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California
Vol. XI
Los Angeles, California, Tuesday, January 6, 1920
No. 38
Fraternity and Class Basketball Teams to be Organized Soon
COACH SUPPORTS PLAN
Varsity Basketball Team May Hook Up With University of Arizona Quintet
FROSH PARTY SCHEDULED FOR FRIDAY EVENING
Graduate Manager Henry Bruce and Coach Elmer Henderson have not arranged a basketball schedule yet, but expect to have the varsity team playing regular games within a month. However, if the wish of Coach Henderson is fulfilled, there will be inter-fraternity games before the varsity schedule.
Inter-Fraternity Schedule.
The coach wishes to have an interfraternity council formed immediately in order that a basketball schedule can be drawn up for the fraternities. He is willing to help this council, if it is formed, with suggestions as to the procedure of forming a schedule and other matters that would fall into the council’s hands. Graduate Manager Bruce also expressed himself in favor of forming this interfraternity council.
As soon as “Prexy” Claude Reeves returns from his sojourn in the East, Coach Henderson will ask him to help form this inter-fraternity council. The non-fraternity men will also be represented in this basketball schedule.
The interfraternity games should be played before the varsity schedule starts, so that the coach can get a line on all the promising players turned out by the fraternities, according to Graduate Manager Bruce.
May Play Arizona The basketball team has an invitation to play Arizona, and the advisability of accepting it is now under consideration, according to Graduate Manager Bruce. The “Wildcats” are yery anxious to play the Trojans and
n expected that U. S. C. will accept.
-\o other games have been arranged definitely yet, as Graduate Manager "ruce is waiting for the A. A. U. to announce the tournaments they expect to hold. If the A. A. U. has ne customary tournaments, it is prob-u i that U. S. C. will play in one them, if the freshman team proves j*s good as the varsity, it will also
The freshman party, scheduled for Friday night, January 9, at the Y hut, is causing quite a commotion among the Peagreeners. Jazz bands will play and some very clever skits are prom ised. “The Census Faker” is an original conception of a snappy way to get acquainted.
Great preparations are being made for this important event in freshman society. The entertainment committee is busy on the the program and the refreshment committee is working overtime.
All freshman men who have had any experience playing in jazz bands, are requested to see Kenyon Trengrove before Wednesday noon. The party assessment will be 25c. The program will be announced later. The Y hut will be decorated in suitable colors.
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Dean B. Cromwell, former S. C. track coach, will return to coach this year’s track team, if negotiations now under consideration prove successful, President George F. Bovard announced yesterday afternoon. The final arrangements have not been completed, but the important facts are that Cromwell will come south from his home in Salem, Oregon, for February, March and April, and devote his whole time toward making this year’s Trojan team the best in the history of amateur sports. The president stated that the terms of the contract were favorable to each party.
Track Prospects Bright Captain Gwynn Wilson of the track team stated. “With Dean B. Cromwell back coaching the squad. S. C. has chances for winning the championship and perhaps sending representatives to the Olympic meet at Antwerp, Belgium. He has the faculty for getting the maximum out of his men. Moreover, Coach Cromwell has proved that he is one of the most loyal supporters the Cardinal and Gold ever had. He lias kept me advised as to the events to run the men in to get the best results. I am sure that with Cromwell on the job. U. S. C. will make a name for itself.”
Has Trained Champions Coach Cromw’ell, while at U. S. C., has developed Earl Thompson, world champion, who was the first man to run the high hurdles under 15 seconds; Howard Drew, joint-holder of the world’s record in the century; Fred Kelly, world’s champion high hurdler, and Charlie Paddock, world’s champion in the 200 meter dash.
Henry Bruce, graduate manager of athletics, said:
“With the wealth cf material IT. S. C. has it would be unfortunate if we did not have a man equal to any in the west to coach our track team Certainly Mr. Cromwell is of that caliber.”
