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

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», During Christmas vacation on December 27 our third annual Alumni Banquet was held at the Pasadena Athletic Club. Bob McNeish, U. S. C. football coach, was the speaker of the evening, and he interested all with his talk on How to Scout a Football Team. Afterwards many hot words were uttered by alumni as to the rela- tive merits of their various Alma Maters. January 2, school reopened. By the look in many faces it took no genius to tell that New Year ' s night life had taken its toll. January 4 saw the Flintridge basketball squad swamp the quintet from Pacific Military Academy by a score of 21-12. Led by Captain Mackay, who scored 12 points, our team showed that it could match roughness with roughness In winning the game. Our winning streak was broken when, after journeying all the way to Long Beach on the 12th, we lost to a powerful Saint Anthony team. Our boys just could not ' find ' themselves in the different gym till the game was more than half over but it was then too late and our valiant rally fell far short. Our fourth game of the season is one that wil never be forgotten by those who saw it. On January 19 a crowd of around three hundred gathered to witness the game against Southern California Military Academy. All three hundred yelled them- selves hoarse when Ogden Kellogg heaved a basket from mid-court in the last thirty seconds to give Flintridge the victory, 19-18. After the game, we held our first dance of the year in our gym, which was amazingly well decorated. It was announced the following Monday that Earl Weaver had won the ticket sale for the game and that the Junior Class had nosed the Seniors out by two-tenths of a ticket average. From then on, however, we owned the flashy suits that we played in. On January 23, we travelled to Gardena, only to lose again, this time to a versatile Spanish American quintet by the close score of 28-22. Captain Mackay distinguished himself by scoring 14 points. Two days later we easily outscored an Oneonta team, 36-12, in a game in which every member of the squad had a chance to prove his worth. January 26 to 29 was marked as a week-end of sleepless nights, hot coffee, wet towels, and aching heads. Finals the next week were the terrifying cause. Our last Prep League game of the season on February 9 was also our third loss of the year, this time to Harvard on their court by the score of 24-14. This was the third time our boys had travelled to meet an opponent, and also our third loss, but these were offset by four victories. b3

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September 18, school opened with all the veterans back along with the new recruits ready to stage intellectual wars with the faculty. Activity was somewhat quieted for the first week by the ' hot spell ' which took turns breaking thermometers and morale. September 20 saw Coach Lyndon organize four intramural football teams which battled in Flintridge ' s own Dust Bowl for weeks on end, till On November I , a memorable date for the Juniors, a Senior and a Junior team lined up on opposing sides in a gridiron gigantic that was to decide the supremacy in football. It was clear after the game that the teams were so evenly matched that only the gods could decide the winner, and they decided in favor of the Juniors by a score of 14 to 7. The days of the Grecian orators were recalled on November 7, when, after much haranguing, the name of this annual was changed to THE FLINTRIDGE LOG Friday, of the next week, was marked by a good old-fashioned spelling bee in which the Seniors evened the score between the two classes by soundly trouncing the Juniors. After two weeks of intramural basketball employing the ' close your eyes and shoot ' method, on November 20 serious practice began for the regular season. Thursday, November 30, school was dismissed for the Thanksgiving holidays, with the boys in a much more joyous condition than they were when the next Monday happened around with all students conditioned perfectly for one of Coach Lyndon ' s ' pepper-upper ' gym classes. On December 14, everyone turned out to cheer for our team in the first basket- ball game of the season. This greatly helped the boys since Dewey was sent down to defeat, 23-16, in a game which was close until its dying moments, when our scor- ing spurt turned it into a rout. December 15 was a marked day in the eyes of the Flintridgeans, for it marked not only the beginning of the vacations but also our first annual Field Day which was held to raise money for this year book. 62

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February 15 saw the finish of the basketball season as the Juniors, over-confident as they were, came from behind to edge out the Seniors 11-10 in the first overtime period. This put the Juniors ahead by fourteen points in the struggle for class supremacy. On February 24, with bats well polished, gloves thoroughly padded, and base- balls everywhere, we went into our first game of the new season. Somehow, in spite of many severe cases of ' jitters, ' the final score read 6-5 in our favor over the FHarvard team. In our next league encounter on March I against Pacific Military Academy we won in a walkaway, 14-6. The Pacific pitchers blew up and walked eight men in a row, and these walks, together with two or three hits, produced ten runs in one in- ning for us. The next week our baseball team showed it could really play baseball since the once mighty Saint Anthony team was turned back I 1-5. Enlarging our score consid- erably were homers hit by our batterymen. Earl and Mackay. The next day the Munroe brothers represented the school in the L. A. Invita- tional swimming meet, and garnered three medals between them. The 13th of March proved no unlucky day for Flintridge, as we continued vic- torious with a 2 I -0 victory over Oneonta. Two victories in two days seemed no trouble at all when our golf team soundly trounced South Pasadena ' s 21-15. Thus they established themselves as a team of the best high school golfers in Southern California. With everybody obviously needing it, wanting it, and enjoying it, Spring Vaca- tion came and went from the 15th to the 25th, although some ' absent-minded ' pupils thought the end came on the 26th, or at least they said so. At Black-Foxe Swimming Pool on the 29th Ted Munroe won the Southern Cali- fornia private school 100 yard title, with brother Dick coming fourth. The next morning our baseball team cinched at least a tie for the League Cham- pionship by a victory over Southern California Military Academy, 8-5. Mackay pitched his best game of the season and it seemed he had found his control. Both batting and fielding had improved; therefore — Hopes were high on the 6th of April that we would win undisputed claim to the championship in our last game of the season with Spanish American. And our hopes remained high till the last half of the last inning, when two runs were scored against us to give the boys from Gardena the victory, 2-1. Regardless, we went back to school and had a royal feast to celebrate the tie for the crown with five victories to a lone defeat.