Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-27
TOURNAMENT PARADE
PROSPECTS BRIGHT
INTEREST INCREASES IN ROSE
CARNIVAL
Automobile Section viii Be lmpor'
tant, as Effort to Revive 1t
Meets with Good
Success
tsnnnlal TO The 1Ierald.l

PASADENA, Cal, Dec. 26.-President
George P. Cary of the tournament OF
roses this evening outlined the pros
pects for the tournament Of roses pa
rade and park features for next sat
urday, predicting one Of the largest II
not the largest parade in the twenty
two years of the organizations expert
enoe. "oTbis year" said President Cary,
1--WE already have received entries from
eight of our neighboring towns. while
last year We had but three. and three
or four is as much as the average mas
been in the past. We have also the
national guard, which will this time
enter several companies of we'll drilled
men and besides we will have four or
five marching clubs next Saturday
when last year there were but one or
two.
"I went out to Tournament park to-
day and found the track in almost per-
feet condition.. One of the chariots and
teams is already there and the other
will be there tomorrow. Training for
the race will then be taken up every
day for the big Saturday race.
zone of the relay teams was also
out today practicing and the others
will be there tomorrow. This feature
is going to be especially attractive
this year and l believe that with the
new half-mile track, which is well
banked, closer and more exciting races
will result in the most interesting
program of the past several years"
Autos in Two Sections
This year special attention will be
paid to the automobile section of the
big pageant. This feature has rather
languished in the past few years and
this time a determined effort is being
made to revive it. This part of the
parade will be in two sections and
there will be not less than eight hand
some cups for both sections. The pres
idents cup will be given to the best
decorated automobile in line and the
beautiful Victor Marsh cup will go
to the best decorated automobile in
line driven by a woman. In addition
there are three special tournament
cups offered for each of the two di-
visions.
There will be four floats from the
grade schools and a splendid one from
the high school. The four grade school
floats will present an allegory, the
theme not being made public until
seen in the line of march Principal
Ely of the high school is designing
the float for that institution and states
that he hopes this year to surpass any
thing done in the past, fine as the
floats of former years have been.
Throop institute will be missed from
the parade, as usual. Few understand
this condition of affairs, for the trouble
started several years ago when Throop
and the high school were keen COM
petitors for the first school prize. High
school won and while they at Throop
say that this had nothing to do with
it, yet the fact remains that Throop
has not had an entry since
Stanford university was well repre-
sented in the parade last year and may
be this There is also a chance that
Berkeley may come in with an automo-
bile. The Academy of the Holy Cross
once entered one of the finest floats
ever seen in the parade and it is not
decided whether or not the institution
Will have a float this time. The post
of queen has been practically abol-
ished as this feature cost greatly out
of proportion to its. attractiveness, the
Tournament of Roses association haV-
ing to pay the Dill for the queens
gown, to say nothing of the gowns for
her maids, the carriage hire, coach
men, foOtmen, etc.