U. S. C. was represented at Hollywood High School’s Home Coming Day, December 31, 1919, not only by numbers, but by the quality of the performances of those representing the Trojan institution. Kennedy Ells worth opened the day for U. S. C. by extolling its merits in the face of the eulogies given by members of other colleges and universities.
Marjorie Hitzler and Eleanor Cole were the managers of the skit en titled “One of Her Own,” given at the afternoon vaudeville as U. S. C.’s contribution. Gertrude Rothe, as the leading lady; George Boeck, as the savage chief, and the wonderful “jazz’ furnished by other members of the cast, made the skit one of the best of the afternoon.
George Boeck starred at the basketball game between the Alumni and the high school, which was won by the Alumni.
PADDOCK GIVEN TITLE OF SPRINTING CHAMPION
Charley “Monty” Paddock, of Mon tenegro, Pasadena, and U. S. C., has been chosen by the A. A. U. as a member of the mythical All-American track team and also of the All-College squad. Paddock has been picked on both teams as the 100-yard expert.
The recognition thus given Paddock by the A. A. U. officially gives the title of American sprinting champion to him. Others were picked to run the 220, although the U. S. C. athlete has never been defeated in that event.
Fred Kelly, formerly of U. S. C., and one of the Trojan university’s best known athletes, was chosen as high hurdler for the All-American team, taking the place of Bob Simpson, holder of the world record in the high sticks event, who recently turned professional. Kelly won the hurdles in the Olympic games, held at Stockholm, Sweden, in 1912. In the big interallied meet, held at Paris last June and July, he finished in second place, just a few scant inches behind Simpson.
CASUALTY LISTED DURING
WORK ON NEW BUILDING
Exciting things happened on the site of the new Administration building yesterday.
One of the large steel girders, which will form part of the skeleton of the new structure, was dropped in the process of unloading and slightly bent. While straightening out the kink wiih a sledge-hammer, one of the laborers playfully tapped a helper on the head, giving the latter a vacation for the rest of the day.
CHR16TMAS PARTY
Kappa Delta entertained with a Christmas dancc the last Friday evening before vacation.
COLLEGE STUDENTS OF FORTY NATIONS
U. S. C. Delegates Returning From Student Volunteer Convention in Des Moines
SKATE AND SLEIGH-RIDE
Sherwood Eddy Delivers Notable Address—Entire Convention Is Very Impressive
(Special Wire to The Trojan)
By Florence Nicholson
DES MOINES, Iowa, Jan. 4.—Twenty-four University of Southern California students, who have been attending the Student Volunteer convention, which closed here today, will arrive home in Los Angeles Thursday evening. The U. S. C. delegates are returning by way of the Grand Canyon.
The weather during the convention week was very cold, and skating and a sleigh ride were novel features of the entertainment provided for the Californians.
The 800 delegates attending the convention subscribed a total of $176,-000 to carry on the work of the Student Volunteer movement. Forty different nations were represented at the convention.
Sherwood Eddy was perhaps the most impressive of all the speakers who addressed the volunteers. The topics on which he spoke were, “The Place of America in Reconstruction,” “Individual Responsibility,” “A Challenge—Get Off the Sidelines, Get Into the Game!”
The final service was one of the finest of the entire week.
The U. S. C. representatives are enthusiastic over the interesting trip from Los Angeles to Des Moines.
By Florence A. Gilbert
“On the world’s boat,” is an old saying which may in some measure express the feelings of the 24 Trojans who represented U. S. C. at the great Student Volunteer Convention now in session at Des Moines. To assemble with eight thousand students representing forty nations,— such has been the experience of the delegates from this institution who left Saturday morning, December 27, for Des Moines, Iowa, on a chartered car for the delegates of Southern California colleges and universities. Large Assembly The convention this year was one of the biggest and best ones ever held in the United States. It was originally planned for such an assembly once every four years, but the world war and other conditions made it impossible for the Student Volunteern to convene four years ago; hence the convention this year afforded an opportunity for world leaders to present ideas for which they have been seek-
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