Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-28
GIRLS TO BATTLE
IN BASKETBALL
GREAT CONTEST EXPECTED AT
U. S. C. TODAY
Los Angeles High School Team, Which
Has Unbroken Record of Victo-
ries, Will Meet the
"PoIy" Players

The girls basketball team of Los
Angeles high will make its crowning
struggle of the season this afternoon,
when it will meet the Polytechnic
team on the U. S. C. courts.
The academies have defeated every
team that opposed them this year.
many by overwhelming scores, and
they feel confident that they will al
lot like fate to Poly"
The two teams played a practice
game on the POLY" courts during
Christmas week, at which time the
high school girls won by a score of
30-13. Today's game had been sched-
uled for last Friday, but rains prevent
ed and it was postponed for more
favorable weather.
The tennis players at the high school
are getting in trim for the Ojai
tournament, which will occur April
%, 26 and 27. The boys who. will rep
resent the blue and white will be
chosen by q tryout to be held Satur-
day.
Both boys and girls will try out April
6 for place on the team t1hich will
play Polytechnic April 10.
Dancing and refreshments have been
provided by the committee in charge
of the coming debate between the high
school and Pasadena This will occur
Saturday night. The Friday Morning
club house has been secured for the
affair." and after the youthful debatcrs
have finished their struggle for mas
terry the defeated ones will be given
chance to forget their troubles in
the mazes of the light fantastic waltz,
or around the festive punch bowl
Boiler and Phillips will represent the
high school, upholding the negative
of the question, Resolved, that the
immediate annexation of Cuba to the
United States would be for the best
interests of both countries"
The high school debaters have been
no less successful than their athletic
companions this term, and high school
will need to score but two points to
qualify for the final contest for the
championship cup.
The students self-government COM
mite passed sentence yesterday on a
band of high school boys who created
disturbance at the high school
minstrel show Saturday a week ago.
The show bad been held for the pur-
pose of raising funds to send the
track. team north. During the course
of the entertainment the boys, to-
gether with several outsiders, stuck
their feet over the railing of the gall
lery in Simpsons auditorium and
CduSeu d disturbance.
The four ringleaders will be debarred
from all school activities for the rest
of the term. their names were posted
on the board, where all the students
could read of their misdeeds, and they
were each sentenced to three weeks
service in "Room One" the high school
penal colony.
A second class, consisting of follow
ers, were sentenced to have their
names posted and to serve three weeks
in Room One" Still a third class
were excused from the more weighty
indignities, but will also do penance
for week in the pententiary.
The high school track team, which
won third place in the Stanford meet,
returned home Tuesday, bearing as a
trophy Of it's trip the champion relay
cup. According to the method of
counting in the north, the relay race
did not enter in the final count, or the
high school boys would have been sec
ond. Seward. the captain of the team,
is visiting relatives in San Francisco
and he stayed over when the team
left for home.