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

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asellall The starting game of the baseball season, on February 28, against Oneonta, was scheduled to be a warm-up, but Flintridge found it needed to become over-heated before squeezing out a victory, 3-l, The main purpose of the game was to select the team, and when the dust of battle had settled, there was Streander sate at second, and Kellogg huggin' third. Also, Robbins at first base fit seems that Robbins sometimes had to sit up with a sick friend, so either Smith or Detoy took over in his absencej, Eliel at shortstop, and Mitchum, Munroe Iorgenson, Miller and Moller were scattered decoratively about the outer park. Hampton and the loquacious Earl took over the bat'- tery, and it was not found necessary to make a replacement in this quarter all season. After the mighty midgets of Oneonta had been dealt with, the Flintridge squad dug sleep from their eyes early on Saturday, March 8, and motored over to Harvard to lose by a score of 6-3, You will be pleased to know that the game was not lost until Flintridge had made one of its famous last-ditch struggles, Although we got the bases loaded several times, and managed to knock several Harvard pitchers to wherever bad pitchers go, Harvard clung tenaciously and effectively to an early lead, and not even Ben Earl, whose sturdy knees stopped more than one run, could change the outcome. 47

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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

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1 r 'T On March 17, Flintridge lost a home game to Spanish-American, by an ugly 8 to 3. A home run by Munroe fnow playing third base in place of Kellogg who had ruined a thumbl cmd the usual farcical fielding were the trade-marks of this game. The hitting was considerably improved over other games, but, unfortunately, the improvement could only be produced in spots. Besides Munroe, Detoy and Streander were the honored ones to make a tour of the bases. A double header on March 22, at Long Beach, found Flintridge winning a game from Southern California Military Academy, and then dropping one to Saint Anthony. ln the first game, against S.C.M.A., the score, 9-6, indicates that our men from Stoney Gulch had at last found themselves. Munroe made the circuit trip in the first inning by virtue of a lusty three-base wallop, and Mitchum obliged in the second. ln the fourth inning, Iorgenson, Robbins, Eliel and Mitchum bludgeoned their way to four runs, and from then on the game was put away . Smith in the sixth, and Eliel and Earl in the seventh innings, blazed away to make the best score of the season for Flintridge. ln the second contest of the double header, St. Anthony proved a bit too strong in the fielding department, and so won, 10-5. In this series, in which he pitched all the way, Bob Hampton proved that he was just as good after fourteen innings as after four. Hampton, Robbins, Mitchum, Munroe, and Eliel came through with runs, but our somnolent fielders suffered from their chronic affliction, rigor mortis. A trip to Culver City, on the 26th of March, turned out to be most fruit- less. It was a job for a McCormick reaper, and not a baseball team. Greeted by a weedy field and an extreme scarcity of players, Flintridge finally left, and the game was chalked up as a forfeit in our favor. It is here that our record becomes a bit wet. It was a rainy Friday when the last game was played Qironically enough, against Dewey Schooll, but we see from the water-logged book so faithfully kept by Manager Allen, that the score fell in favor of the opposition: Dewey, 8, Boulder Haven, 6. In spite of a strong under-tow, and combers around home plate, both teams stuck it out at Brookside Park in a contest which soon took on the complexion of a water- polo match. Home runs by Munroe, Streander, and Eliel Che batted 1.000 per cent for the gamel failed to get enough runs. One unfortunate from the ranks of the enemy stopped treading water for one awful minute, and he was carried, gurgling, away down stream by the tawny current. . 48