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

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but it looked more like the time-honored Flintridge Custom of getting the season off to a miserable start. Flintridge won, 2544, but it was a tight squeeze. Eliel and Kellogg shared scoring honors with eight apiece, while Mitchum and Munroe gained four apiece, and Earl Completed the Flintridge quota with a free throw in the third quarter. Schimpff distinguished himself by going berserlc before the astonished throng and Clubbing right and left with both feet and arms. Before he could regain self--control he had amassed three personal fouls in almost as many seconds. A further lively note was lent to the game by the referee who had unfortunately failed to wipe off his glasses and therefore could not tell one side from another. This led to a dis' tressing impartiality in the assessing of fouls and other penalties. On the l7th of lanuary, Flintridge played host to Harvard lff, A. at the Pasadena Athletic Club, in the big game of the season. Harvard was definitely hot, and Flintridge didn't seem to care, a fact which allowed the visitors to get nine tallies in the first quarter. After this uneven start, Flintridge dazedly applied pressure and the score had already begun to right itself by the time the half arrived. The last half was filled with a blue haze of noise, perspiration, and scoring, as the lead see sawed dangerously. When it looked as if the home team was going to win, Harvard made a few last minute, desperation

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asketball Sporting a new floor, a new schedule, and experienced players, the Flint ridge basketball team looked confidently toward sweeping the league in this fifth year of competition. The group that turned out for first practice in Octoe bers youth had had, for the most part, several years of experience at Flint- ridge, or some other school, thus composing one of the most seasoned teams to make its appearance in the Prep League. Ot the first string tKellogg, Eliel, Gamble, Munroe, and Earll Gamble, Munroe and Earl had been playing together for three years, and Kellogg and Eliel were letter-men on last year's varsity. Two other letter-holders from last year, Schimpff and Robbins, although they turned out for first practice, seemed to be unable to shake off a combination of Study-Hall and native lethargy which confined their energies to the sidelines. tin all fairness to Robbins, it must be stated that he crushed his leg to uselessness in gracefully executing a difficult gym exercisel Bob Streander, a new arrival at Flintridge, Al Mitchum, another novitiate, Tom Box, back for another year, and Yogi Iorgenson, Poly's gift to Flintridge, made up the rest of the reserve. Kenneth Hunter was also seen crashing around at peril to life and limb when Demon Study l-fall did not beckon. ln the first game of the season, on Ianuary lU, against Oneonta M. A. at the Presbyterian Church in Pasadena, Flintridge gave a fine demonstration of touching sportsmanship in being unwilling to deliver a sound trouncing to their vastly inferior rivals. At least, everyone said it was sportsmanship, 44

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t I I A 1 tosses which stuck, and Flintridge lost 2l-26. Kellogg maintained his scoring priority over his team-mates by making nine points, Hunter, playing the excel-- lent game of which he is capable, made five, Ben Earl, in spite of slippery fingers, made three, and Gamble and Munroe teamed up to make two counters apiece. Matters took a turn for the better when Pacific M. A. took a 30 to 20 drubbing, on the 23rd at the Pasadena Presbyterian Church. Kellogg was again the hero of the day with ten points to his credit. Eliel with six points, Gamble with five, Hunter with four, Earl with three, and Mitchum with two accounted for Flintridge's first decent score of the year. The game was marked by the usual skirmishes and pitched battles that generally occur when gentle- men of Flintridge and Pacific clash. An adding machine was needed to keep track of the fatalities, while minor cuts, scratches and bruises were not even mentioned in the communiques. On Ianuary 30th, at Polytechnic Elementary School in Pasadena, the Flintridge second string ekecl out a 31-28 victory in a game which ran over time. Although hampered by the under-sized floor, Mitchum, Iorgenson and Streander starred in point-getting, while Melin, Box, Smith and Frazier pro- vided eager support. By now Flintridge had gathered together her terrible might from the ego- shattering game with Harvard, and on Ianuary 31, delivered a beating to Spanish-American that was awful to behold. Kellogg, with his hair stream- ing in the wind and his eyes flashing, moved like a Colossus among tthe pitiful peons, While 19 points flew from his practiced fingers. Gamble, his laugh raised to a cackle by the excitement, fled up and down the court, flinging the ball with unerring accuracy to get thirteen points. Hunter, he of the pho- togenic physique and the white nose, aced six points. Munroe and Earl got seven and three points respectively from guard position, and Eliel got a lone tally in the first quarter. The final score was 48-19, and it was a woe-begone and bedraggled Spanish-American team that trudged from the floor at game's end. This was the only game of the year held on the new court, all others having been held indoors because of treasonable inclemencies in the weather. The final game was the Aurora Borealis at the end of thte basketball trail. It was without a doubt the worst' beating the basketball-playing sons of Flint- ridge have ever delivered to an opponent. It wasn't that the opponent, South- em California Military Academy, was so poor, it was just that Flintridge was unstoppable. Flintridge scored 50 points to a miserable 17 for S.C.M.A. The referee stood transfixed in the center of the court, his clothes and hair flapping in the breeze from the great rush. Everybody joined in the free-for-all. Gamble and Hunter made thirteen points apiece, closely followed by Kellogg, who made eleven. Then came Earl with ten points, and Iorgenson, Melin and Munroe, all of whom made one apiece. Truly a satisfying end to a season in which Flintridge finished second in League competition, better than has ever been done by teams from 'this quarter. 46