The herald., 1895-02-23
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steady stream. Everything was bright
with colors The crimson of the Univer
sity of Southern California was most con-
ispicuous. A young lady, who wanted to
show her colors conspicuously, was dressed
all in red And her velvety cheeks were
red as her attire. Another young lady
had her hair, very red hair indeed, and
she, too, wore the crimson. She wanted
to wear the black and gold of Occidental,
oh, so badly, but she tried it, and how
fearfuly it matched her complexion the
world may never know, for she wouldn t
wear it and appeared i'll the crimson and
blew her horn for L. 5. c., when deep
down in her heart she hoped the Occiden-
tai boys would win.
One young man had woven round his
collar the crimson colors, and another had
broad crimson bars across his shirt
bosom. Hat bands and neckties of black
and gold, and olive and gold, and blue
and white, were everywhere seen. Para
soils, canes horns and fans were smothered
in colors that indicated Just where the
wearers sympathies were.
What deafening cheers rent the airl 1t
was as near like pandemonium as the col
lege youths and the college maidens could
make it. When for a brief instant the
college yells were silenced, the girls with
the horns gotein and filled the interval
with toots and 'shrill unmeasured music.
And the band played rat-a-tat-tat and
nothing more, for the band consisted of a
pair OF drums and its strong point was
noise.
That gay and festive crowd that hilari-
Gus crowd, that crowd whose chief object
seemed to be to spill out sound upon the
quiet air, overfowed the grand stand,
comfortably filed the bleachers and rem
dered very unhappy three burly police
men, whose duty it was to keep the
ubiquitous small boy off the field.
=" They came in carriages, on horseba OK
and perched high up in tally-hos. One
tally-ho coach came from Pomona. 1t
was filled with bowling, footing college
boys. 1t was gay with the blue and
white of Pomona, and the air around it
was heavy-laden VITA Rahl Rah Rahs I!
.Zip Boom Abs an Po-mo-nas! An
other coach was loaded to the guards
with students from Woodbury. Business
College. Hundreds OF private convey
ances lined the track and horseback riders
we numerous.
What "a perfect day it was for field
sports The suns rays filtered through
.tieecy clou IS that took away the hcaF and
glare and u mild, languorous breeze 4 at
ed on the broad open giving a delicious
cpolness to the atmosphere. 1t was Ike
day made to order.
/ ihe, sport was magnificent. Records
went all to smash in nearly every event OF
that every event would be perfect, but the
surprise was chat each one was o nearly
so and chat some were quite so.
No nrct:ier contest Oh the field was ever
seen tIan the pole vault when Sloan OF
Pomona and knoles of Chafiey, from
the 7-foot mark up to 9 feet 4 inches, and
3Sioan went over tnat and won at 8 feet 7
tinches.
ihe rnnning races were uniformly good
for tho racers We're always evenly matched
and the time was fast, fast enough to
break college records.
The bicycle races were the least salts
factory OF all. 1t was owing to the pace
set at the start in each race, a pace that
would have made "a snail sick ut heart
but when it came TO finishes the riders
made the pace hot one each time and
redeemed the bicycle feature.
The mile walk was not entirely salts
factory because two OF the contestants
cdopted style Of walking which was SO