davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-22
NOTED ATHLETE
JOINS ST. VINCENT
Was Formerly Connected with Santa
Clara College md Mission High
School Teams at San
Francisco

Griffith Kennedy. the well known
Santa Clara college athlete, will here
after be seen in st. Vincent uniforms.
For two years Kennedy's many South
ern California friends have been urg-
ing him to enter the local college, so
early last week he came south, and
after having had a talk with several
members of the st. Vincent faculty, he
was so pleased with the school and cli-
matte conditions that he decided to
finish his college education in the
southland.
In and around San Francisco Kenne-
dy is famous for his athletic abilities.
While at Mission high school in Frisco
he played several years on both the
baseball and football teams, captaining
10th squads in his senior year. During
the last baseball season Kennedy
played a position on the famous Santa
Clara varsity team alternating with
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-22
Hiqh School Loses to Whittier

Whittier high school defeated Los
Angeles high at basketball yesterday
afternoon for the fourth successive
time in four years. The contest was
played at the Los Angeles high school
grounds, the game being called at 8
o'clock. BY winning this game Whit
tier again places herself among the top
notchers of the league.
In the first half the game started off
with a rush, Whittier running up
high score. The work of Redman, at
forward, was excellent, he making
many of the visitors points. Whittier
was great on team work, which ac-
counts largely for her victory, The
Los Angeles boys had hard fight, but
were unable to ring the baskets, and
the first half ended Whittier 10, Los
Angeles 10.
The local five put up a better game
in the second half, running even ahead
of Whittier for some time. Spencer
went in at forward and succeeded in
touching the basket for points. The
team work of the home team was
much improved, and they tried hard,
but toward the end of the contest the
visitors forged ahead, and the Whittier
high again had the advantage over
Los Angeles by the score of 80 to "a.
The lineup was as follows:
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-22

Mowatt Mitchell of Los Angeles. a
former football player of the Los An
geles high school eleven, was elected
yesterday to the position of captain of
the Stanford university rugby football
team. The election was held at a
dinner given the football team yester-
day noon, and the vote was unanimous.
Now is a freshman at the northern
university, and it is the first time in
years that a freshman has had the
honor of being elected captain of a
football team at Stanford. His family
was notified last night by long distance
telephone.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-22
COUNTY LEAGUE
CONTESTS START
POLY WINS BASKETBALL GAME
BY LARGE SCORE
INVARIABLY RECEIVES BALL AT
ToSS-UP
Los Angeles High School Five Lose
Fourth Annual Game to Whittier
Cracks-Both Teams Make
Many Scores
BY RED PERKINS

The Los Angeles county basketball
league was opened in excellent shape
yesterday. From now on until the end
of January there will be match games
between the high school teams of the
county league.
On Friday afternoon Polytechnic de-
feated the Hollywood five on the lat
ters court by the score of 30 to g..
Polytechnic put up an excellent game
and her guarding was strong. On the
ball being thrown up at center Poly
generally carried it off, owing to the
height of their big center. Poly's team
work was speedy, and she bids fair to
make a strong fight for the champion
ship.
Blair, for the visitors, played an ex-
cellent game, while Slaughter always
Hollywood made the only field goals
for Hollywood, ringing the basket
twice, the other points being made on
free throws. The Hollywood center,
Candee, showed up we'll and adds
greatly to the team
Next Saturday Hollywood will go to
Pasadena and play the five of that
place. Pasadena is not considered fast
in basketball this year, and the Holly
wood boys expect to win. Polytechnic
plays South Pasadena at home on the
same date, and expects to keep up her
good standing.
Harvard Defeats Long Beach
Harvard also came out victorious
yesterday morning at 10 o'clock on the
Harvard courts by defeating the Long
Beach high school five, the score re-
sulting SO to 23. Both teams did fast
team work, while their guarding was
clever.
In the first half the two rivals stayed
closely together, neither five getting far
ahead of the other AT first Long
Beach forged slightly ahead and
seemed bound for a high score, but
Harvard took a strong brace and the
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-22

