Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1910-02-11
GRANTS PASS HIGH
.8as DEFEATS KLAMATH
City Team Wins First Of 1910 state
Championship Debates at
Klamath Falls.

telegram Mr.. Turner sent Ihem'
Nothing short of the three votes
success"
The question was Resolved, that
a system of postal savings banks
should be established by the federal
government" The klamath Falls
leam, consisting OF Vernon Motschen-
Dacher, Roy Nelson and Howard
boggs, supported the negative, and
Grants Pass upheld the affirmative.
The judges were Bishop Paddock,
Judge Noland and Judge Benson,
and these men decided unanimously
lor Grants Pass.
lnis victory is certainly an ex-
Cellent beginning this year toward
winning the cup and we have reason
to be proud OF our debating team
lerne Ahern, one of the new mem
bers of the team, came up to our ex-
pectations. Her reasoning and logic
were especially strong.
Enrol Gilkey, the leader Of the
team, had his usual success and was
efficient in every way.
Roubaix Richey proved to be a
very able speaker and delivered his
debate with convincing eloquence.
Miss Barker and Miss Ahern were
entertained at the Telford residence;
Mr. Gilkey and Mr.. Richey at the
Boel home After the debate a re-
ception was given to the visiting
team.
The klamath Falls people put up
very good argument, but their de-
livery was very faulty. Their team
was stronger than either of the
teams our townspeople had the pleas
ure of hearing Grants Pass defeat
last year, although they are not to
be compared with the Pendleton
team which lost at Eugene in May.
Klamath Falls has no reason to be
ashamed of her team, while Grants
Pass should be especially proud that
its representatives can beat such a
strong one
One thing that made winning more
difficult in klamath was the absolute
loyalty of the whole town to their
team. They were more than hospit-
able to the visitors, but those same
visitors felt they had more than a
team to fight. The spirit of Klamath,
that spirit of loyalty, strengthened
their team, but at the same time, in
stead of disheartening our people
1t fired them to greater effort. They
were not pleasure seeking tourists,
but a bunch OF workers last Friday
morning and afternoon. klamath
lost no time In announcing that she
expected to win. However, when
one of the townsmen said so, Miss
Barker quietly remarked that she
had never brought a licked team
home yet and she hardly thought
this was the time to begin
Friday evening, February IS,
Grants Pass will debate on the same
question with the team from the
Roseburg high school. The debate
will be held in Grants Pass, so let
every citizen come out and see for
himself just what our team is doing
This will be a splendid opportunity
to show your loyalty and manifest
interest and enthusiasm in the high
school, We know this debate will be
a success Intellectually and want It
also to be one financially. Be optim-
istic, think and talk OF nothing but
victory over Roseburg and then.
without doubt, we will have vic
tory.
The winning OF this debate will
determine the championship Of
Southern Oregon, but our team is
not going to stop short OF anything
but the state championship.
The Roseburg girls basket ball
team will come down with the de-
batting team and play here Saturday
night, February 10, at the skating
rink We hope to win from them
too.
Boost for debating and the high
school, boost for Grants Pass, boost
everything. Boost don't knock.
Il IN