Arizona republican., 1913-03-10
PHOENIX TEAM
 BEST SETTLERS
Ten Pupils From Grammar School Department Win in Contest Against Tempe, Mesa, Chandler, Osborn and Training School

Ten pupils representing the gram mar department of the Phoenix public schools returned from Tempe Sat urday afternoon with a new cham pionship record and four scalps dang ling at their belts. For at least one month the team of ten can lay just claim to having in it's personnel the best spoilers in MariCopa county. All as a result of the first Maricopa County Grammar School spelling contest, held in Tempe Saturday morning with five teams participant ing.
 Of the five teams entered, four were of ten pupils each, and one of nine pupils All contestants were represented by numbers so that in judging the papers there was no op- portunity for favoritism. County Superintendent J. A. Higgins select ed and pronounced 200 words and each pupil wrote the word. Erasures were not permitted. At the end of the writing of the words eight judges looked over the papers and rendered final decision.
 Besides Phoenix, grammar schools of Mesa, Tempe and Osborn and the training school of the Normal were represented in the contest. Each faced the possibility of making 2,00O errors And of that possibility PhOe- nix made only thirty mistakes eight of which were charged up to the misunders landing of the pronuncia- = ton of one word. eight of the ten from Phoenix having understood the word pronounced to have been an other word of similar sound. all writing the same wrong word and spelling that word correctly. It was not an errCr in spelling, but under the rules of the contest was charged as such.
 The standing Of the teams at the close of the contest was as follows: School Missed Pet Phoenix ... ..........3O words 9S.5 Mesa ...... 109 words 94.5 Tempe ...... ........114 words 94.; Osborne ...... ......25S words ST. Training ..... ......318 words S2.: The five teams were made up O the following pupils:
 PHOENIX: Leonard HerWig, Lei;
 
 Ruth McMillan, Hona Blanton, Heller Dumphy, Ruth Stearns, Edith Harri son. Hazel Marshall.
 MESA: Anna Lewis, Ralph Mac donald, Amy Riggs. lone Lewis, Ros NichoI Martha Tweedy, George Blink ley. Marie Strait, Marva Guthrie.
 TEMPE: Dannie Parker, Lucil Bailey, Grace Johnson. Mary Moore Marion Pew, Paul Aepli. Ruth Spang Ter, Dorothy Averet, Marion Cool Harvey Steele.
 OSBORNE. Lillian Fosburg, Dor othy Grable Elizabeth Day, Stell Morgan, Mabel Dom. Vance Etri! Barry F.dgpeth. William Silva. Eal Galpin, Harold Partch.
 NORMAL TRAINING SCHOOL Jeanette Johnson, Creelie Halbert, Fl la Aston, Harold Austin. Emor Sampson, Mamie Sanders, Mary Els calante, Mary Wheel. Ruth Col Frank Hurley.
 The next contest will be held four weeks at which time it is be lieved that practically every gram mar school in Maricopa county wi be represented. The fact that tn
 
 first place is due to the fact ths spelling long a neglected study. ha for the past two years been give equal prominence with every Otht study in the grammar departmen In selecting the pupils to represel the Phoenix team, the classes frol Adams school and from Centri school each selected ten of the number to contest against each otf CT. The contest resulted in an al solute tie. On this record five wei selected from each school.
 Professor Randall, of the Centr school. for nearly two years had col ducted a monthly spelling contest the Central school. Professor JudsO of the Adams school. has been equa ly earnest in his work of bringir his branch of the grammar school a state of perfection.