Field goals: Pemberton 7, Redman
4, Spencer 4, Major 2, Nance 1, Stone
1. Foul goals: BY Pemberton 2, by
Harrigan 2, by Redman l. Referee
Perry Umpire, Morgan. Scorer, Har-
rigan and Caster. Timers, Way and
Clark. Time of halves, 20 minutes
South Pasadena Team Is Victorious
The South Pasadena high school five
defeated the Pasadena high school
team by the one-sided score of so to 4.
The feature of the contest was the
basket throwing of the South Pasa-
dena boys, who ran the score up at a
remarkably speedy pace. This game
places the South Pasadena five among
the leading schools of the league, and
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-22
LEAGUE BOWERS
MAKE BIG SCORES
JEVNE TEAMS ROLL CLOSEST
FRAMES OF SEASON
Six Games Tied to Pin, and In Roll
off office Men and Clerks
Are but One Point
Apart

Some excellent scores were made in
the Southern California Commercial
bowling league last Friday on the Nor
ley alleys on South Spring. The H. j.
Jevne company Office men and clerks
rolled the closest match played in
match game for the season. Six games
were tied to a pin, and in the roll Off
there was only one point of difference
The score:
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-22
SAN DIEGO DEFEATS
ALL-STARS WITH EASE

SAN DIEGO, Nov. 21.-Failure to
hit Butler at opportune times resulted
in the defeat of the All-Stars in to-
days game with San Diego. The
Stars were handicapped by poor back
stopping, the professionals composing
the local team stealing on Sylvia at will.
Because of Sylva's poor work behind
the bat Briswalter gave up the pitching
mound to Bresino after the fifth in
ming, while Garretty relieved Sylvia.
The score:
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-22
gives her a fair chance for the PEN
nant.

gives her a fair chance for the PEN
nant.
AIhambra Five OutcIassed
The Compton high school basketball
team yesterday afternoon defeated the
Alhambra high school five by the one
sided score of SO to %. Alhambra was
handicapped considerably on account
Of one Of their best forwards failing
to appear on the court. Following Is
the lineup of both clubs:
COMPTON ALEXANDRIA
Diamond, Wellman. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Moran
McCfrew .....C...,............... Gates
Stockwell. .........,,....G Goetz, Wallace
Compton Diamond and Wellman,
forwards; McGrew center; Stockwell,
guard.
Alhambra-Moran guard; Gates,
center; Wallace and Goetz, guards.
Glendale Leads League
Glendale high school leads in the
valley division of the Suburban league,
with the highest percentage. One pro-
tested game remains to be played off
between Glendale and Compton, and
will be contested later The winners
of the valley circuit will play off the
winners of the mountain division for
the championship of the Suburban
league. The final game was played off
yesterday.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-22

first half ended in a tie, each school
having II points.
In the second half Harvard went
way ahead. Levy took stand and
held his strong man, Talbot, while the
forwards ran up the score. Fowler
played a fast game at forward, scor-
ing ten field goals for the military
boys. Toward the latter part of the
half the home team worked Still hard
er, leaving the visitors far behind, and
the game ended with the score SO to %
in favor of Harvard.
A week from today Harvard meets
the crack Whittier five on the home
grounds. Whittier has one of the
strongest teams in the league, having
won the pennant for three successive
years, and stands even with the Poly
bunch in the race for the champion
ship. Harvard hopes to put up a
strong fight and defeat the former
champions. Long Beach plays the Los
Angeles high school five on the same
day at Long Beach.
The line up for the game was as fol-
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-22
Totals ...414 4ss $50 461 1888 528 AIS 1892

In the second game the H. J. Jevne
team was victorious over the Western
oa,,o,oaTxv GPOrn.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-22
Harvard Defeats Long Beach
WIFE OF CITY OFFICIAL IMPROVING

The wife of a we'll known city official,
who has long suffered from rheumatism
and who had come to regard her case
as incurable, Is now very much i'm
proved. She said yesterday: Il can
still tell when it is going to rain, but
the pain has left me and l feel two
years younger already, after having
been treated but two weeks by the
Rheumatism Specialists, 3O6 San Fer
nando building. This new treatment
has done wonders for me, and / regard
it as the luckiest day of my life when
decided to try 1t. after having suf-
fered untold agonies for more than
three years. These people are surely
making good their guarantee to cure. I"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-22

brand. Two-base hits-Butler, Moore, Gar
retty. First base on balls-Off Briswalter, 1; off
Bresino, 2; off Butler, l. Struck out-By Bris-
walter, 8; by Butler, 3. Hit by pitched ball
Autry, Cakes. Hits-On Brswalter 5 in five
innings; off Bresino, In three innings Passed
ball-Garretty Double play-roman to Bresino
to Weed. stolen bases-Adams, Bennett
Downie, Autry. Lebrand Stoval Sacrifice
hits-Downie Butler Left on bases-Al Stars
a; San Diego, @ First baaie on errors-All
Stars, l; San Diego. 2. Time of game-1:21
Umpre-Hanrahan.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-15

