LOG OF FULLERTON HIGH SCHOOL GAMES, ETC.

1898

 4/23	Fullerton High defeated Santa Ana High last Saturday, 16-6.  The SAHS
boys were referred to as the "pumpkin rollin' team".

 5/14	"The Fullerton High School nine defeated the Stars [who were they?] on
Saturday, by a score of 10 to 6."

 6/ 3	Fullerton high lost to Westminster last Saturday, 17-9.  FHS has lost
only two games in its season.

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1899

 2/ 3	Fullerton high was to play "a team from Placentia here" tomorrow.

 3/10	"A game of baseball will be played tomorrow at 2 p.m. by the Santa Ana
high school and Fullerton high school nines."

 4/14	"The Fullerton high school team was defeated by the Whittier [College!]
baseball nine last Saturday, the score standing 16 to 5 in favor of the
Whittierites."

 5/ 5	"The high school team defeated the Santa Ana nine Saturday by a score
of 10 to 3."

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All issues missing from 8/18/1899 through 9/7/1901, then:

11/ 9	"The Long Beach high school baseball team defeated the Fullerton nine
Saturday [11/2] by a score of 7 to 4."

11/30	"The Long Beach high school baseball team mopped the face of the earth
with the Fullerton high school nine Saturday [11/23], the score being 21 to 3.
Boys, you must do better or stop playing ball."

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1902

There were frequent mentions all year of the Fullerton High School team, capped
by the 6/14 victory over Redlands for the "Southern California Interscholastic"
title.

11/20	"Oil well nine defeated Fullerton high school team in a ball game here
Saturday afternoon [11/15].  The locals played a good game but were unable to
hold the oil lads down at the bat.  Score, 7 to 6."

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1903

There is, once again, fairly regular coverage of the Fullerton high school
team, although the names of the players aren't usually mentioned.  Archibald
was the only pitcher mentioned.  Teams played included Santa Ana, Riverside,
San Bernardino and Ontario.

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1904

There was no news at all of baseball in most issues of the FT.

 6/ 9	FT --	"The ball teams of the Norwalk and Fullerton high schools
crossed bats on the local grounds Saturday [6/4], the visitors winning by a
score of 5 to 0."  [This report of a NORWALK HS, which I found after the story
of the 1905 game, tends to confirm that there was indeed a high school there!]

11/17	"The high school boys have organized a base ball team, with Wm. Yaeger
as manager, and is ready to challenge surrounding high school nines for match
games."

12/ 1	In a SAHS football game, the left tackle is listed as "G. Coleman".

12/24	WN --	Under "La Habra News":

"The La Habra baseball team crossed bats Saturday last [12/17] with the
Fullerton high school team.  The La Habra boys were holding a winning point in
the game until the third inning, when Clarence Nunamaker, the pitcher, hurt two
of his fingers and then he threw the game away.  The boys feel confident they
will stand up all right when the Fullerton boys come to La Habra two weeks from
today."  [A 12/31 game, if that was what this article was referring to, was
probably cancelled due to the rains which fell 12/30.]

[The Reference librarian at La Habra public library says La Habra High School
didn't come into existence until 1954.  Until then La Habra kids commuted to
Fullerton High.  This was obviously some kind of informally-organized team.
In some of the other La Habra columns, there are references to the "boys"
playing the "married men".]

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1905

 1/ 7	WN --	The Whittier HS team, which had no home ball field, "obtained
the privilege to practice on the grounds at Los Nietos."  WHS is a member of
the "Los Angeles County Scholastic Athletic League", a schedule of whose games
appears in this issue.  It doesn't include any Orange County schools, or Downey
HS, but it does include Long Beach HS, which was mentioned by some old-timers
as a FHS opponent during 1905.  The schedule runs Saturdays from 2/4 to 5/20.

 1/14	The Fullerton High School game as reported in the 1/19 FT:

"Fullerton high school nine defeated La Habras in that valley Saturday by a
score of 7 to 0.  Batteries, Fullerton, Chas. Hansen and Arthur Hartung; Hansen
bottled up the valley lads, not allowing them to make a hit."

and in the 1/21	WN, under "La Habra News":

"The La Habra boys crossed bats with the Fullerton boys Saturday last and were
defeated by a score of 7 to 0.  The boys have confidence if they can get their
full team together that they can stand a fair chance.  They have always had to
play without from two to four of their best men.  Next time they will have a
full line-up."

