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POWER
of suggestion is a reality —
try it Saturday and help the
Mercuries win the title.
ELECTIONS
coming — Who would
make
good commissioners?
to think it over.
Begin
VOL. V— NO. 10
PASADENA HIGH SCHOOL, APRIL 25, 1917, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
PRICE 5 CENTS
VINCENT’S TEAM
RECEIVES 2 TO 0
IT
Commission Choose Marga¬
ret Mitchell and Hugh
Wynn to Edit Book
NAME TO BE CHANGED
Financial Reasons Forse Ti¬
tle Change, But Annual
Will Be Best Ever
Breaking the established precedents
of years and shattering the immemor¬
ial custom of yearly publishing an
Item Annual, the Class of Nineteen
Seventeen has broken away from the
habits of their ancient and honored
foregoers in this institution of learn¬
ing and will this year establish a new
precedent, inaugurate a new custom,
^nd will publish a Chronicle Annual.
Hunnicut’s Pitching Proves
Fatal to St. Vincent’s
Hopes and P.H.S. Wins
Bulldogs Defeat Collegians
and Gain Much Prestige;
Fast Ball Played
Playing fast baseball behind super¬
ior boxwork, Pasadena defeated the
fast St. Vincent College team last Fri¬
day by a score of 2 to 0. As the St.
Vincent team has defeated all of the
city schools and a large majority of
the other baseball teams around
Southern California it is considered
quite a feat to send them home in de¬
feat. Hunnicut’s pitching together
with good headwork on the part of
the Bulldogs enabled them to turn this
trick, thus becoming as it were, fa¬
mous over night.
The St. Vincent’s men appeared on
the field and by their manner let it be
generally known that there was going
to be nothing to the game. As the
innings went by and they failed to
score they became gradually more do¬
cile until along ahpfcfc the eighth in-
GIRL LEAGUE PARTY
IN MUSIC HALL NEXT
FRIDAY EVENING
going to be struck out by Lefty Hur-
nicut that they swung at everything
within their reach. After the fifth in¬
ning “Hunny” was never in danger
and he calmly proceeded to make his
strikeouts total thirteen for the after¬
noon, which is an extremely lucky
number.
Pasadena put a run across in the
first inning when McNabb walked and
took second and third when Keenan,
the St. Vincent pitcher, threw the ball
to right in an attempt to throw out
Peddicord. Then Peddicord laid down
a neat sacrifice and Pittsburgh scored.
The other run came in the third when
Burton took first on a fielder’s choice,
stole second, took third on a balk and
came home on Connie’s single through
short
The newcomer in the field of high
school literature will have a special
staff chosen from the budding authors
of the school and the commission has
this year chosen Margaret Mitchell, _
editor of the ItarevJaiV'the edi+p^j|hip,( ning they were so sure that they were
and Maurice Wynn for business mah^0'"’"0'
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ho hv Toftv
Нч-».
ager. Kenneth Fuessle, Commissioner
of Publications, will have general su¬
pervision of the whole book, and the
different departments of the big book
who have made themselves known
along a literary line.
The reason for changing the name
of the book to the Chronicle Annual is
a financial one. Last year the Item
Annual could have no advertising mat¬
ter, and lost several hundred dollars.
This year the commission, after due
and deliberate thought, decided that
this should not occur again, and, as
advertising is permitted in the Chron¬
icle, the Item Annual has been dropped
forever and the Chronicle Annual will
henceforth occupy the position as rec¬
ord book of the Senior Class.
Ralph Hosier, special sport writer |
for the Chronicle, and one of the best
contributors to the Item, will handle
the task of writing the athletic depart¬
ment. “lsilliokie” is well qualified for
this arduous position and will further¬
more have Howell Smith to assist him
in the compilation of the athletic vic¬
tories of the year.
Barbara Loomis and Frances Bart¬
lett are to write epitaphs for the grad¬
uates, just a little verse or something
of the sort to place alongside of their
pictures, but some job when the offi-
citl statistician murmurs something
about three hundred odd people who
are to receive diplomas this year.
One of the special features of the
book is to be the dramatic department
and the numerous plays that have been
staged in the past year will be re¬
viewed in a most original manner. In^.
