The herald., 1896-12-27
@ LONG BEACH,
A Man Drowned in the Surf-His Body
Not Recovered.

AO1NG bEACf1, Lee. Z6.-A steam
launch from the iarbor tender Gedney
has been taking soundings in front Of
Long Beach this afternoon.
At about 8 o'clock Lieut.. Ellsworth,
who was in charge of the party, dis
patched a surf boat towards the shore
for the purpose of taking further sound
ings. While in the surf, by mismanage-
ment of the boat, it was overturned. The
sailors swan ashore, but Norwegian
named H. Flood, dressed in ordinary
clothing, with-hgh topped rubber boots
on, was drowned.
The boat remained in the vicinity fer
three-quarters of an hour and diligent
search was made for the body but it was
not recovered. The launch picked, up
the sailors from the shore and steamed
away to San Pedro.
Five churches hero had entertain
ments Christmas eve. Although the pro-
grams were arranged expressly for the
delectation of the children, they were
as general thing, so cute" and full Of
merit that they were just as thoroughly
enjoyed by the older people who showed
it by joining in with the young ones in
manifestations of delight
Three of the churches had a Santa
Claus. and all ofthem had gaily decor
ated Christsneas trees from which in
Vulnerable parcels of CONNECTIONS and
godies hanging pendent on their
branches were taken and distributed to
all the children of the different audien-
ces. The Sixth church. the Friends did
not have a qublic entertainment on ac-
count Of sickness among some of their
Sunday school children, but they were
not sighted on that account, for Santa
Claus. that good, dear old soul, as soon
as he found it out Just bundled up his
toys and goodies and candies on his
back and visited the homes of each of
his Sunday school children in person
and he left for each of them nice pres
ent. All the churches had large audien-
ces and the number of presents to be
distributed taxed the resources of Santa
SO much that he had to engage the SER
vices of an elephant to help get those
allotted to the children of the Methodist
church to the tabernacle, the point of
distribution.
The school exercises by the children
of all the churches were very cleverly
rendered and showed careful and pains
taking efforts on the part of the power
behind the throne-the modest and unas-
suming instructors.
CHRISTMAS SPORTS.
The bicycle races by amateurs Of Long
| Beach billed to be run on Christmas
I tised, and considering the limited
| amount of training our boys were able,
owing to the lack of time between the
| conception and consummation of the
races to indulge in. some remarkably
| fast time was made.
The first event of the days program
, was the eight-mile handicap, the course
being from the judges stand on the
| porch of the Marshall house, on Pine
| between First and Second streets, north
to Eighth, on Eighth east to American
| avenue, thence north to Anaheim road,
thence east to Alamitos reservoir lake,
returning by same route.
| The starters in this race were: Albert
Saunders, Ray Julian. George Hart
| Harry Graves, John Phillips.
| Saunders, Julian and Graves were
| scratch men, George. Hart being allowed
a start of three minutes and John Phil
lips receiving half minute allowance
The first one in and the winner of the
(, first prize and first time prize was Ray
Julian, who made the supposed eight
miles in the quick time of 25 minutes
( and 10 seconds, Harry Graves winning
second time prize, and George Hart
winning second place prize. The prizes
were. first prize, bicycle lantern; sec.
ond. cyclometer given by Mr.. Frank
| Wheeler, and box of candy, given by
| Harry Williams The second race was
|
| ing riders competing: Ray, Julian, E
II. Spradlin, John Phillips, Charles Glass
M. w. Wixon, Harry Graves and A
! Saunders. The mile must have beer
| curtailed at one end, as the time made by
the three winners was, first. Ray Julian
minutes and 15 seconds; E. H Sprad-
lin, minutes and 20 seconds John Phil
| lips, minutes and 30 seconds
The third event was a quarter mile
dash and had as entries AL. Saunders
John Phillips, Harry Graves, Ray Jul
ian and Harry Williams. This was won
by John Phillips in "a seconds. Ray Jul
ian second. AL Saunders third and
Harry Graves fourth.
The next and last event was the quar-.
ter mile slow race which had four en-.
tries, John Phillips coming in last and
winning the race.
In the afternoon the High School nine
played picked nine a game of baseball
on the ground adjoining the school house
on the north, the picked nine winning
by score Of % to 10. 1t had been stip.
ulated that to win, the picked nine
would have to have one more than double
that Of the high school or the lattei