The Southern California.
Track Meet Friday With Hollywood
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Official Organ of tha Astociatrd Student*. University of Southern California
Vol. IX
Los Angeles, California, Tuesday, February 12, 1918
No. 26
S.C. TRACKSTERS COP HONORS IN PRACTICE MEET
Trojan Athletes Take All But Two First Places in Practice Meet
POLY OUTSCORED, 2 TO 1
George Family Cops First Two Places In the Mile Run
Taking first place ln every event, with the exception of the 100 and 220-yard dashes, Dean Cromwell’s speedy track athletes walloped the Polytechnic high school stars by a 79 to 43 score on Bovard Field Saturday. George Schiller, the lanky Mechanic, was the prep who defeated the Trojans in the sprints.
In the field events, the collegiand had little trouble, winning over three points to the preps’ one.
Two of ’Em
Lewis George, kid brother of the captain of the Trojan team followed ln his brother’s footsteps and grabbed second place ln the mile jaunt. Noel won both the mile and the half without much trouble.
Reavis of the University high school, took second ln both the sprints for U. S. C.
Curtin, he of the fiery hair, took first ln the 440.
Bryant, Trojan freshman, leaped 22 feet in the broad jump, winning with ease.
DOES DISTANCE LEND
I YES!
GIRL HORSEBACK RIDERS TAKE TRIPS TWICE EACH MONTH
Distance apparently lends , enchantment, judging from the distance at least two young women students have come to attend U. S. C. this semester. One young woman comes from China, where she has been as a missionary. She will return there after finishing her course here at the University. Another young woman is visiting here ln the states from England.
So far thirty new women students have registered with Mrs. Mackey. Part of these are transfers, while others are just from high schools.
Every woman student was asked at the time she registered to select from a list given her the activities she intended following. The list is as follows: Athletics, literary clubs, debating, music, dramatics, social, Y. M.
C.	A., Red Cross or Trojan work. GIRLS’ TENNIS TEAM
REPLICIA OF HO8TE8S HOUSE FEATURES Y. W. C. A. PROGRAM
University women are being offered a spendld opportunity in the form of horseback riding, but so far the interest has not bee nail that it might have been.
The classes have been organized to ride on the first and third Fridays of each month. The hour may be changed if enough girls want to ride on other days, however.
The horses may be hired for two hours, for the price ot $1.00.
All girls who wish to ride are requested to hand their names to Mrs. Mackey, or, if she is out, to slip their names under her door, this week if possible.
U. S. C. Students Winning Honors In Tenuis Games
U. S. C. tennis players have been winning honors in the several opening days of play in the clay court championship series of Southern California, held on the Hotel Leighton tennis courts.
Miss Ruth Browne was victorious in a set with Miss Beth Ballardin the first day’s play last Saturday. The score was a 6-3, 6-4. This match was one of the snappiest and best-played of the day.
Jessie Grieve, three times winner of the city championship, won by default from Miss Mungen.
Bob Rager and Davies, his partner, walloped the Hawks brothers, after a hard-fought battle. The scores were 4-6, 6-4, 6-2. However, in the singles, Rager lost to Ray Greenburg, 4-6, 9-7, 6-3.
In the singles, Harold Blakeslee vanquished Neito, after three matches. The scores were 4-6, 6-4, 6-2. Blakeslee and Ford, in the doubles, were handed a setback by Leon Godshall and Belden. The scores in this match were 7-9, 6-1, 6-3.
Voice Culture Is Furthered In Factory
A large crowd of U. S. C. co-eds gathered in east hall Wednesday at 11:40 o’clock at the invitation of the Y. W. C. A. to visit a replica of the hostess house at Camp Lewis. The “new” and "old” girls took advantage of the opportunity to become acquainted with one another. A short program was given, consisting of violin solos by Ruth List, whistleing solos by Margaret McKee and a dialogue by Margaret Shammel and Rita Lane. The dialogue explained the work of the secretary at the hostess house and told of the coming conference at Pomona, February 15, 1917. Tea and wafers were served.