^his departme^i^\g».l.iaii»!%|»-6a*ia»e|a<»|
"‘Vancement of the dramatic VorlTm e
Pasadena High will tell of the benefits
of this line of school activity and
Dame Rumor has it that one C. Kaye
will be the author from whose gifted
typewriter will come this article. The
other work of this department will be
handled by the inseparable three, Ray¬
mond, Simonson and Vesper.
Other members of the staff will in¬
clude such talented personages as An¬
ita Scott, Margaret Bravinder, Mary
Freyer, Eugenia Ong, Viola House,
Robert Lilley, Parker Lyon, Chester
Pearman.
, And the contents of the book are to
be of the finest. Cuts are what make
a book interesting, so some twenty-
four pages of snapshots taken around
the school, comprising some two hun¬
dred and fifty separate pictures, are to
be included. In addition to these, the
page headings and tail pieces are to be
the best that the school can produce
and the art department is already
working overtime on the production of
handsome designs to grace the maga¬
zine.
Hughie Wynn is so interested in the
financial end of the book that he has
Glowing lights under the per¬
gola, soft music from the music
hall, delicious eats, girls in pret¬
ty sport costumes, but the boys?
They are nil, taboo, absent.
Why this heartless exclusion?
It is the Girls’ League Sport
Party, to be held Friday evening
in the music hall. A fine pro¬
gram is being planned which will
include among other good things
some excellent music. The com¬
mittee, of which Alice Blick is
chairman, has planned surprises
which the members of the com¬
mittee refuse to divulge; every¬
one is curiously waiting to see.
The committee members are
to be hostesses for the evening
and will have part of the enter¬
tainment in the music hall and
part under the new pergola
which is to be gaily decorated
for the occasion with multi-col¬
ored Japanese lanterns. And the
refreshments? Nothing said yet
— come and see. Every girl is
cordially invited, Music Hall,
Friday Night.
$***$*$$* ❖
EXHIBIT GALLERY 15
NEW FEATURE FQR ART
By C. KAYE
Tuesday morning during assembly
period, the new Exhibit Gallery of the
Pasadena High School Art Department
was formally opened with a short
speech of presentation by Ralph Jo-
honnot, head of the department.
Room 207, in the Jane Addams Build¬
ing, has been redecorated for the ex¬
press purpose of giving the proper
setting to the finished work of the
growing department. Soft shades of
gray have been used throughout, even
to the gray tables and chairs. Table
A fast double play in the sixth runners of electric blue give the need-
robbed Pasadena of another chance to ed dash of color to the more sombre
VOLUNTEER BATTALION
TO BE FORMED FOR
STUDENTS
Petition to Be Sent to School
Board; Consult Your Par¬
ents for Opinion;
Company From Each Class
Is Plan; Teachers Vol¬
unteer to Drill
tally.
The feature of the game was the
twirling of Hunnicut. He allowed but
five hits, struck out thirteen men, and
did not walk a man. Hunny is without
doubt one of the best prep pitchers in
the Southland and should prove a puz¬
zle to Long Beach next week. Kenny
DleHuff was out of the game with a
bad finger and Mills performed behind
the bat.
The box score:
ST. VINCENT’S
Banning 2b . .
Hickson c
Clemens 3b . .
Keenan p
Herlihy lb
Klinkhammer
Delaney If
best quality, something like seventy -five
thousand nine hundred ninety-eight
words, the combined labor of thirty
people and several linotypes, presses,
engraving plants, paper mills, Ink fac¬
tories, and typewriter factories. There
will be about a thousand copies print¬
ed, requiring twenty-four linotypes
forty-eight hours to set up the type,
со
uled some figures showing just -five hundred pounds of typemetal
. ifcNabb ef
Peddicord Jf
Burton 3b .
Getschine ss
Strader .
Mills c .
Mitchell 2b
Phelps lb . .
Hunnicut p
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SCORE BY INNINGS
St. Vincent’s .. 00000000 0 — 0 6 2
Pasadena . 10100000 * — 2 4 2
SUMMARY
Sacrifice hits — Peddicord, Burton. Stol¬
en bases — Elder. Klinkhammer, Burton.
