University of California Los Angeles - Bruin Life / Southern Campus Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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but could have been made prettier in the last half had the players kept their positiqns better. The Normal boys fooled the H. S. boys by having the guards throw for the basket when opportunity afforded. The Mid. C boys did pretty fair work in the last two games in the way of scientific playing. Magoffin and Gallup at forward played their positions well, as did Chaffee at center. The latter made several fine long throws. Robinson had no end of wind and used it to good advantage. He always plays steady. The Mid. C boys expected to play the Y. M. C. A.. Throop. and a second game with the L. A. H. .S.. but had to give way to training for the interseholastic field day. However, they hope to play again next year and uphold the reputation they have won by not being defeated once. H.VRRV RUESS. GIRLS ' GYMNASTIC CONTEST. Just before the close of the mid-term occurred what the young women of the school very naturally consider the event of the ' season, as far as athletics go — chat is, the Com- petitive Drill among the different classes. Ten girls had been elected from each class, and with no training beyond what they had received in their regular . rymnasium work, went through a verv precise military drill, followed first bv work in free gymnastics and then by the heavier apparatu- work — rope-climbing, traveling on rings, vaulting, etc., — in each branch of which several from each class competed. Then came the high jumping, in which all took part. The mem- bers of the difi erent divisions wore long streamers of their class colors so that the judges, who sat in the balcony at the north end of the hall, could easily distinguish them. The rest of the school packed the three sides of the bal cony, crowded the stairs, and some of the boys even clambered on to the rafters for lack of standing room below. But the Sr. .- ' s were most in evidence. They had pre-empted one corner, had festooned the railing with green and white bunting, and, anticipating their victory, had prepared yells with which to greet their successful classmates. Nor were they disappointed, for at the close of the con test, after ten minutes of the most intense excitement, during which the judges counted up the marks, the announcement was made that the Sr. A ' s took first place ; the mid. . ' s, second ; and the Sr. B ' s. the third. This contest was the very thing the school needed, for it not only aroused an interest in the gymnai-.im work, which is a good thing for any school, but it excited- a lively com- petition among the different classes and so increased the school spirit that its effects are still noticeable. And the heartiest thanks of the whole school are due to the pro- moter of the contest. Miss Jacobs. Hl9H 20

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BLUE MONDAY. Monday ' s the bluest day of all. Whether skies are sunny or rain doth fai! ; Never a Monday lesson !5 learned : Never a word of praise is earned. Pencils are broken, and books are lost : Fears of e.xaminations nccost. Things are forgotten and all goes wrong. Monday ' s a wearisome day. and long. We cannot study on Friday night. By Monday all is forgotten, finite : Saturday is our holiday, . 11 cares for the hour are cast away. Our Sunday training would never admit Of study, or anything like to it. So Monday ' s lessons must go unread; Commendations remain unsaid. Nothing moves smoothly, all goes wrong, Monday, alas ! grows w ' eary and long. But an old law says, what can ' t be cured Will best be quietly endured. So we scramble for books that have gone astray. Borrow a pencil, and go our way. For. though each week brings a Monday blue. It carries a roseate Friday, too. Jessie Lewis. 0 v. W Vit iuvv ' )c ,c 5,Vi ] niiu uoi» o. ' ,o yn-dsiMV