiasts John Borncamp and Fred Russell get through playing a gaine. The réal mmne for this oh> ect is shuttlecock which is defined as a, kid leather covered cork semisphere in. the fat -end of which. are set fourteen to sixteen f eathers circularly..., If you haven't tried this game of batting the bird, around corne over to the Howard gym on Monday evening at 8 o'clock 'or Pridgy at. 7 In order to help pay. for mnore. dead birds the Playground and Recreation board iiàs been charging a small fee for each evening's play. BASKETBALL LEA GUES GIRLS' LEAGUE, Thie irst round of tie Gitls' Basket- It>uII, L nruary 7 £0 Team Win Lose Pet. Northshores........... .... 1 .900 TNT...................... 8 2 .800 Subui'bans................. 7 3 .700 Aces ....... ................2 8 .200 "A".LEAGUE With the finish of the third>,week,,of playing in the second round of the Men's "A",league tournament, -Nelson, Laun- dry was still in the top position. Close bebind. themn was the Hoffmnann Florist squad,- holding down second place.. The Red Horses, inspired by the play- ingof their right forward, Harry Em- rick, played their best gaine of the year.. Several times the score was in their favor over the strong Hoffmann Florist five, but in the. closing seconds -the fiower boys droppeëd in a basket to win tbe, game 30-29. A more one-sided contest occurred, as the C. Y. O. boys walked away witb a 60 to 29:win over the Wilmette Bicycle Shop. BobMeter of'the Cé. Y. O. made 28 points. His teammna te, John O'Neil, accounted for 22. John Waidner and Bob (Granny) Ellis were the stars of the Wilmette Battery hot shots. Their 12 and Il points, respectively, contributed niuch to their winning f romn the Locust Farin Products quintet, 41 to 26. Tleani scores and standings follow: C. Y. O. 60 Wilmette Bicycle F'G FT TP Shop 29 So'Neil,f il O 22 . FG FT TP I.Meter,f 14 0 28 Versinof 2 V.Mýeter-,c 1 1 3 Krainerf 3 0 6ý Kraý.fth'f'r,g 1 1 3 Hoffrnan,c 6 () 12 Hlarrisom,g 2 0 4 Versing,g 1 .0 2 Hall,g 1 1i * losing one. The TNT team finished in 'WIImjette Battpry Locust Fi second place with eight games won and 41 Produets one lost, while the Suburbans placedEIif FG FT T P FG i thir wih seen ictriesandthre Efisj 5 1 il Brammer,f1 thid it sve. îctris ndtheeKlunder,,f4 0 8 1H.Johnson,f4 ,de feats. Boi-ncatrp,c I1O0 2 B.Johnson,c5 The second round starts immediatelyr 1Kaufmatn,g 4 0 8 Schinler,g 0 with the Northshores, TNT, Suburbans, W'aidner,g 4 4 12 Steffens,g i Reee-eo. Jones and Aces composing the league. At the Scoer-orac Ngar close of the second round, a champion %vill be declared by a play-off game bc- Hoffilanu Florist 30 Red 'Hforxet winerof hefirt oun pt-FG FT TP ÉFG tweeîî the wne ftefrtrudpt Millerf 4 1 9 P.Emrick,f2 ted against the winner of the second. Canîpbell,f 0 2 2 H.Emri.kf7 .8 3 13 oý 0 es 9 PT TP 2 04 7 0 14 Herb;on,c 3 .0 6 Moore,c 3 0 6 Slayton,g 1 0 2 Doose,g O 1 1 Huck,g 5 1,.11 Hayes,g 2, 0 4 Referee-Oeo. Jones Scorer-D. Nygaard "A" league team standings, second noon tap dancing class at the Wil- mette Conimunity Center held a St. Valentine's party at the Center Sat- urday afternoon, February 15. Lor- raine Cross, Thelma Bondy, Carol Anderson, Maurine May, Virginia Bondy, and Betty Anderson served on' the c 1ommittee ini charge of the aiffair. The programn. consisted of a tap dance by Doris Schwall and Dorothy Grass mann. Roberta Kelly and "Bobsie" ' Kelly sang while Thelma Bondy played the guitar. A comed Y, "Aunt Marge Pays. This Time," was* given, by Maurine May, Lorraine Cross, Thelma.and Virginia Bondyý. Carol Anerson gave a piano solo. Several .gaines were playedand prizes- awarded * Maurine May won the prize for the ."Poison" gaine, Darlene Foley, the prize for the "Bird, Beast and' Fish". gamne, and Dorothy Fischer won the Bean B3ag Guessing gamne. The hall was, attractive ly dec- orated with red and. white hearts. Refreshments were served. they needed more help to put their'teain on top ini the scoring. The Terriers kept the Idono ini their last place berth by beating thein 22 to 15. This bas been a Jonali rouind for the Idono outfit, for they don't seetnito be able to get going. The high scorers for the wveek were Wilbert Dalil wbo scored 18 points, and Earl Gray who scored 19 points for the Wacker A.C. who won f rom the Whit.e Streaks, 47 to 3. * )iple Leass26 Flashes. 