Double play — Klinkhammer to Banning to
Herlihy. Struck out — By Hunnicut, 13;
by Keenan, 4. Base on balls — Off Keenan,
2. Balk — Keenan. Left on bases — Pasa¬
dena, 3; St. Vincent’s, 6. Umpires —
Meskell and Blake.
Willie Hawks is playing a fine game
of tennis at present. Willie is only a
Junior but certainly is making the reg¬
ulars hustle to hold their jobs.
wh : will mak< up the magazine and
what ea,ch and every person that pur¬
chases a book will receive and the
price is only to be one dollar for the
whole thing.
Here 'hey are: There will be two
hundred and fifty pictures taken
around the school, pictures of each and
every graduate the entire faculty, pic-
fifty pounds of copper engraving and
thirty-five pounds of brass and lead
work, over a ton of paper, and twenty
gallons of ink, about half of which will
be highly colored. These figures prove
to the entire satisfaction of the staff
that the book will be the best ever and
to relieve the strain of paying $1.000,-
000 all at once, first payment tickets
surroundings.
However sombre the room itself may
be, the exhibits are marvels of poly¬
chromatic art — worthy of the fine new
setting in the gallery. In place of weird
and useless sketching of busts, and
three-legged stools, and here and there
a bunch of onions, the examples of
constructive work are uniquely orig¬
inal in every way. Quasi-futuristic col¬
ors, unusual designing, and clever
poster work have replaced the time¬
worn sketch books of mid-Victorian
days.
The new gallery is not open merely
to art students, but is for every person
interested in the work. From time to
time, exhibits of European art collect¬
ed just before the present war by Mr.
Johonnot, will be placed in the gallery
for inspection of 'students and instruc¬
tion of those in fit classe^.
“It seems rather strange to me that
there are no boys doing work in the
Art Department,” said! Mr. Johonnot.
“Of course they may fear the abund¬
ance of girls — but that’s hardly plausi¬
ble.” And We agreed with him.
Another interesting bit of work be¬
ing carried on by the department is
work in textile dyeing, and successful
results show ability along the rather
unusual line.
With every town organizing Defense
Corps and a possibility of conscription
within the next month, Pasadena High
School is alive with plans to organize
a Student Battalion of young volun¬
teers willing to give time each week
to military training.
The plan originated some days ago
when a discussion in regard to stu¬
dents enlisting in government service
was holding the attention of every
thinking student. Especially among
upperclassmen has there been marked
interest.
There are in Pasadena High School
some seven hundred boys, most of
them physically fit for military train¬
ing. In addition to the students there
are ten or twelve faculty members who
have had the necessary training, and
a few members of the Officers Reserve.
It would be a simple matter to pro¬
cure an army drillmaster to give the
boys their primary training, and non¬
commissioned officers of the Ambu¬
lance Corps would be of vfilue in help¬
ing in the further training.
A most feasible plan for the organi¬
zation would be to muster in volunteer
dompaniesi from each class of the
school, perhaps making a minmum
number of sixty-five. That number
would give a total of 270 — enough to
start; with. Later, and as the interest
grows, more would be asked to join.
There are many possibilities to be
considered. There could be competi¬
tive drills between companies of the
different classes with a trophy for the
honor company.
There can be nothing done until a
petition is presented to the School
Board and the subject taken up with
that body. In the meantime, students
are requested to talk over the plan
with their parents and seriously con¬
sider starting the Pasadena High
School Volunteer Battalion.
POET FOLEY SPEAKS
FOR TUESDAY ASSEMBLY
With a rare combination of humor
and pathos, James Foley, the well
known poet and humorist, entertained
the students in an assembly on Tues¬
day, April 17. For nearly an hour he
kept the audience on the edge of their
seats listening to his poems, witty say¬
ings, and philosophy. Mr. Foley’s
poems about children were especially
delightful and his poems of hoys
showed that he had not forgotten that
he himself had once been a boy.
Mr. Foley says that he would divide
his his talk into three parts: enter¬
tainment, instruction, and inspiration,
and carefully label each. The best
liked poem was probably the one of his
grammar school rhetorical days as it
reminded everyone of the time when
he spoke his piece before the school.
