Warren (Ohio) Lodge Has Famous Girls Basket Ball Team

Warren (Ohio) Lodge, No. 295, has something to be proud of this year, something that perhaps no other Lodge can boast of. This is a girls basket ball team that ranks with the best in the United States and Canada. The team, organized and managed by the members of Warren Lodge, has achieved such notable success and has so many important victories to its credit that its fame has won great prestige for the Lodge.

One of Its closest contests was the opening game of the season against the national champions, the Smith McDonald team of Youngstown, Ohio. The Elks management was criticized severely for arranging such a game so early in the season, but when the final returns came in the Elks team was found to be on the heavy end of a 17 to 16 score and the national champions were defeated. In that game the team showed exceptional ability considering it was the first contest of the season. As the season progressed the girls showed great improvement and challenges were issued to eastern and western teams, and negotiations started for a series of games with the London, Ont., Shamrocks and the Edmonton, Alberta, Commercial Grads, holders of the International Girls' Basketball Championship and possessors of the Underwood Trophy. One of the big feats of the team occurred when Ihe girls played against the Tut and Bud Tailors, a men's team. The final score was 36 to 32 in favor of the men. This was the first time in this section of Ohio that a girls' team encountered a men's team. The score shows how well the girls played.

During the past year the members of Warren Lodge have completely remodeled their Home which was formerly the home of J. W. and W. D. Packard, the founders of the Packard automobile. They now have a well arranged Lodge room on the third floor, secretary's office and living quarters and the home of the matron on the second floor, large club rooms, enlarged dining-room and modem kitchen on the first floor, and committee, lounging and club rooms in the basement. In the rear of the Home, a large two story brick barn as been remodeled to become the home of the three troops of Boy Scouts fostered by this Lodge. Warren Lodge is a pioneer in the Boy Scout movement, having been, perhaps, the first Lodge to organize a troop of Boy Scouts. At present the Lodge is supporting Troops 17, 22 and 25, and the boys are under the personal supervision of a member of Warren Lodge.

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