The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-02-26
the FORESTRY TRIP

oNiIo'l Va 'lSSlI Z
team returned Monday evening
from an extended trip. The
following is a report of the
games played as handed in by
one of the boys:
Our first game was with the
Science school at Wahpeton on
February ~. so we left Botti-
neau on Thursday morning.
We spent the night at Fargo,
or that fraction of a night that
remains from 1:3O a. m. and
7 a. M, to make train connec-
tons. From all the shop win
dows and lamp-posts leered
great white posters announcing
the game, and it gave us a
pleasant feeling to notice that
the School of Forestry was
known and recognized even in
the right hand corner of the
state.
The game, of course, was a
joke from the Scientists stand
point but to us an unfOrgeta.
bic tragedy; yet it was our first
experience and when one stops
to consider the difference in the
two floors the results were
what might have been expect
ed. The Science floor is SOx6O
or an area of 1890 feet, while
the Forestry floor is 42x25,
about 1000 feet in area, you will
realize that the Science floor is
almost five times as large in
erea as the Forestry floor. Any
one who knows the game also
knows that the game played on
a small floor as is different from
one on a large floor as a game
of rotation pool is from a game
of baseball. We lost this game
6S to 8.
Our second game was also
at Wahpeton and was played
with the Indian school. Their
floor is slightly smaller and we
profited by our game of the
previous day and held the In
dams down to a score of 38 to
II. AS per schedule our next
game was to be at Glendale,
but the storm in%terferred and
held us up at Aberdeen and the
dates of the games with these
two schools was reversed.
The Aberdeen game was
played after the John Kendrick
Bangs lecture. Fully 600 per-
sons attended this game. Every
possible bit of standing and sit
ting room was fully utilized.
The crowd too, showed real
appreciation and cheered fully
as loud when the Foresters hit
the basket as when their home
rung up.
The other two floors at Ellen
dale and Mayville we're smaller
than the Others, though still
much larger than ours. The
score of the Glendale game
was in favor of the Forestry at
the end of the first half, but
the Teachers came back in
the second half and beat us to
the tune of rs to Is.
Our last game, that with the
Mayville normal, we won by a
score of 80 to ~. The first half
was in the school ma'am'
favor by the of Is to 10,
but the Foresters came back
in the second and floored the
normal team.
From Mayville the team went
to Grand Forks, where we all
attended the Founders Day
program at the university.
All in all, the trip, was high
ly successful, if for no other
reason than that the School of
Forestry was given the widest
and best publicity possible. We
evoked interest and were al
ways at each place, the reci-
pients of hundreds of questions
showered upon us as to the ma
ture of the work, enrolment,
, etc. of the School of Forestry.
This trip was made possible
. by the support of the business
men of Bottineau. The school,
coach and team are very CRATE
full for this help. 1t is felt that
a large amount of advertising
, was obtained for the school
, and that the trip was a great
, stimulus to the athletics and OF
3 great benefit to the boys them
selves. A list of the names OF
the business men contributing
will be published in next weeks
Issue.