Mr. Foley’s poems are certainly true
ENGINEERS FINALLY
SELECT INSIGNIA
Permanent Design Selected
by Club; Sign Up for
Bronze Pin in Hall
After considerable discussion over a
suitable design, a committee, appoint¬
ed for that purpose, finally decided up¬
on the pin to be adopted by the Engi¬
neers’ Club. The pins are to be bronze
with the words “P. H. S. Engineers’
Club” on a raised gear wheel. Oppor¬
tunity is now being given to all mem¬
bers who want pins to sign up for
them on the bulletin board. These pins
will not be changed from year to year
but will he the permanent insignia of
the club. Although the design may
seem to represent mechanical engi¬
neering only, it is meant to be typical
of construction work, in some form of
which almost every engineer is en¬
gaged. The design was not formally
submitted to the club since that would
make considerable delay and it was
desired to get the pins as son as possi¬
ble since it is so late in the year.
tures of each of the classes, three hun- will be placed on sale within a few i to life and always bring back memor-
dr o and twenty-three jokes of the days. 1 ies of times not long past.
SENIORS WIN INTER¬
CLASS DEBTTE TITLE
Once again the worthy and revered
Seniors have already proved their
superiority over the rest of the
school. The finals in the interclass de¬
bates resulted in a unanimous victory
W. C. Wilson,
Faculty Chaperone
QUALITY STREET IS
CHOSEN FOR CLASS
Seniors Also Decide to Abol¬
ish Junior-Senior Party
Because of War
The Senior meeting of last Monday
was called for two purposes, the first
being the Junior-Senior Party, the oth¬
er the Senior Play.
On account of the war in which the
country is involved, it was suggested
that the Juniors be asked to call off
the party and donate the money that
would have been expended for this
purpose to the Red Cross. Many of
the colleges are sacrificing their entire
Senior Week and the unanimous ver¬
dict of the class was that P. H. S.
could very well do without the annual
party this year.
“Quality Street,” by J. M. Barrie,
was the play chosen by the committee
for the Senior Play. Miss Sterling, the
class advisor, gave a brief synopsis of
the play, and asked that those wishing
to try out for the play see her at once.
There are to be thirteen girls and ten
boys in the cast, so that twenty-three
Senior actorines will have a chance to
show their histrionic ability in the an¬
nual classic.
Taylor Malaby gave some interest¬
ing figures relative to the cost of stag¬
ing such a performance and the- initial
estimates give a very low figure.
LYONS AND LILLEY GO
TO BIGJONVENTION
San Jose School Hold Con¬
vention of Student Bod¬
ies; Will Report
PASADENA MEN
LEAVE FOR
NORTH
Southland Champs Will Go
North to Win State Title;
Ten Men to Carry Cup
EXPECT CLOSE MEET
Paddock Out to Beat North¬
ern Preps; Whit Reeves
to Perform in Mile
Following are the Pasadena rep¬
resentatives who will leave for
Berkeley tomorrow morning: Coach
Main, Vice-Principal Wilson, Cap¬
tain Jacomini, Paddock, Bedall1,
Wright, Wilke, Perkins, Reeves,
Saunders and Mitchell.
The scheduled time for the seasoned
athletes of the Golden State to assem¬
ble is very near at hand, and tomor¬
row the representatives from the
Southland start on their journey to the
northern meet. Along with the other
huskies go ten men wearing the Red
and White. The team has great hopes
of bringing the state cup once more
to the South, hut to reside in the local
institution rather than adorn the halls
of Manual Arts.
Capt. Vic Jacomini has shown up
especially well this season and the
Bulldogs are fortunate in haiAig such
a leader. His time in clearing the
120 yard barriers has been almost
phenomenal and the altitude attained
by him in the high jump is of the best.
Viv has the added requisites of a good
leader and is an advocate of clean
sports from start to finish. This opti¬
mistic, cheerful, hard working athlete
has well been christened “The greatest
track captain in the history of P.H.S.”
