Gilpin observer., 1910-03-03
THE PUBLIC SCHOOL

tion from Superintendent Matthews,
Of the Black Hawk schools, to attend
the Medal Day exercises of the Black
Hawk schools on Friday afternoon,
March 25th.
Miss Mary F. Rausch, head of the
Domestic Science department of the
State Agricultural college, visited the
schools on Monday. Miss Rausch ad.
dressed the high school in the morn
ing, the sewing classes at eleven
O'Clock and the members of the Wo-
mems club and others interested in
the work at 1 80 o'clock. Her talks
were we'll received and the work and
school she represented will be better
and more favorably known in Central
City as the result of her visit. Super
intendent Frances 'Mayhew and Miss
Katherine Miller, head of the domes-
tic science department of the Cen
trail schools worked untiringly and
very successfully in creating public
interest in the visit of Miss Rausch,
with the result that large number
of visitors braved the blizzard to be
present for the afternoon session.
Miss Rausch has just completed
trip of several weeks duration in
which she has visited practically
every high school in the state. She
stated that she found but one high
school in the state with better
library than the Central school and
after visiting the various classes
spoke in most complimentary terms
of the work being done here. The
| teachers are especially gratified that
such an opinion should come from
one who has had exceptional oppor-
tunity to compare the work of the
various high schools. Miss Rausch
says the Agricultural college will
have an enrolment of 1000 in two
years as a result of new management
and more aggressive field work.
The basket ball games Saturday
night were witnessed by good crowd
and proved to be quite interesting.
The Alumni stars put up fine
game but were handicapped by lack
of practice and the fast high school
team defeated them by score of 10
to 2. Miss Fullerton and Miss Anger
as forwards made good use of the
ball whenever they got it, but the
high school defense was too strong
to give them much chance to show
what they could do. Miss Richards
at center played fine game consider
ing that she was playing against a
center who is something less than
seven feet tall. Miss Driscoll and
Miss Malet played well at guard keep
ing the high school score below the
ming center sustained her former
good reputation for playing that posi-
tion but was handicapped on account
of lack of signal work on the part
of her team. The Alumni desire
another game soon and predict that
they will show the high school how
to play basket ball If they get an
other chance at them. The game with
Castle Rock was characterized by nice
team work on the part of the visitors
and very loose work on the part of
Central. The score at the end of the
first half was IL to 4 in favor of
Castle Rock, and Central seemed to
have a good chance for the game yet,
but before the end of the second half
the better endurance of the visitors
told in big chunks and the game clos
ed with the score "a to in favor
of the farmer boys. The loose play
ing Of the Central team is partly due
to lack OF practice during the past
two weeks. On account of a lack OF
financial backing on the part Of the
town 1t has been necessary to re-
strict the hall rent to two evenings
per week and the lack of practice
soon shows itself in the games. How
ever the Castle Rock game was an
improvement on the Arvada game as
will be seen by comparing the scores.
Arvada ran up a score Of Al points
against Central on the home field
while Castle Rock made only "a
points, yet Castle Rock defeated Ar
vada two weeks ago. Tis would indi-
cate that Central lost Saturday night
on account Of failure OF the forwards
and center to locate the baskets, the
work Of the guards being first class.
The score book verifies this showing
that but eight points were made off
Of the guards leaving 16 points
chargeable to loose guarding by other
players. "Play you man." is the only
countersign that will admit them to