The Southern California
Official Organ of the Associated Students, University of Southern California
Vol. VIII
Los Angeles, California, Tuesday, October 24, 1916
No. 21
IS
Baseball Captain Reviews Game with Utah, and Declares that “A Medium Heavy Team will Always Outplay a Fast Light One.”
F.ddie Marxen, captain of the U. S.
C.	baseball team, manager of athletics, law student, football player, shot putter and erstwhile first lieutenant of company C, is home from his five-months service with the California national guards on the Mexican border. Marxen was advanced to the captaincy of the company two weeks ago, when the former captain resigned, owing to ill health.
"I will enter U. S. C. law school as soon as 1 am free from service,” said Eddie when seen at the regimental headquarters in the soldier camp at Exposition park yesterday. “I would like to enter now, but the regiment will be here three weeks, then will follow a series of 30-day furloughs. I will of course not be able to play football this season, but will sure get into the baseball game later on.
“Yes. I saw the Utah game Saturday. Our team is light, but they did fine. In my opinion a medium heavy team will always outplay a fast light one.”
Janies McKnight of the Law School and lieutenant of Company B of the Seventh Regiment was transferred to the “regulars.”
“McKnight will not return to college until late this term,” said Marxen.
Victor Torrance, former “prep” school student served under Captain Marxen all summer.
The “Cap” said. “Torrance proved to be a good soldier, considering his youth.”
Reporters Shy When Faced by Awful Sixteen
Sixteen! Not necessarily a sweet sixteen, if one accepts the verdict of many journalism students, but a decidedly clever sixteen at that. Each be-rib-boned with a black silk ribbon. And every once in a while when some one is playing with one of the sixteen, one of forty-eight fingers pats the ribbon lightly.
Some journalism students witnessed the advent of the new playmates with decided antagonism. One hurried away so fast that his shadow made long strides in an unavailing attempt to catch up with him.
“Sixteen typewriters,” he exclaimed. And I can’t even make my fingers work a mouth organ. There is one advantage, however,” he mused, “in having typewriters—the printers won’t have any excuse for reading on my handwritten copy such words as ‘the mud-slinging piano’ when I wrote ‘the mild singing soprano.’ ”
WITH A SAND BAG DENTAL FRESHMEN WIN ANNUAL BOUT
The juniors and freshmen of the College of Dentistry held a “sac!' contest” oil Bovard Field Friday afternoon to establish class supremacy, in which the freshmen won. Such contests to decide muscular superiority have come to be an institution with Dental, but never before have the juniors been defeated.
The event was scheduled as a pushball contest, but through a mistake in plans the push-ball was busy elsewhere settling matters of like nature, so that the sack contest was the eleventh hour substitute. Five strong sacks full of sawdust were piled in the center of the field, the opposing classes lined up at either end. The winning class was to carry three of the five back to its own line. Two fifteen-minute halves were played.
M. (, Planck, ’18, suffered a broken fibula in the second half, which was the tj 111 y serious injury sustained; but the appearance of the field to a by-I slander was suggestive of a European
battlefield.
I Aftei the game was over, the ban-I ''ers the freshmen had strung be-I tween their goal posts were finally
I secured by the juniors.
REAL GOBLINS WILL E
“Real ghosts will walk on the night of Oct. 27,” said Wendell La Due, a members of the committee which is planning the party to be held in the gymnasium Friday night at 7:30 o’clock.
The Hallowe’en committee have been using their brains this last week under the direction of Miss Esther Welch, student body social chairman, in an effort to plan a party that will be interesting to any student of the university.
The gymnasium will be decorated to represent an old-fashioned barn, with pumpkins, corn stalks, straw, and cobwebs as a background for the ghosts which will do deeds of rolic and foolishness there. La Due says the other colleges are planning to attend. Everyone is asked to mask. Fancy costumes are in order.
Booths will be placed near the door for the distribution of confetti and popcorn. The tennis court and the auditorium are to be used for various parts of the program, though the committee refuses to tell just what part. According to La Due, Hallowe’en games of the most “spooky” character are to be played.
TROJANS DEFEATED BY UTAH; MALETTE MAKES LONG GAINS
The fastest and most spectacular game ever seen in the south was played Saturday afternoon at Fiesta Park, when the University of Utah squad defeated the Trojan varsity by the score of 27 to 12.