 1/28	AG --	In a track meet between SA & Anaheim high schools, "Coleman"
placed second in the shot put!

 2/18	FT --	"In a ball game here Saturday between the high school teams of
Norwalk and this place the former were victorious by a score of 7 to 3.  The
battery for the home team was Hanson, Johnson and Collins..."  [According to
the Norwalk public library AND the Downey historical society, there wasn't any
Norwalk high school until many years later!?]  No details of this game and very
little coverage of subsequent FHS games.  There is, however, regular and
interesting coverage of Santa Ana HS' games, usually taken from the SA Blade.
Today, for instance, SAHS and the SA Elks played to a 1 to 1 tie.  "G. Coleman"
pitched 11 innings.  Cravath and Dungan, obviously the Elks' big stars, were
missing from their lineup.  SAHS will be playing Orange HS and Long Beach HS in
coming weeks.

 2/25	FT --	SAHS beat Whittier 2-1 with Coleman pitching an 11-inning four-
hitter, and LBHS 8-2, also a 4-hitter by Coleman, who got several hits.  SAHS
was charging 25 cents admission to their games!  Sometimes stories lag an issue
or two behind, so it's never quite clear when a game was played.  Maybe one of
these games was on Washington's Birthday?  (LBTe has LBHS game as 2/25)

 3/12  FT --	There were heavy rains so apparently no baseball activity this
weekend.  1.19", according to LBTr.

 3/19  FT --	Again, there was much rain and no mention of baseball.  2.63",
according to LBTr.

 3/25  FT --	SAHS beat Riverside 2-1, with Coleman allowing 6 hits and
fanning 14.  No news of any other baseball games this weekend.

 4/ 8	FT --	SAHS lost to Occidental College 5-2.  "Next Sunday [?] the
local boys will play the Fullerton High School team on the local grounds."

 4/15	FT --	FHS 0, @ SAHS 0, 15 inn.  The whole "story" follows...

"A fast game of amateur baseball was witnessed at Santa Ana Saturday when clubs
from the Fullerton and Santa Ana high schools contested the second of a series
of games to be played for the championship of Orange County.  Brilliant work in
the field and box were features of the game.  Fifteen innings were played
without either side scoring.  Batteries:  Fullerton, Johnson and Williams;
Santa Ana, Coleman and Wilkinson."

	AG --	"A tie score of zero to zero after fifteen innings of good
playing by each team was the outcome of a baseball game at Santa Ana on
Saturday between a team from that town and the Fullerton high schools.  The
boys say it was one of the best games ever played there.  Santa Ana made seven
hits and Fullerton two.  Johnson for Fullerton struck out 27 men, Coleman of
Santa Ana, 18.  The game was almost errorless, both schools getting in good
team work.  The tie will be played off at a return game."

 5/18	FT --	Members of the 1905 graduating class are listed.  Among them is
Charles Hansen, who pitched the no-hitter against La Habra.

 5/21	FT --	SAHS will be playing "State School", Poly High of LA, and
finally LAHS on 6/3 for the state championship!

 5/27	FT --	SAHS beat Poly, 1-0, with Coleman pitching a 1-hitter, fanning
15, and driving in the only run!

 6/ 3	FT --	SAHS beat LAHS, 1-0.  Another 1-hitter for Coleman.  500 people
were in attendance as SAHS "won the honor of being hailed as the undisputed
champion of Southern California."

Hank's only contemporary information on Walter's high school games, at least in
the word processor files he gave me, is from the Santa Ana Evening Blade.
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	THE NEWS SOURCES:

AG --	The Anaheim Gazette, published every Thursday.
FT  --	The Fullerton Tribune, published every Thursday.
LBTe --	The Long Beach Daily Telegram, published every afternoon except
	Sunday.
LBTr -- The Long Beach Evening Tribune.  Similar to LBTe.
WN  --	The Whittier News, "published every Saturday".  There was a
	regular column headed "The Valley", which included news items
	from Rivera, La Habra, etc.  In March, 1905, it became the
	Daily News.  It was then [usually] published every day except
	Sunday.  2 cents a copy.  8 pages.