Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-02
LONG BEACH GIRLS
STRONG IN SPORTS
UPHOLD ATHLETIC PR0WESS
OF SCHOOL
Win Basketball Championship and
Promise to Carry OFF Swimming
Honors-Bright Prospects
for Football Team

Athletes of the Long Beach high
school during the past year have made
a great record for themselves and for
the institution with which they were
connected. Long Beach last year was
strongest in boys baseball and in girls
basketball The boys came out second
in the interscholastic baseball league,
losing to the Poly aggregation after a
hard fight. The girls took first honors
in basketball, defeating every school or
the city section.
This fall swimming will be introduced
at hte seaside school in the woman's $
department, and already some fast ma
terial has been developed, including
Miss Helen Perkins, who holds the in
door swimming record of the coast.
1t was said unofficially yesterday that
Long Beach would play the American
football game next fall, despite the ru-
more that Rugby has been spoken Of
Edward Peterson, who has been elect
ed captain, is one Of the tastest atm
letes in the interscholastic league. This
Is Petterson's third year at Long
Beach, and he is considered an all
round man in athletics. When the
baseball season opens in the fall he
will try for one of the outield posi-
tions
Larry Darby has been selected to
manage the team in the fall, and ne
should prove good manager ana nave
no trouble in making for his team one
of the best football schedules in the
south.
Fulton. who will hold down the key
stone position on the baseball team, IS
an all-round athlete and can I'LL IN on
the back field on the football squad;
Thomas (Tony) Boland, who graduated
10, MN lveg gp
make his first appearance at shortsIop
next year for the high school team
which ran such a close second 10 the
Polytechnic high school team this year
for interscholastic championship non
ors. Boland holds fifth place in the
batting percentage, with an average OF
249, and is gradually climbing 10 the
front among the top notchers.
In the field there will be some raw
material tried out by Coach Coffin, VINO
viii arrive in Southern California from
the Colorado School Of Mines cough,
ran, who did we'll In the outheld, VIII
enter Berkeley this fall and will be
considerable strength TO athletic teams
for the blue and gold university.
Whittier Flickenger, in right heId'
will be another fast player that Will pe
missed from the ranks OF the Long
Beach high school.
Harry Galbraith, who Will go behlnd
the bat this fall, is an old stuueIlt az az
the seaside high school, and is fast in
picking 'em off the bat. He will be one
of the best batters on the team next
year, according to his practice games
with the Saturday teams Husky
Young, who will try out for the mounu
and third base positions, is another
PLAYER that will be a tower of strength
to the baseball squad, and should make
good as captain of the baseball team;
Through the able coaching of Miss
Gertrude Upton, the girls athletic de-
partment has been one OF the 1oteIlloss 5
athletic departments In the SCUM. Ie, anu
il was through Miss Upton that Long
Beach was able to carry away the
vomen's basketball hOnors In the re-
cent interscholastic league.