“Speaking to an unappreciative audience is not the easiest thing in the world,” decided Marie June Dennis and Doris Roesch, two freshmen in th'- College of Oratory, when they spoke, Friday noon, before the girls employed in an overall factory.
The two girls had been sent by the Y. W. C. A. secretary to entertain the factory girls during the lunch hour. There was no platform, and the speakers stood upon one of the work benches. They were visible to about thir# girls, and could not see any more than that number. All the time that the oratory students were trying to read the factory girls were talking and laughing. Some of them kept their machines going and very few of them seemed even to be listening. The readers were forced to shout to make themselves heard at all, and their gestures were completely wasted.
The college girls had been told that their audience was so hardened that it seldom showed its emotions, but would probably ask them to come again.
TROJAN STAFF MEETING
STILL HAVE SIX GAMES TO PLAY
Six games remain to be played by the Trojan 145-pound basketball team before the schedule will have been completed. The first round ln the A. A. U. championships was completed Wednesday evening. So far the lightweights have played in rather haril luck, ail of their games having been lost by a narrow margin of two or three points.
The first game in the second round of play will be staged in the local gymnasium February 15, with Uncle Sam's sailors from the submarine base furnishing the competition. Following this games will be held weekly, with an extra contest with the local Y. M.
C.	A. sandwiched in on March 5.
In addition to the Y. M. C. A. and the “Sub. Base” team, the Trojans will meet the Polytechnic high school ball tossers, the Alhambra Athletic club’s five, and the Los Angeles Athletic club team.
The final game will be with the L. A. A. C. squad on the local floor, March 12.
HOUSEMOTHER LOSES,
There will be a meeting of the members of the Trojan staff, Wednesday at 11:40 in the Journalism building.
BOOK ON STREET CAR
Mrs. Dorothy Lord, housemother of the girls’ dormitory, had her pocket-book stolen Saturday noon, when she was riding on a University street car.
Mrs. Lord was reading a letter when she felt the pocketbook being removed. She immediately turned to the woman sitting beside her, a very well dressed, middle-aged woman, and said:
“You must have mistaken my pocket for your own. You have taken my purse out of my pocket."
"Madam!" said the stranger.
Mrs. Lord called the conductor, saying they could give him the purse and let him settle the affair. The other woman refused to do this, and the conductor said they must both remain on the car until they found a policeman.
“We rode and rode," said Mrs. Lord, "and did not see a policeman.
"All of the pasesngers really believed that I had taken the purse, and
I	did not blame them. The woman looked and acted so convincingly that.
I	almost felt that it was her purse."
After an hour’s ride they saw a policeman on the corner and as Mrs. Lord knew to a penny the amount of money she had ln her purse, and the other woman guessed and missed by ten dollars and a bunch of keys, the purse was given to Mrs. Lord.
Mrs. Lord did not swear out a warrant for the arrest of the woman.
GIRLS’ TENNI8 TEAM TO
GIVE UP NORTHERN TRIP, BUT TO DEFEND 8TATE TITLE
It has been definitely decided that the girls’ tennis team will not take Its usual trip to the north. However, a team will probably go to Ojai to defend the state championship, which U. S. C. now holds.
Y. M. AND Y. W. TO HOLD
JOINT MEETING WEDNESDAY
A joint meeting of the Y. W. C. A. and the Y. M. C. A. will be held at chapel next Wednesday. A prominent speaker will lecture to the students, but bis name cannot be announced as yet. He will speak on the relation of students to war problems.
The Question Is, Was She 25 Or 55?
The hour was late, very late; only the tread of probably two feet broke the stillness of the deserted street.
Out of the stillness came the sound of a man’s voice.
“Halt!” said the voice. From nowhere three men appeared in front of, on the side of, and behind the man who a moment before had been probably the sole occupant of the street.
"Hands up!" said the master of ceremonies.
The hands went up with surprising rapidity.
“Hand over your belongings.’'
