Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 264, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1917 — WESTERN GIRL IS A GREAT ATHLETE [ARTICLE]

WESTERN GIRL IS A GREAT ATHLETE

Qualified to Compete for AllRqur(T Honors. WIZARD AT PLAY.Nfi TENNIS Also Stars at Baseball, Basket Bail, Hockey and Football —&jrformances in Many Lines Brand Her as Marvel. On the Pacific coast they say that Miss Mayme McDonald ts the greatest woman athlete In the United States. That is some title; still a glance at the record of she young woman leads cftie to believe that she has an excellent claim to the honor. Miss McDonald is a student at the University of Washington, and her 'performance in a dozen branches of sport brand her as an athletic marvel. Tipping the scale's at a bare 115 pounds, she has established herself as the best all-round girl athlete ever developed in the Northwest, i. Won Tennis Finals. The Seattle tniss won the finals of the Northwest tennis championships at Tacoma recently, and yet tennis is but a small part of the athletic life of the university champion. Miss McDonald has yet to try her skill at any sport in which she cannot shatter some kind of a record. She is a wizard at the net game, but also stars at baseball, basketball, hockey, track and — she admitted rather bashfully—footbait Miss McDonald holds ’so many records at the University of (Washington that she does not remember them all. She started In to win “W’s” in her freshman year, and has been doing it ever since. She was the first freshman to win a numeral and started in breaking records riiht and left before advancing to her second year. The Seattle girl can take a regulation league baseball and with a regular Hank Gowdy windup can send the horseshoe on a Journey of some 190 feet. Recently she donned her track togs and, while Washington Coach VanderVeerheld the watch, she stepped off 100 yards in 12 seconds flat. She hung up a mark in the 50ynrd hnrdlea nf seconds: can send the eight-pound shot 31 feet, and throw the javelin 85 yards. Football Has No Terrors. Miss McDonald can take a hockey stick and zigzag down the ice like Hobey Baker. She can shoot a ringer with the baskeetball five times out of ten, and hits .300 on the baseball team. She swims, dives, hunts and fishes. The football field has no terrors for this young Seattle girl, and she can boot the pigskin for a perfect spiral. “I began to play baseball and the rest of the things,” explains Miss McDonald, ‘‘when I was old enough to walk. 4 I took part in every kind of athletics with the youngsters on the back lots, and they came so natural with me that I just kept right on. I liked nothing better than a game of ball, a race or any kind of a match when I was a youngster, and I do not know but that I have the same opinion of sports now.” : :—-===■ —