2 FG FT TP . GFT TP Normoylej 1, 0 2 Bensonf O 0 O Leary,f 2 1 5 Sainuelson,f 4 1 9 Scheibel,c 1 0 2 carney,eý 4 3 il Hahn,c 4 1 9 Hull,g i 0 2 Kolb,g 4 O 8 Brown,g 0O0O.O Schenk,g 0O0O O DeVinhtyg 1 'o. Referee-Cy. Nelson Scorer-Roland Gooch FG PT TP B. Sirnons, f 5 2 12 MeFarren, f 2 "0 4 Reagan,c O 0 0 Self ert, g 3 0 6 Shabino, g 2 1 3 - Frh eGFTTP1 ChaeFG PTO 8 CGcre,t4 O0 Badger, c O 0 O Mouldng, g 2 1 5 .Anderson, g o O 0 Boling 9 0 O O IThe Wilrnette Community. Center has been a very busy place this week with'the added activities which were announced last week, according to Daniel M. Davis, director of recrea- tion. The ping pong tables have been in constant use from early- afternoon until the Center closes. A total of 295, aduits. and clîdren played, ping pong last week. The> tap and social.,danciùg_ classes cantinue to be very popular. Nearly three hundred attenided the aftern.oon, and evenin g tap dancing, classes, last week and over one hundred, attended the social. dancing. classes of Wed- nesda'y and Friday niglits., The at- tendance. at the, activities at the Center for the week Nwas over 700. The sewing class is under the di- rection of. a very ca pable instructor and it is. hoped the women Who wishi assistance in repairing, remodeling or making, in'ew clothes> will register for the classes. either byý coîning to the Center or calling the recrea'- tion -offie' Wilxnette 468. The sew~- ing classes are held 'Mondav and Wednesday frorn 7 to 10 P. 'M.; Tues- da.y, 10 to 12 noon, and Friday, 3 to, ý 4 P. M. Saturd4y niglit is openi bouse f rom 7 to 10 P. M. for adults for dancing, bridge and card gaines. The recreation board is assisted by the Works Progress Administration in this work. *ground and' Recreation board "D," Bas- ketball league. jack Harvey let go with sonie high-powe'red .scoring and ac- çountecl for 15 points for the Eagles, and his teamimate, Williamn Cloud, rang Up 10 points. This win puts the Eagles another gaine ini front in the tearn stand- 1 igS. The Willies, who share secon .d place honlors with St. John's beat the Tigers 44 to 7. Chas. Gregory of the Willies won, high scoring, hon ors with the 16. îpoints lie scored-for his teain. The Nit Wits held on to their place at the-end of the.'standings when they thers, 45 to 19. WIlies 44 Tigers~ FG FT TPFG ;T Ti, Geppert, f 4 2 10 Molter, f .0 11 Gregory, f 8 0 16 Hil1l, f 0 1 i Neukranz, e 0 0 0 Cordts, e 0 i 1 Gregory, g 4 1 9 Oasierline, g 0 0 o Halliwel. g 4 1 9 Kolb, g 2 0 4 Suburbanus 21 Ib W'r f3, -1 21 ,D. uiWr 'e0.0O PblUAps, f O 0 0 Auoaog 0 0 0 2IIUL 7+UDLS e UU ana £a ireeirows YJa. - -- -- - ... -. ý.Soe-oadGo ee RlggIe total of 11 points. Freshmen... ...... 2 1 .667 * ecorer-~ln oc Th av heIpwrhTerriers ............. 2 2 .500 Ree Re~4hard Huek Maybury The reshmen gv heWwr h rhte Streaks ... 1 3 .250 "D'Ieg Ta Notibrs~ League their first defeat of the round piashes.... ......... 1 3 .250 "> eru emStanding IM PT TP 27 to 21. Bert Simons of the Freshnen. oo...... 00 Team Winbruay 18 Nord, f 6 2 14 helped, materially in his team's success Magesn.L.... 6t Whitehill, f 830 6 by making 5 baskets and a pair of fre~e "D" LEAGUE St John~'s........... 4 2 Clifford, g 0 O 0 tlirows for a total of 12 points. Bob The St. John's team suffered their Y4lites -ý..... ..4 2 Schr'mg'r,g O0OO0 0her........2 K.omeIO, g 0 o o Cochrane and Dan Greer of the ]F.. second deeto h eson we teTgers............... 1 wort Legue adisan 4 bskes bu Ealestook them 41 to 23 in the Play- Nft wits ..... Pet. 1.000 .667 .667 .400 .161 .000