Very soon after the game had started the two thousand spectators present knew that the Trojans were up against a real football team, and that the only question was how many times the visitors could run the ball across the opponents’ goal.
♦	The Utah machine played a wonderful game of American football. From start to finish their plays went off in rapid-fire action. Every man played a perfect game and the ball was continually headed toward U. S. C.’s goal. Their only weaknesses were their over-anxiety, and holding, for which they received several penalties.
The first quarter ended with the score 0 to 0, but with the ball on the Trojans’ 20-yard line. The Utes started the second quarter by carrying the ball over the varsity’s line for the first touchdown. From then on the ball was always headed toward U. S. C.’s goal. The few times it came into the Trojans’ hands, it was immediately kicked back to the northerners. The Varsity was unable to make any progress against the strong defensive line of the northerners. Near the middle of the same quarter the Utah squad again pushed the ball over the southerners' line for the second score. Both touchdowns were converted, and the score board read 14 to 0 in favor of Utah. The hopes of the southerners began to fade and very few still had the spunk to say that the varsity would ever see the northerners’ well-guarded goal.
Near the end of the second quarter the spectators were brought yelling to their feet by “Rabbit” Malette dodging through the opponents’ line for a 90-yard run to a touchdown for the varsity. Such runs are mostly in fairy tales, but thoy were in reality Saturday. Malette received the ball on a long kick from the Utes and started dodging and sliding through the opponents’ defense. After all the northerners had taken a shot at him he was still oil his feet and moving, and he kept moving until the ball was planted squarely between the posts of Utah’s (Continued on Page 4)
‘FROSH’ LOSE GAME TO SAN DIEGO TEAM
Defeat of U. S. C. Freshmen Comes Only After Hard Battle With San Diego Team
By a score or ten to seven, the U. S. C. freshmen football team went down to defeat at the hands of the San Diego high school eleven on the latter’s field, Friday afternoon. The highly-educated toe of Garber, of the southern eleven, was the cause of the Trojan babes’ downfall. His punts throughout the game averaged fifty-five yards, and it was bis place-kick from the 34-yard line which broke the 7-7 tie, and also the hearts of the fre.shmen.
Each team scored one touchdown, and in both cases the score came as the result of an intercepted forward pass. Hamilton, for the frosh, intercepted a pass on the 50-yard line and after a spectacular run, placed the ball between the enemies’ goalposts.
The freshmen played well on the defense. San Diego only made first down once in the first half. The head-work was not of a very high order. Captain Mueller’s playing was especially good.
JUNIOR ASSESSMENTS DUE, SAYS HARTFORD
Junior class dues and El Rodeo assessments are now payable, according to the junior treasurer, Emile Hartford. Mr. Hartford will be in the students’ exchange between the 8:55 and 10:45 periods on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and from 11:40 to 12:30 every day. Class dues are 50 cents and the El Rodeo assessment is four dollars and a half.
Subscriptions for F.I Rodeo will be taken from other classes this week.
Subscriptions for El Rodeo will be taken this week upon the payment of half the price per copy. SETTLEMENT WORKER TO ADDRESS Y. W. C. A. TODAY
Miss Catherine Hillman will preside over the meeting of the Y. W. C. A. today. Miss Hillman has been prominent in Spanish and Italian settlement work in the city for the past few years. The speaker will relate the stories told to her by the girls of their home life across the water, and also her own experiences in her work in the city. In addition to this there will be a program of special music.
SOCIOLOGISTS TO
HOLD FIRST CLUB
MEETING TOMORROW
The Southern California Sociological Society will hold its regular meeting Wednesday evening at 7:30 o’clock in East Hall. The program will consist of a sociological contest, after which ten minutes will be given over to business; Miss Edna Sedweek will sing a solo; an address on “Possibilities” will be given by Mr. Clifford Burr; “Within the Law” will be read by Miss Helenita Lieberg; and “ I he Social Achievements ami Attitudes of the Presidential Candidates” will be spoken on by several students. Mr Elmer Nelsen, Mr. James Proctor Knott, Mr. Donald Smith and Mr. Reul Olson. To close the meeting Alma Mater will be sung.
Everyone who may be interested, is invited to come.