Nadzu gained nose victories. Twenty
one books were in line and betting was
lively Summaries:
First race, 81 furlongs, purse-Fargo Rose.
107 CPowers) Il to 10, woni Rosamo. lo9
(Kirschbauna), to s, second; The Drake lo'
(GilberD, IL to 2. third; time 1907 40. Captain
Hansen, Osceola, Col. Hackett ana Adiiahd
Iecouvreur finished named.
Second race, furlongs, selling-BeIwethef,
los (sweeD, to l, won; Anna May, lOt
fI<irschbaum), to s, second Hereafter, lO3
(B sullivan to 1, third; time 1:12 20. Sill
yer Stocking, Ellerd. May l. N, Godena ana
Francis Joseph finished as named.
Third race. ~ miles, selling-Nadzu, 100 tE.
sullivan). TO 5, won; Mike Jordan, lo5 tC.
Ross. 3 to @ second; Frank Lubbock, l05
(Archibold) to l, third; time 206 40. Tala-
mund. Col White Kogo, Fulletta and Sir
Wesley finished as named.
Fourth race 6A furlongs, Oakland handicap,
$1,000 added-Fitzherbert 101 (Upton), to 2,
won; Jeanne d Arc, 80 (SweeD 10 to l, second;
Native Son, 90 &C. Ross) ID to l, third time
1:IS Royal Tourist, Sewel, Tony Faust,
Jack Nunnally, Eye Bright, Don Enrique,
Iistowel, Smiley Corbett and Royal Ben nm
ished as named.
Fifth race, / mile and 80 yards, selling
woodcraft. 1Os (Powers), / to 5, won; Husky,
10e &C. Miller), 10 to l. second; Phalanx, 1o1.
(sweet 12 to 1, third; time "a. L. G. Ack-
erly Etapa and Judge Nelson finished as
named.
sixth race, So furlongs. purse-cotytto, 112
CArchibald), to 20, won; Argonaut, 10 CIV.
Miller 10 to /, second; Bubbling Water, 107
CWalsh). 10 to 1, third; time los 2-5. Palo
Alto, Guyisher and Vibrate finished as named.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-15
HILDRETH WINS
PAIR OF EVENTS
FITZ HERBERT AND WOOD
CRAFT IN FRONT
FORMER EASILY ANNExEs $1,000
HANDICAP
Jeanne dare, Held at 20 to /, Finishes
Second, Beating Out Royal Tour
LIST, Don Enrique and Jack
NunnaIiy

OAKLAND, Nov. 14.-Sam Hill
dreths high class two-year-old, Fitz
Herbert, won the Oakland handicap
today from clever field of sprinters
at Emeryville and took a half second
off the California record for 61s fur
longs when he ran the distance in 1:1S.
Twelve horses went to the post for
the event, which had $4,000 added. The
Ellison entry, Royal Tourist and Don
Enrique, was favorite, with Fitz Her
bert, Tony Faust and Smiley Corbett,
running as the Hildreth entry next in
demand. Royal Tourist and Don En-
dique were away poorly. Smiley Cor
bett went to the front and led till the
stretch was reached. Fitz Herbert
then assumed command and won cas-
lily from Jeanne dare, a 40 to 1 shot,
which closed fast. Native Son was
third. Royal Tourist closed up much
ground after the poor start he received
and was fourth.
The Hildreth colors again were in
front when Woodcraft galloped home
in the fifth. There We're a number OF
interesting finishes. Fargo Rose and
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-15
[. A: A. c. GOSSIP

