Flintridge Prep School - Log Yearbook (La Canada Flintridge, CA)

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Since this book is going to press before the tennis season opens, we can only give a tentative line-up and the schedule. The season starts on May 10, with the opponents Cunnnock School of Los Angeles. The team will have been practicing for but a month; however, from the group of Beetle Weaver, Mac Lawrence, John Eliel, Ogden Kellogg, and Dan Frost it is thought doubles and singles teams can be chosen which will compare favorably with other schools ' teams. The rest of the season will include matches with hiarvard Military Academy, South- ern California Military Academy, John Dewey School of Long Beach, and Pacific Military Academy. The Prep League Tennis Tournament will be held May 25 at Long Beach Tennis Club, hlere each school will enter two players in the singles field and one team in the doubles drawing. Last year Flintridge won both competitions with Don Daniels in the singles and Ted Yates and Bill Kellogg in the doubles. Since these three boys have graduated, this year ' s battles promise to be close. At present, under Mr. Myers, the team has been banging the ball every after- noon at the Kellogg Court. John Eliel is promising to be a fine player, and once he has contracted a little experience there ' s no telling whom he will beat. Og Kellogg has been played for years and has developed a good all around game. Beetle Weaver was last year ' s manager, but the love of watching his team mates in action led him to active duty on the courts. He, too, needs but a little experience to go places. Last member of the team is Captain Dan Frost who, at this moment of writing, is a shade better than the rest. Cannon ball serves and overhead smashes are his specialties. Early in June the school championships will be played off for the Partridge Tennis Trophy. With improvement bound to play a big part in the outcome surprises may happen, but now it seems as if Kellogg and Frost will fight it out.

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O u r battery. Mackay pitches one to Benny Earl. The latter ' , 33 not only the best catcher on the team, but qI:o the best hit- ter. pitched balls, but because light bats can be swung with nnore gusto and a greater display of muscles, the spectators witnessed a superfluous amount of pop flys . The final score was 8 to 5 in our favor. (P. S. Junior Manager Bullock put in his appearance and did a noble job of wearing colored glasses.) So far the Flintridge team was undefeated and untied. We had fought, hollered, perspired, and laughed our way through the first five games and now we had to win, or be satisfied sharing a tie for League championship. The final game was with Spanish American who had lost only one of their matches; it meant big doings if we could conquer them also. The game was held there on Saturday, the 6th of April. There were prospective Flintridge students, players ' parents, and the entire Spanish American Institute present. Our outfielders frollicked in their stocking feet and had an enjoyable morning racing through the weeds. Mackay and Earl played truly admirable bail. Earl ' s batting was the best of the season. Munroe and Kellogg handled their share of infield business in a pleasantly effective manner, hiampton made several spectacular stops, Eliel seemed to think himself nervous although he did excellently. The crisis came in the last inning when the score was tied, one up; an opponent was restlessly lingering on third. A fly, which fell just between infield and the outfield, enabled the man on third to come home, making Spanish American the victors, 2 to I . Coach had promised the team a turkey dinner, win or lose, so home they came, having lost, anxious to forget their defeat with WINE (This wine was strangely white and called milk, vintage of the day before), WOMEN (No females were perceptible but because the buns seemed to mysteriously disappear it was suspected that invisible table nymphs were dancing up and down between the plates), and SONG (The rapid eating caused certain internal rumblings which could have been mistaken for the words of a modern jazz song). The final league standings showed that Flintridge shared a three-way tie for first place with Spanish American and hiarvard. Mac Lawrence and Ted Munroe had played their last game in the field for dear old Flint, but the legends will be passed down of how those two raced through Spanish weeds and dodged jumping pits in the S. A. I. game of forty. Mackay had certainly wound up his pitching career with an excellent performance, having pitched with amazing speed and accuracy in the face of a pack of bellowing heathens. They who know unanimously agree that Flintridge has never had a better pitcher than Thorny, never has had a better season than this year ' s, and that any team possessing a deaf pitcher can easily top the league.

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lif Perhaps the most significant thing concerning this year ' s team was that, with one exception, it was composed of Juniors only. This fact is enough to give an idea of the prospects for next year, no matter what losses the team may sustain after this article is written. A brief resume of the teams played and defeated will give you some concept of the power our team possesses. With the idea of starting out in a big way, our first opponent was South Pasadena High. Ranking near the top among the Southland ' s high school teams. South Pasadena was expected to be victorious. Perhaps holding the contest at our home course gave us an advantage, because strangely enough, Flintridge won, 21 — 15. Hampton had the toughest competition of the day ending even up with Bill Cutler; both players turning in scores of 80. South Pasadena hastened to schedule a rematch to be played at their home course. Next followed the ignominious 18 — 6 defeat of the P. J. C. Frosh. The high- lights of the day were Bob Hampton ' s 78 and Frank Pope ' s 79. The strength of our team as a whole was shown by the fact that only one man lost points to his opponent. Then came the match with Eliot Junior High School. Again Hampton scored a 78, leading the team to a 27 — 9 victory. Among the matches on schedule is one of very great interest — the one with the omnipotent J. C. Varsity. Possessing one of the strongest teams in the Southland, theirs will perhaps be an easy task, but who knows? The League championship tourna- ment will fall on May the 4th, but should prove comparatively easy. Other matches