Richmond High School - Shield Yearbook (Richmond, CA)

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-— op ACTIVITIES 3. 4 2 ey La FOOTBALL Arthur Fischer, Captain At the beginning of each year there are many difficultieS$to face-in the athletic programs. The coach must pick the teams according to the abilityand experience of the players. Ability is not so important as experience, btit on¢ directly follows the other. The experience of an athlete makes the expert player. This year we have met lack of experience in several of our games but in each ease we have eome out on top because of ability. The first experience of this sort was in football. American football was introduced into our school as an entirely new game, for very few fellows had ever played or even witnessed an American game. Rugby was well known, but this made it still harder to grasp the fine points of the American game. With the opening of the season many showed up for practice, and after several weeks of hard coaching by Major Hill, difficulty after difficulty was overcome. The opening game, following tradition, was played with the Alumni. The outcome was a victory for the school which proved the ability, but not the experience, of the team. The two following games spelled defeat for our team, but this only made the boys buck the line harder, and the result proved their grit and spirit. Each game found an improvement in the team, and when the season ended, the games won outnumbered those lost. The success of this year’s team is due to the keen coaching of Major Hill. Next season the team will be captained by Clyde Cassidy, and because the fellows are more accustomed to the game, we look forward to a very suc- cessful year. ef, aa

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her better, now that she is preceptress of the Strate and Narro seminary for girls, doesn’t it? She wrote that Francis McLaughlin is causing a big sen- sation by his evangelistic meetings. The papers say he is one of the greatest evangelists of the age, a sort of Billy Sunday the second. He is planning a trip to the Fiji Islands to convert the heathen Chinee, or whatever they are. Clinton Arnold has become quite famous as an inventor, hasn’t he? His latest invention, an automatic spelling machine, is a big success; I read that he made about a million dollars on it. Muriel Burdon, who is now head of the English department at Richmond Hi, advised all Juniors to get one. I went to a peppy girls’ ‘‘ Basketball’? game last night and was awfully surprised to see Elizabeth Ellison refereeing. She is a prominent business woman here in the city, but she often referees as she is still a star player. I saw a copy of the Richmond Independent the other day and whom do you think the ‘‘ Advice to The Lovelorn”’ is edited by ? Johnson! We wonder if she speaks from experience. There was a speech in the paper, too, which Vivian Transue had delivered before the Federation of Women’s Clubs. She is the President, you know, and her talk was very clever and interesting. Norine Lee is attorney for one of the big banks of Richmond, and is mak- ing a rep for herself; sort of a financial expert, you know. She is handling the funds for that committee of Edith Parks’. You knew she was head of the movement to raise seventeen billion dollars for the shivering south Sea Island- ers, didn’t you? A worthy cause. Hale Stoddard started it when he told of the deplorable conditions he saw down there on one of his trips for Ring Ching Sisters’ Cireus, which he is managing. You undoubtedly read about the Oaks purchasing Chet Long. We went to the game yesterday, and he sure has Babe Ruth backed off the diamond. That reminds me of someone else who always was good on flies—Dick Rad- cliffe—he’s gone in for aviation—these dare devil stunts. He made good on that trip across the Atlantic, when he took over Harold Slate, the new Am- bassador to the Republic of Turkey. They say that Thelma Wright, Slate’s secretary, is the real power behind the throne, tho. Susie Sakai has returned to Japan after gone thru U. C. and studied es- pecially the politics of America, to start a campaign for woman suffrage in Japan. Irene Rose is sailing on the same boat. She is going to Japan for her health. : Oh, my dear, I must tell you about-Hlmira’s wedding Anniversary party. [er name isn’t McGuffin any more, but is still seems natural to call her that. We had a whole crowd of Celebrities. Sara Thompson has just come home to rest up after her big success on Broadway last season, and James Sullivan, the great psychic medium was there so we had a seance n’everything. He’s really wonderful. He told us all about Rosamond Stanley and her studio in Greenwich Village. He just came out from New York, you know. Our mill- ionaire, Phil de Luna, is quite a connoisseur; he bought one of Rosamond’s sanvasses at the last Art Show. Rosalie Hadsell was there, too. She has just published her Trigonometry Book, and I hear she has been offered the chair of Iigher Math. in a big eastern college, so she won’t be here much longer. The Lawrence Wrights’ were there, also, with their little daughter, who en- tertained the guests with one of her clever dances. She is named G tladys for her mother, and inherits her terpsichorean ability from both of her fond par- ents. Patty, my sister, has been down in Richmond for a few days. She is try- ing to get William Snelling, the Chief of Police, interested in the Blue Laws. She’s so strong for them, and nearly talked poor Selma Minssen to death on the subject. Selma is a social welfare worker here at one of the settlement Houses. Irma, you lucky girl to see that Auto Race! Didn’t you feel important (Continued on Page 23.) = 18 | — a ——

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BASKET BALL Francis MacLaughlin, Captain Basket ball this year had to be organized upon an entirely new basis. Few men were left who had played on last year’s team, so the men who were to compose our team were largely lacking in experience. Picking a team froi inexperienced men was thus the task put to our coach, but he managed to pluek a good share of victories from defeat. As in Football, the season opened with the defeat of the Alumni. When the season was in full swing several of our players, through accidents, were ‘Danheoseseeerte LOVING cuP unable to play. This unfortunate oecurrence made it necessary to break in new men, but nevertheless the team kept on with many triumphs. Schools which had not been defeated by our last year’s team, were now the losers, and on the whole, the entire season was a success. As we look into the future of Basket Ball in Richmond [High we see teams which will excel all others put on the court by our school. This is not idle talk, because the present unusual work of the lower classmen means the ready experience and ability of future teams. BASEBALL Curtis Smith, Captain For many years baseball has been a grave question in the Richmond Union Ihgh Sehool. Lack of backing, lack of funds to purchase baseball ma- terial, and heated discussion against baseball kept the American pastime in the baek-ground in Richmond High. This season the live baseball element rallied its forces and a baseball team aor a