. According to Henderson and Witt, the
art of hunting should be practiced by
artists only. According to these same
would-be hunters they shot thirty
ducks during their trip to the New
port Gun club. The number was given
out as follows: Henderson was asked
how many birds they shot on their
trip, to which he replied "Oh, we only
got seven" A little later Witt was
asked the same question. I'VE got
twenty three" was the answer AT
first nobody doubted that the couple
had succeeded in getting the birds they
claimed. But when lunch time came
around and no duck was seen lew OF
the members began to quizz both Bill
and Witt No accusations We're made,
however, until the dinner hour neared,
and then Henderson was asked to pro
duce even a feather just to show his
good faith. Bill said sure" and
"ducked'' into the cloak room, turned
out the lights, sprawled around Tor
a few minutes and emerged with a
handful of feathers. This satisfied all
with the exception of Jay Welton' VINO
gave one of the boys the wink ana
beckoned for him TO 1olloW, Wnen III
the hall Jay said that Bill had ripped
omen a pillow and grabbed handful of
feathers out of it and desired the COM
pany of the other member to bear PROOF
to the discovery. Quietly they slipped
into the cloak room and turned on the
light, searched around ana saspeo
with horror when they found the mu-
tilated remains of a solitary mud hen
Bare patches all over the body OF the
deceased showed where somebody mad
been picking it's feathers. Jay and his
companion agreed to keep the matter
quiet and watch for results. A few min
utes later Witt strolled leisurely to the
cloak room, grabbed a hat, and with
the deftness of the hunted thrust the
mangled remains of the trophy into it..
He walked into the kitchen, produced
the bird to the chef and informed the
man who cooks of the startling fact
that what he beheld was a duck, and
that it was to be cooked for dinner.
The chef thought it was a joke, but
noticing that Witt talked with the man
ner of the man who fights for his food
believed 1t right to disabuse the young
man, and for the first time in
his life Witt knew the difference be-
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-15

on the finishing touches for the scrap
with Ketchell. AL and Billy are good
friends and the big native son is able
to give the Illinois boy all the hard,
rough work he requires to get into
condition.
Hugo Kelly has written to Baron
Long to the effect that he Will come TO
Los Angeles via Frisco and will stop
off at the northern city to see the
Papke-Ketchell scrap THANKSGIVING
day. This means that Kelly will not
arrive in the south until about the fol-
lowing Saturday and will not get down
to training until about December 1.
He considers the loss of time as an ad-
vantage, since 1t will enable him to see
Papke in action again and note any
Improvement the champion has made
since he became the king of middle
weights.
Tom Jones, manager of Papke, writes
from the training camp at shannon.
resort in San Rafael to inform his
Southern friends that Billy is making
| excellent progress in training. He says:
"Just a few words to let you know of
the condition of things in the Papl1e
camp at Shannon's. Everything is in
the best possible shape Papke is work
ing and getting in the best of condi-
llOn anu COulQ llSAlL OlA LII 90 ICY ~
tice. Our motive in training here Is
similar to that which caused us to go
to Venice, and we are not worried in
the least regarding the result of the
go Thanksgiving eve. have in our
camp Bad Bill Aldridge, Ollie Cornett
and Big Charlie Miller, and probably
will add another sparring partner next
week. Give our regards to all our
friends down there and tell them that
the championship honors are in no
danger of passing in the next battle
where they will be at stake"
Montgomery is not showing up to the
satisfaction of Sam Hildreth, although
he is getting back into better form than
that which he showed down east. Hill
dreth believes that his great horse will
be ready to run his best races along
after the holidays and expects him to
win his share of all the big events in
which he starts after Christmas.
Reports to the effect that money is
plentiful at Emeryville, but that there
is no big betting going on seem to be
| founded upon truth. Nearly everybody
who has come from the northern track
brings the same story to the effect that
the bookmakers seem to be frightened
by the presence of so many of the big
bettors at the track and are extremely
wary of anything that looks like $100
bill. This will drive the big bettors to
the southland, where several of the
biggest operators in the business will
hang out states and get into competi-
tion for business.
Fred Merkle, the lad who broke up
the pennant fight of the Giants by his
boneheaded conduct in refusing to run
to second, will be back with the team
next season. He has just finished q
transforming trip with the team and
says that he has been reserved for next
season. Well, one such play, while
costly, may be the means of making a
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-15

