Los Angeles High School, 39; Ontario High School, 11.
The girls’ basketball team of the Los Angeles High School defeated the maidens from Ontario yesterday afternoon in a decisive manner on the local school’s courts.
The Los Angeles girls think that if they playas effective a game when they meet the crack U.S.C. five that they will cause the university colors to trail in the dust.
If the local high school should best U.S.C., it would leave Long Beach, Los Angeles and U.S.C. all tied for first place in the Southern California League, and it would probably be necessary to play a series of finals the decide the championship.
But if the university team defeats the preparatory school lasses, the championship banner will grace the walk [sic] of the U.S.C. trophy room.
Yesterday’s game brought out some clever individual playing and plenty of good team work on the part of both teams. . . .
Capt. Hart of the visiting squad . . . played a star game for her team, getting over the field in a clever manner and being a sure basket thrower. . . .
Many times . . . there was a straight pass down the field, the ball starting from the high school guard and going the length of the court, not being out of the blue and whites’ possession until the goal was made. . . .
Following is the result of the play:
|
HIGH SCHOOL
|
G
|
FT
|
F
|
| Miss Plummer, f |
11
|
7 |
4 |
| Miss Burke, f |
4 |
0 |
1
|
| Miss Griffin, c |
0 |
0 |
6 |
| Miss Augur, g |
0 |
0 |
1 |
| Miss Hunter, g |
0 |
0 |
2 |
•
|
ONTARIO
|
G
|
FT
|
F
|
| Miss Hart, f |
1
|
0 |
3 |
| Miss Smith, f |
2 |
5 |
2
|
| Miss Hickox, c |
0 |
0 |
4 |
| Miss Farlow, g |
0 |
0 |
1 |
| Miss Gerrard, g |
0 |
0 |
10 |
•
|
The sound of falling bodies, the dull, sickening thuds of the dime novel (and every other variety of thuds) re-echoed through Simpson’s Auditorium last night, while an interested audience looked on spellbound at the finest exhibition of sword fighting and jiu jitsu wrestling ever given in Los Angeles.
The event was given under the auspices of the athletic department of the University of Southern California, and all the athletes of the university and heavy backing from the Jap clubs of the city were out in force. . . .
The athletic events . . . were opened by the fencing matches. The Japs entered heartily into the sport and, armed in headpieces, shoulder, hand and rib guards, they set to, with their heavy bamboo swords.
For the next half hour the sounds brought back the memories of the boiler factories, and the girls in the audience let out delighted squeals as the wooden swords pounded on the hard craniums of the brown men.
One of the features of the fencing was the way in which the Japs “held” their mouths — for the most part, open. Yell after yell of oriental joy and victory was sent out by the contestants and lent excitement to the game. The spectator were treated to an educational exhibition which they will probably carry with them for the remainder of their lives.
Mr. Barnhart of the university enlivened the program by twisting his limbs around his ears and making faces at the audience while doing the “splits” standing on his head.
The little brown boys then trotted out, and the fun began. Nearly a score of police officers, who have been having trouble with Japs lately, were present and gave careful attention to the performance in the hope of getting on to some of the tricks.
For nearly an hour the little brown bodies went through the air, describing arcs, paralellograms and great falls, and the crowd, thoroughly aroused to the sport, yelled for more.
As a final test, Mr. Dann, a Jap wrestler from the Central X Club, threw four comers and won a beautiful banner for his club as a souvenir of the occasion.
The boys of the U.S.C. gave clever exhibitions of catch-as-catch-can wrestling, but their work, while excellent for their training, did not have the finish of the Oriental juggling matches.
When the last thud had “died away” and the last throw had occurred, the crowd left, and pedestrians in the neighborhood of the auditorium were astounded to see dignified business men, policemen and Japs going down the street hugging one another for dear life and attempting to practice jiu jitsu.
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