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

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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

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Swimmin How Coach Lyndon turns out such effective swimming teams, no one knows, Apparently most of the team graduates each year, leav- ing a group of bleary-eyed chlorinated strag- glers to carry on the following season. At com- mencement the student body watches the swimming team graduate, and shaking their heads with profound regret, mutter that next year will be different for swimming at Flint- ridge. Yet we always win, and year after year steadily improve, invariably humiliate hugo high schools by vanquishing them, and quite consistently place in the Southern California C.l.F. championships. A coach must have swimming intuition, that is, he must sense what stroke a boy man naturally do, and what he will have trouble with, He must know how much punishment a swimmer will take, before he tires of his sport and loses his enthusiasm. He should be able to obtain the respect and admiration of his pupils. As students, we are qualified to say that Coach Lyndon has been a success with respect to all three qualities. Of the trials and tribulations of the team, little need be said, Gur local mermen always have laughed more and soaked up less water than any other team in the vicinity. They wear beautiful bathing suits which are appealing to the weaker sex, the latter being made still weaker by our glistening handsomes, the team stays reasonably cool on hot days, and is ex- cused from all strenuous exercising which might tighten the precious swimming muscles or aggravate their sensitive dispositions. The amazing thing to ponder is how Coach suc- ceeds in finding a place for everyone. Egbert, Smith, Box, and Melin all found their places in the stiffest competition and although inexpe- rienced they performed remarkably. Either Coach succeeds in inspiring his swimmers, or the gods are with us. Whatever the case may be, you may be sure that Flintridge will do well in any meet. 50