Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1910-05-05
VICTORIES FOR MINERAL POINT
Result of Oratorieai Contest at Monroe.
Eight High Schools Represented.
Last Saturday a Great Day for Athletics
in Our City,
THE CONTEST

llIE EONlfNls
Well. at last the great League contes
is thing of the past.
Miss Inez Piquet of Platteville, ant
Frank Denniger of Darlington, vii
represent the league in the Distric
contest at Platteville, Friday evening
May 49,
Blanche and Osmon Fox tied for th'
position of alternate, or the privilege o.
representing the League if either of the
representatives is unable to goto Platte
Vile on May 10.
There sesms TO be considerable mis-
understanding as TO what we did at
Monroe. Many cannot see why we are
able to say that Blanche and Osmon
took third place, and yet we are unable
to say which of the others took first
place and which took second.
We are confronted with rather
difficult problem as there were sixteen
speakers We feared that to have the
Judges attempt to decide as to the
merit of so many at one time might
result in great injustice TO some of the
speakers as the program would continue
almost four hours.
We FIRST tried to divide into two con
tests, one for boys and one for girls but
could not because of the fact that one
school was represented by two girls.
We then divided the contestants into
| two groups cone speaker from each
SCHOOL, and decided to have the judges
decide ON the first, second, and third
places IN each group separately with the
understanding that the one who took
first place in each group should repre-
sent the league at Platteville, and in
case the one receiving first place in
either group could not go to Platteville,
the one receiving second place in that
group should go,
There are many objections TO such a
plan, but after more than an hour Of
debate the eight Principals decided that
| it was the best we could do
The first group was as follows
Ths Death Of Lafayette,
Harry staifacher Monroe
The dount Of Laws, Frst Place
- Frank Denniger, Darlington
The Prisoners Plea,
Arthur wichmann, Belmont
The Conyicts Violin.
Mabel stringer, Cuba City
The Revolt 81 Mother Third Place
Fern Lawyer Hazel Green
Her First Appearance
Frances Whaley Benton
The Union Soldier
Harry Forehand. platteyille
The Little Stowaway, Second Place
Blanche Fox Mineral Point
The second group was as follows:
Heart OF Old Hickory,
Vincent Byrlie, Hazel Green
College oil Cans
VERNE Hughes, Belmont
The Night Run OF the Overland
Aleta welley, Cuba City
| Her First Appearance, Third Place
Mona Hoskin, Darlington
The SLOW Man, Second Place
Osmon Fox Mineral Point
Colnor's son
Mabel Ward Monroe
Bobbie shaftoc. First Place
lneh flIuetti IhttFNilN
John Sheel, Benton
The last speaker did not leave tn,
platform until after twelve.
We have every reason to feel proud
of the showing made by these two
young people who put up such noble
fight for the school
While we are anxious that nothing
should keep either Of the representative
from going to Platteville we should b.
proud to see either Blanche or Osmoi
among the speakers at Platteyille. w
shall keep them both in training.
The league will need to be divides
before another year, as 50 many school
are going into the work that the pro
, graz too long
For several years we have found !
difficult to get the boys to 20 into tn
home contest If they were obliged +
compete with girls. We have therefore
had boys and girls contest In tn
| League and District contests, however
the boys were obliged to compete wit
the girls. Hereafter the Boys an
| Girls contest will De kept separate.
II The boys will be obliged to spea
| selections that are Of the nature Of a
| grafton, while the girls will selec
/ destinations.
II The judges at Monroe were Sup
Il Converse Of Beloit Supt. Rames (
II Freeport; and Professor Nelson, Of tn
: University
Supt Loyelaud had an urgent inyita
: ton to act as Judge at GAINESVILLE La
Friday evening, at their league contet
at which GAINESVILLE, Beloit, Evansville
and Whitewater were to compete b.
chose to 20 with his own speakers
Monroe.
ATHLETICS
Saturday was great day for athletic
in Mineral Point We defeated Dai
hnqton in both the track meet and ba
game. The bah game resulted ia Il
score 81 10 to 3 in favor Of Miner
Point. The track meet resulted in
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