Anna Head School - Nods and Becks Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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SPORTS 1

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IITERHIW THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE In January oT I865 sevenTeen year old Michael d Young and hrs broTher Charles TwenTy asked Their land lord Tor a Tew dollars wrTh whrch To sTarT a newspaper Mschael goT a TwenTy dollar gold piece and Trom Thus small Ioan The de Young broThers sTarTed whaT rn Trme be carne The San Francisco Chromcle Tor The pasT nsneTy years one oT The mosT successTul papers rn The WesT Charles and Mrchael were TalenTed and ambnhous young sTers Charles was already an experT prnnTer and Teleg rapher and Mrchael aT The Tume was bofh a senxor In grammar school and a sophomore rn hrgh school having decrded To clean boTh up aT once They secured a rob prrnTer Two sTands oT worn Type a baTTered redwood desk and some odds and ends oT newsprrnT From Thrs The TrrsT Issue of The Dally Dramahc Chromcle a Tour page Tablord appeared on January I7Th In one monTh The newspaper gaThered a clrculahon oT Two Thousand For a shorT Trme Mark Twann wroTe sgurbs and arTrcles an exchange Tor desk space and BreT I-IarTe Then a clerk aT The MrnT secreTly wroTe small arTucles Tor The pap r Michael de Young reIaTes In has prlvaTe noTes My broTher seT Type I used To seT up The Torms and work The pres We boTh drd The Toldrng and mallrng All Thus kepT expenses down The paper was drsTrabuTed Tree ThroughouT The crTy and :T was Tnnanced by The adver TnsernenTs :T carrred Such was The begrnnung oT The Dauly Dramahc Chromcle The years passed and Trnally The de Youngs goT Therr TheaTrlcal handball goang One day Two hundred pound MaTulda I-leron came To San Francrsco To play Camille aT Maguure s Opera House The Chromcle s Dramahc CrnTuc Trernenhere Johns wroTe abouT her perTormance Thar he was wrlllng To concede ThaT she was a greaT sTar buT be cause oT her saze Trgure and weughT :T was an mposrhon on an honesT reporTer To TIT her To The role oT Tragrle Ca mrlle Mass I-leron read The revnew and In her dresslng room she wepT and banged on The walls wrTh her TusTs ForTune oT crrcumsTance played wlTh The de Youngs The MeTropoInTan TheaTer The rrval oT Magurre s Opera I-louse and whose adverTrsung was conTrolled by The Chromcle had a manor Tire one nlghT The de Youngs wroTe ThaT whale Magunre was noT a True pyrornanuac he drd luke To see Trre laddues run wrTh The hose pumps Tom Magurre had Mrchael and Charles arresTed Tor label The people oT San Francrsco were already enloyrng The Teud and The lury broughT a ourck acquuTTal The de Youngs swung The Tlnal blow WuTh more oT Therr landlord s money They buulT a new opera house and evenTually ran Maguire ouT oT bus: ness IT was more Than The Trgh+ wrTh Magurre ThaT made The Chromcle an Those early years San Franclsco was a rlTy Thar luked a quarrel and loved a TughT and Tavored an aggressor Three monThs aTTer The newspaper began The de Young brofhers scooped The clTy so badly ThaT IT hurT Therr rrvals way down deep Newspapers rn The cnTy knew lrTTle abouT exTras and TurThermore They never used Them IT was on The mornlng oT Aprrl I5 I865 when Mnchael came saunTerang down The sTreeT To The Telegraph oTTuce aTTer The morning papers were ouT and Thelr shops were asleep I-le knew The manager oT The Telegraph oTTuce and he oTTen dropped rn To chaT The Chromcle could noT aTTord many dlspaTches buT The boys lrked To hear The Telegraph cluck Mrchael walked rnTo The oTTrce and Tound The manager very much excrTed The manager sald I-lave you heard The news7 No sard Mrchael Luncoln has been assassrnaTed sand The operaTor Machael de