Along with the captain, the P. H. S.
tracksters have a manager of no mean
ability, Lawrence Platt, who has most
successfully handled the job assigned
him by the commission. Platt has
made most satisfactory arrangements
for the meets held this season and is
to be hailed as “one man in a thousand
for the position.”
Charles Paddock needs no comment.
He is recognized far and wide as the
best century and 220 man of prep cali¬
ber on the coast. For two seasons
I Charles has gone undefeated and has
j twice equaled the world’s prep record
| in his races. Paddock is a sure 10
I points rung up for the old school in the
state carnival and promises to be a
world beater the coming year.
Reeves, the boy with the rare assort¬
ment of legs and one of Coach Main’s
valuable discoveries this year is doped
a sure place as a miler in the coming
affair. Whit has had no track experi-
While conventions of Girls’ Leagues, j ence until this seaSon and to date has
and Editors, and Teachers, and other
things are held every now and then,
the only remaining kind of convention tb„ r.,,iunir
was one for Student Body Presidents j Saunders is a second find of the
and Commissioners. ; coach. His race is the 880 yard dash
Until this year the matter has been ; and be bag turned this distance off in
quiet. Now, for the first time, a pro- 1 close time Saunders, like Reeves, had
gressive school in San Jose sent invi- ; never bef0re donned the running
tations to every other high school in j ci0thes until 1917
Weight men have been especially
j lacking on the P. H. S. aggregation
but “Long” Dick Mitchell
has partically solved the problem. In
every meet Dick has copped a few
points, and drew down third place in:
proven himself to have the stuff and
headwork to clean up many a race for
the state, to attend such a convention, j
Pasadena’s representatives were Park¬
er Lyon, Commissioner of Athletics, tb}g g^ason
and Robert Lilley, Commissioner of
Debating.
In a coming assembly the two dele¬
gates will speak on work discussed atjthe Southem Cal. discus’ event
the San Jose meeting, and while at j zip wilkie ls not a find in the track
San Jose these two orators will deliver | activities of the school- by any way
speeches setting forth the methods of lt>g figured, altbough be has developed
governing P. H. S. and incidentally will
tell what a fine school Pasadena is.
The two commissioners left for San
Jose last Thursday and will return as
soon after the State Track Meet as
his ability in the pole vaule since the
first call was made for material. Royal
was the big point winner in the Inter¬
class Carnival this year and has
brought down points in every meet,
possible. They thought that they might Zlp,8 speed bag long since been ln evi.
as well take this in while they were
north and constitute the P. H. S. root¬
ing section.
dence both on the track and gridiron.
He runs in the relay in combination
with Paddock, Wright and Bedall, who
form a hard crew to beat.
Kenny Wright, the last but not the
least important discovery of Coach
i Main, steps off the quarter in A-l style.
Along with the coach, the manager
and the team, appears another dia¬
mond enthusiast, Julian Woodward,
for the fourth year team. The Juniors |
сопшюп1У
called “Woody.” He has not , He ig buUt (or spee(j and his long
'missed a game and has the batting j eagy stride lg expected to put him
averages, the schedule, the box scores lose to tbe front OI1 the 28tb.
of every game and the stellar lights of j Then tbere ,g Bedall of gridlr0n
other Southland nines completely , notoriety and Perkins> the “speeding
memorized. It would he well if a few cierk>» wbo are probably to journey
more people had the interest in dia- 1 n0rthward to contend in the local hon-
mond activities possessed by Woody. jorg Both are fast men and gbould do
. ! something in the State. This corn-
had the honor of losing to the champs
in the final round.
The winning team was composed of
Marian Laird and Harold Butterworth
while the Juniors were represented by
Lucile La Main and Paul Rees. The
question was: “Resolved, That Pasa¬
dena should build and operate a mu¬
nicipal railway between Pasadena and
Los Angeles.” The Juniors upheld the
affirmative, while the winners took the
negative. As this question is one of
vital importance to Pasadena just at
present interest in the debate was very 1 pletes the list of contestants,
high. Both sides were well prepared I The above mentioned phenoms in
to prove their case, but the Seniors! the world of sports occupy that posi-
seemed to have a little of the edge on , tion through, their own hard work and
the argument. * (Continued on Page 4)