Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-21
SPELLING PRIZE
TO HORACE MANN
Thirty-five Girls in Word Con-
test at the High School
Auditorium.
NINE ARE UNDEFEATED
These Will Try Conclusions Next Fri
day for the Individual Honors
of Match.


ner of the McCabe silver loving cup
awarded in the spelling match for girls
that took place last evening at the
high school auditorium. Four hundred
people were present. At IL o'clock,
after more than $500 words had been
presented to the 35 contestants, nine
of the girls still were standing. They
were Ida Consulbaume and Dorothy
Nelson, Hawthorne; Elsie Paul and
Eunice McGucken, Lincoln; Marjorie
Graham and Eva Hildebrandt, Long
fellow, and Ruth McGinnis, Clara An
derson and Myrtle Palmgren, Horace
Mann school
At 10:5 so Superintendent H. B. Hay
den, officiating as Judge, called con-
ference of the teachers who acted as
board of judges for the contest, and
after consulting with the undefeated
girls, it was decided to postpone the
contest for a week. Monday additional
words will be assigned to these girls
from the spelling book, and they will
be given a chance to look over them
during the week in preparation for the
conclusion Friday.
Deciding the Winner.
At the conclusion of the contest last
night it was not known just which
school was ahead, of if any had won,
but shortly after the close Professor
E. L. Philbrook, who was official scor-
er, announced that Horace Mann
school, with a total of Al points and
three girls still standing, could not be
defeated, and accordingly was entitled
to first honors.
The points are scored in the spelling
contest as follows: The first girl to
miss scores one point for her school,
the second two points, and so on up,
each one missing scoring one more
point than the one who failed previous
to her. There were 35 contestants in
the match last night, 26 of whom miss
ed Inasmuch as the two girls of Hor
ace Mann who missed scored AZ points
for their school, and there are still
three girls unconquered. Horace Mann
can score no less than 131 points, even
if those girls are the next three to
miss The closest that any school can
come is 126 points, which can be scor-
ed by Hawthorne school. which now
has Sc points and two girls standing. /
Scoring the highest number possible, |
"a and So, would make the Hawthorne |
total 125 points, or less than Horace /
Mann school.
All that remains now is for the girls |
to work for the individual prizes to |
be awarded to the last three girls to |
miss Number 50 will be given a Wa
terman fountain pen; number "a, de |
luxe edition of "Old School Day Ro- /
by James Whitcomb Riley; |
SO, solid silver souvenir spoon, in
the bowl of which is a Rock Island
high school engraving.
Spell for Three Hours.
At the match last night the 35 girls
took their places on the enlarged plat
form at 7:45, and at S o'clock Mr. Hay
den announced the first word. For al
most three hours the spelling continu-
ed, and because of exhaustion of those
then, it was feared that they
would fail on words which they could
easily spell. The entire list
Of 1,S00 words was gone through and
then 500 more of the same list were
spelled again.
The work of the girls in the contest
was excellent and the teachers and Mr..
Hayden are very much pleased with
the results of it. The points scored by
the schools were as follows:
Hawthorne, sc, two girls standing.
Eugene Field, 81. no girls standing.
Kemble, 81, no girls standing
Irving, rs, no girls standing.
Lincoln, %, two girls standing.
Longfellow, 80, two girls standing.
Horace Mann, Al, three girls stand
ing.
The girls comprising the victorious
Horace Mann school are: Ruth Nc
Clara Anderson, Myrtle Palm
gren, Wilma Bohman. Nellie Brien;
Esther Boquist, alternate. Color, or
ange.