Young memoruzed The drspaTch wrThrn a Tew mrnuTes ran back To The oTTrce and wrThrn The hour had The news seT IH Type and had puT exTras ouT all over The cnTy The Chromcle was Tree Then buT some edlTrons broughT as much as a dollar Examnnahons now oT The Chronicles reporT and :Ts rlvals show ThaT The wordlng was aImosT exacT There were Three dnspaTches Trom WashrngTon and wlTh each one anoTher exTra was puT ouT The Chromcle carried a runnrng accounT oT The crTy s reachons and The de Youngs reporTed TlrsT hand The acTuons oT The mobs ATTer Three years oT publrshnng a weekly Tablond The de Youngs decided To make The DramaTIc Chromcle 1nTo a daily mornrng and evennng paper oT general cnrculahon On Tuesday mornrng SepTember I I868 The TursT Issue oT The Daily Mornmg ancl Evening Chromcle appeared The lead ed1ToraaI sTaTed We propose To publrsh whaT wall prove a noveITy In San Francisco lournalusm a bold br1ghT Tearless and Truly rndependenT newspaper The paper was now seven columns wrde and oT regular depTh The cmrcula Tron was sand To be elghT Thousand In The TrrsT monThs oT publucahon The Chromcle had rows wrTh Laurrng Prckerrng oT The Call BuIIeTIn concernrng The sTealung oT drspaTches The Chromcle Trnally seTTled ThaT AT The IasT munuTe They senT a laTe hour adverTusemenT copy over To The BuIIeTIn saying ThaT In Todays Issue oT The Chromcle us a descrlpTlon oT a prrze Trghf an whuch our lead :ng m1nrsTers are made To appear In The conTesT The Tore man pard no aTTenTron To :T seT IT In Type dropped :T rnTo The Torm and IT appeared In The T1rsT edrTuon oT The BuIIeTIn nexT day The BuIIeTIn s arTrcle senT everybody looking Tor a Chromcle AT Thus Trme I-Ienry George was rnanagrng edrTor and James Bowman was crTy edrTor oT The Chromcle On Sep Tember 6 I872 The Chromcle led The Tneld and became The TursT San Francisco newspaper To publish seven mornrngs a week Soon The resT oT The newspapers Tollowed suuT In Aprrl oT I87O The Chromcle ran an eduTorual agarnsT The proposal oT conhnurng The Federal Income Tax The edrTorla' sard nn parT A Federal Income Tax rs unlusT undemocrahc ullrberal unwrse and oppressive Machael and Charles de Young sTrove To rarse The curcu laT:on oTThe1r paper They announced a door To door cur culaTron drive and w1Thrn Three monThs They had doubled Therr crrculahon Thus was noT done w1ThouT a buT oT asTuTe psychology on The parT oT The broThers publrshrng The name and address oT every person who subscrrbed For TnTTeen cenTs one week s subscrrphon you could see your name In prunT AT The end oT I873 The de Young broThers announced ThaT They were doing a gross busrness oT halT a mrlluon dollars The San Francisco Chromcle was well on :Ts way To success now and some oT The ruTs In The proneer news paper were beang smooThed over The Chromcle has con Trnued To grow along wrTh The oTher newspapers and The cuTy oT San Francisco IT has accepTed The advances an and meT The probl ms oT The Treld oT gournalnsm and now Today The Chromcle calls lTselT The Vorce oT The WesT PI-lYl.LIS PORTER Third Prrze Upper School Essay ConTesT . .. ,. , - - e . , . .. .. . . 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l0lUER SCH00l SPORTS Every class has gymnasium for one period each day. Swimming in The pool is one of l'he lavoriles, especially when waler polo is played. Tennis shoes, shorls. and blouses or lee shirls musl be worn for all The games: badminfon, nel ball, baslcelball, lennis, and a yariely ol ball games such as Spud, Caplain Ball, and Sleal lhe Bacon. Tumbling, exercising, running races, lag, hopscolch, and iump rope are olher fhings played in gym. There are also infer-class conlesls and swim meels which cause a lol of spirit cheer- ing. yelling, and enlhusiasm.