IN ROMINENT among the arriving
stables from the east last week
~ at Emeryville was that of the
horses that Frank Weir will race dur
ing the winter season at both tracks,
representing horses owned by himself,
Davy Johnson, Frank Ferrell and T..
H. Milden. Among the horses that
Weir took to Oakland was the peer
less and marvelously great Roseben.
the greatest sprinter in the history of
the turf Roseben is not as great a
horse now as he was a couple of years
ago, but he still is 1.-THE Big Train, ."
and with lessened weight undoubtedly
will more than pay for his shipment
across the continent. He is a certain
starter in the Speed handicap at Santa
Anita, and inasmuch as he prefers a
fast track for his best efforts, Weir
will race him almost exclusively at
Santa Anita after the turn of the
year. Weir also has Jim Gaffney, one
of the crack 2-year-olds of last year;
Rockstone, Sir John, Strike Out, Cres-
sina, Sir Lynnewood, Fancy and a few
others, in addition to a nice bunch of
2-year-olds and yearlings. The ma
jority of his horses are speed burners
that prefer a pasteboard track, and
undoubtedly he will ship them to Santa
fall up north.
Barney Schrieber has two divisions of
horses on the road to Santa Anita and
Emeryville from his celebrated Wood
lands farm in Missouri. These will be
added to the horses he already has on
the coast and will be raced at both
tracks. Most of the bunch are year.
lings.
Colonel w. f. Mosby, we'll known
here, will bring Jockey Mccarthy to
the coast to ride principally for Sam
Hildreth during the winter. He proE-
ably will not race any horses on the
coast. Mccarthy has been one Of the
eastern cracks for two seasons, but
never showed anything sensational In
the riding line while here last winter.
Hildreth will have Mccarthy, Dugan
and Shilling on call throughout the
winter and will keep them busy, as his
extensive stable, which will be divided
between the two tracks. must be kept
busy to pay expenses.
Cy Myrick, who returned Friday from
Frisco, says that Sam Hildreth is half
crazy to get back to Santa Anita, and
believes that Hildreth will pass the
principal portion of his time in the
southland during the winter. His
brother-ll~laW, IdyloI' VIII iooh aIeSl
the Emeryville division, while Hildreth
and Dave Leary will see to it that the
southern division wins it's share of
purses and stakes. Uncle, according to
Hildreth, is training most satisfactor-
lily. and he believes his $30 900 colt will
prove that he is worth every cent that
Hildreth paid for him before the VIM
ter passes into history.
Al Kaufman has gone back to Fris-
co and will remain in the north until
ne has other southern engagements. He
probably will assist Papke in putting
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-15

tween a mud hen and duck. 1t took
him less than half a minute to get into
earshot confab with Henderson. Then
there were two wise ones. Jay Welton,
who overheard the conversation, stated
that the hunters stalked around the
Gun club all day long, and although the
ducks were thicker than fleas they were
unable to hit one. After their ammu-
milton was gone they took turns in run
ming relay races and trying to wind one
of the birds. This did not succeed.
They held a council of war, which re-
suited in an agreement to the effect
that Henderson was to throw stones at
each duck he saN in an effort to lame
it, and then Witt would chase it and
strangle 1t. They cleared an acre or
two of stones before Bills marksman-
ship located the wing of what he pre-
sumed to be a baby duck. Witt
sprinted and grasped the neck of the
mud hen in his powerful hands. Their
honor and the day was saved. Nit.
Avast there, you-hunters(D
The baseball team will go to Tropico
this morning, and If confidence counts
for anything will repeat the doings of
last Sunday and win the game. There
is no plausible explanation as to why
they should not do so. With Guernsey
in the box the club has one of the
best pitchers in the local amateur
world. The press team won their game
against the prize fighters when the
former team used him as the twirler.
Louis only excuse for losing the game
today will be the fact that he has a
toothache, which must be accepted, be-
cause one, at least, of the members is
we'll able to testify that toothache
would make a fellow lose anything,
even his equilibrium.
A few members who have taken a
keen interest in the doings of the clubs
four-oar crew are planning trip to
Naples this afternoon to watch the boys
work out under the direction of Coach
Treloar. Next Sunday it is hoped
that the first baseball team of the club
will jeonardize its reputation to the
extent of accepting challenge from a
scrub team which will be picked from
among the real star players of the club.
Unless Welton and Lou are indisposed,
the game will be pulled Off at Naples
and the boys then will pay visit to the
crew in their new quarters in addition
to watching the workout
Everything indicates a busy athletic
season at the club during the winter. In
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-15

the club ever has had, and that is say
ing a good deal. The program will be
a regular Thanksgiving bill of fare,
and cannot help drawing the crowds.
The trolley line that runs to the
grand stand entrance is putting in a
switch so that they can handle the
crowds without unnecessary delay
something that was not done even for
the Wild West show a few weeks ago.
The track at the park is a busy place
these mornings, with owners and train
ers getting their horses in shape for
the matinee. 1t reminds one of Wind
sor or Detroit before the opening of
the grand Circuit, and it will be livelier
yet this week, for all the horses will
get in Monday or Tuesday from
Phoenix, where they were racing last
week, and after rest of two or three
days to get over their trip, will begin
to have the edge honed on them for
the last race of 1908. For the ones
who have campaigned so successfully
this year will then be given a letup
for several months before being put to
work for the strenuous campaign of
1909