Quickly the victim found himself presenting the strangers with his overcoat hat, gloves, and one dollar. There was some discussion about his necktie, but finally that was left undisturbed.
The work took but a moment, and the three men were gone.
Hatless, coatless, and somewhat poorer, the lone man made all haste.
•	• •
“Your name?” questions “Your Honor."
“Riddle, your honor."
“Occupation.”
“Professor of French at the University of Southern California."
It was no other than our friend Professor Riddle, still hatless and coatless, and somewhat breathless.
Later, the hold-up men were arrested, and proved to be the trio who had murdered a man that very evening.
Professor Riddle recovered the overcoat and hat—not the dollar.
One mystery, however, remains unsolved. Was the professor alone when he was relieved of his belongings? A Los Angeles paper distinctly stated that he was escorting a "young lady” home. Professor Riddle Insists that she was fifty-five. The highwaymen refuse to give out any statement.
FORMER VARSITY MAN TO MARRY
Captain Edward Marxen, commander of the One Hundred and Sixtieth Infantry Headquarters company, stationed at Camp Kearney, and one of U. S. C.’b most popular athletes, will be married within the next two or three weeks to Miss Ruth Wright of Glendora. Miss Wright is a cousin of Simeon Hanes, a former rugby and football player at U. S. C.
Eddie entered the University in 1914 and played on the freshman football and baseball teams during his first year. He played on the varsity teaifls in these two sports during his sophomore year and was elected captain of the baseball nine and athletic manager while a junior. During the 1916 football season Eddie was a member of the National Guard, and was cheated out of his third season of football when the well known Mr. Villa of Mexico kicked up a fuss down near the Texas border. He was captain of a company at that time, and was among the first called for service.
Last year, when the National Guard units were taken into the Federal service, Marxen went with his men, and has been In command of a company at Camp Kearney since.
Up until the time of his departure last spring, Marxen was a student at the College of Law. He is a member of Delta Chi.
LIBERAL ARTS SENIORS TO BE IN LAW ANNUAL
Harold Brewster Elected New Head of Senior Clans—Appoints Committee
FRATS. TAKE SPACE
Koenig Speaks Regarding Space Taken In Publication
Liberal Arts seniors are to have their pictures in the “Stare Decisis,” the year-book to be printed by the College of Law. That 1918 seniors are not to pass out unremembered was the decision made by the seniors at their class meeting yesterday.
A committee of three, to confer with the student body representatives, was appointed by the pew president, Harold Brewster. Brewster was elected to succeed Wendell La Due, who has gone to San Francisco to engage in Navy construction work.
Liberal Arts College Is to have a place of prominence in the book. Numerous organizations and fraternl* tics are to have a space in Liberal Arts section.
Liberal Arts students are very anxious to have their college well represented, since it has become a financial impossibility to have a book of their own.
Victor Koenig, president of the student body at Law school spoke to the seniors concerning their space in the book at the class meeting yesterday.
COMPELLED TO DRILL
The University Battalion, numbering 153 students, will soon begin an intensive military program, according to Major 11. L. La Porte.
More stress will be laid on the finer points of the soldier’s game, and less time will be given to drilling.
No definite action has yet been taken concerning the "drafting” of the upper classmen. It is the opinion, however, of the military authorities, that they will be declared exempt from drill.
The ranks of the student battalion were seriously depleted last semester through enlistments in the regular army. It was thought necessary to call iu the upper classmen to assure better results. However, with tbe addition of the new rookies, it seems unnecessary at this time to call upon the "reserves.”
NATIONAL DEFENSE COMMITTEE WANT8 GIRL 8TENOGRAPHER8 WHO WILL DONATE 8ERVICE8
Mrs. Mackey, dean of women of the University desires to know if there are any girls in school who would like to donate their services as stenographers for the Publicity Department of the National Defense ('ommittee. Several girls have already volunteered their services, but more are needed. Some of the work may be done at home, and other at the headquarters of the committee, at 719 South Hill street, of which Mrs. Harmon is chairman.