Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-06
STUDENTS HAVE
WILD SCRIMMAGE
LOS ANGELES HIGH SCHOOL
SCENE OF RUSH
students Seize Suit Case Containing
Rivals colors and Teacher Is
Slightly Hurt In En-
suing Battle

with the first meeting of the higf
school society, the Star and Crescent
Los Angeles high school was yesterday
the scene of some of the most exciting
incidents witnessed in the school fol
wears. on the occasion of the first
meeting Of the Star and Crescent socl-
etv the senior B class for the first time
shows its colors to the school, trying to
keen secret the colors until that day
The higher class is just as anxious to
learn their rivals colors, and intense
class jealousy is the result.
The classes now at Los Angeles high
are no exception to the rule, and class
feeling ran high. Throughout the great
er part of the morning several senior
AS watched the office safe where the
colors were known to be, and when the
senior B teacher came for them yes
terday noon she was closely watched.
Had she taken the ribbons herself
nothing would have occurred, but de-
spite her protests several of her pupils
constituted themselves her bodyguard,
thereby putting the higher class on
their mettle. While one of the boys en-
gagged her attention, another snatched
the suitcase which she had set down,
and Immediately lively struggle en-
sued. Members of both classes engaged
in a brisk melee, which resulted In the
injuring of the teacher and the opening
of the suitcase containing the colors.
Their object attained the higher class
felt sorry for the injury they had done
to the teacher of their opponents, whose
popularity in the rival class is as great
as that in her own. 1t has been GUS
tomary for the AS to wear rags the
color of their younger class ribbons
when the older classmen discover the
1arf In cIair N
penitence the AS did not take ad-
vantage of their knowledge, and
marched into Star and Crescent without
the rags.
CoIors Unfurled
Disgraceful kissing on the part of the
younger class marked their entrance
into the assembly room, but was not
responded to by the AS. But another
surprise was in store for the children"
Some of the older boys had gone into
the auditorium before the meeting, and,
contrary to orders from the office, had
placed a large flag of the rose and
green, the higher class colors, behind
the curtain. At given signal string
was pulled and the pennant unrolled be-
fore the astonished school.
All through the meeting the colors
remained there, but feeling ran high,
and when the senior A president as
cended the platfrom, kissing, which
was characterized as shameful and
cowardly, was heard from the seats of
the lower class. At the close of the
nominating speeches three BIS jumped
on the platform, and in a few seconds
four more were standing behind them.
The flag was snatched from its place,
tossed behind the boys, and the school
awaited the rush. But it didn't ma
terialize While the president walked
to the platform and engaged the atten-
tion of the younger class boys, a girl
wearer of the rose and green seized her
beloved colors. and by the time the vice
principals had recovered their breath
and ordered the combatants to their
seats, the affair was all over.
The election that followed was not
marked by any further demonstration.
Walter Duzan was chosen president,
Miss Helen Dickinson vice president,
Miss Agnes Brown secretary, and Allen
Davis treasurer
After the affair was over the gentle
manly young president of the BIS,
Harry Rogers, came to the higher class
and assured them that his class regret
ted the rowdyish actions of some of the
members. The lower Class is made
up mostly of courteous pupils, but the
actions of twenty or thirty of their
number yesterday placed a stain on the
name of Los Angeles high school such
as years Of good behavior cannot erase.