The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1915-03-18
freshmen are the champs this year

freshmen are the champs this year.
Alta dinner last Friday evening Prof.
Critics and Miss Celia V. Hager, coach
es of the teams, were hosts to the II
basket ball winners. Plenty OF vlands.
with chicken the piece de resistance,
were provided and after the basket
shooters were stuffed to the capacity
speeches were made and the basket ball
CAPTAINS were elected for next season.
Art johnson, all-star guard, was elect
ed eaptain of the 1856 boys team,
and Della Morton was reelected cap
tain of the girls team.
Nal Button was elected foot ball cap
tam for the 1856 season at q meeting
of the letter men last week. Nal IS a
regular snow plow when he gets into
action. He played half back the past
season and got. away with 1t IN fiEe
shape. The election met with the
unanimous approval of all the boys at
the nigh school.
Bud Thomas, the best shor. stop,
sprinter, high jumper and all round
athlete in the vicinity of Hood River.
quit school the first of the week 10 20
to work on the West Fork Irrigation
ditch. Bud couldn't resist financial iu-
dependence, so packed up his books and
left. The fans have been patiently
waiting for the track meet with The
Dalles this spring when Thomas was to
meet Elton, the crack ID. HIS. sprinter.
Thomas won in 1918 and Elton is out to
regain the honor this year. Thomas
was the only veteran sprinter at the
high school. However, Hale may be
able to trot along up front in his place.
AT the literary society meeting last
Thursday night Grace RegneIi took
first place and Bessie Stevens second
place In the debate. The debatUrs were
Bess Steven and Ruth Howell vs.. Grace
RegneIl and Laura Bremmer.
Heine Blsgg, 'l3. star athlete during
his four years at h. X. II. s., won an
20" at o. A. G. in basket bail during
the season Just closing. The letters
were awarded last week and Helne was
highly tOuted in the q. A. l. Barom'
eter, the student paper.
With the announcement that The
Dalles has secured the services OF
George .(AdmiraD Dewey. the crack
| o. A. &. athlete, to coach them, ath'
letics in the local high school, is get
ting more interesting. The boys here
realize that they have got to get in anC
dig to keep up in class with both The
Dalles ana Dewey.
The Stevenson Hi basket ball team
champions of the Mid-COlumbla League
and of Southern Washington. will play
the jefferson, Hi of Portland at The
Dalles tomorrow night for the cham
pionship of Oregon and Southern Wash
lngton. lhe Stevenson school is going
up representatively on one of the rlvel
boats, which is scheduled to stop here
to take on a few of the local peopIewht
want to see the game.
rThe school bell, which has long don't
duty in the tower of the Pleasant View
school, and which has rung in the due
with the Park street bell. four times 1
day for the past five years, threw vi
the sponge and cracked last week, Iikt
the bell that made Philadelphia ia
nous. The janitOr was ringing thu
1880 bell last Friday when it brok'
through. An old bell of the wris
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till the school board gets into action oil
the question.
The Dalles high schools monthly pa
per, the Steelhead, copies of whlcl
have lately made their appearance herr
is classed among the best monthly pa
pers published. Descriptions of inter
etsing places nearby and pioneer &C
counts of old Fort Dalles and other his
torical scenes nearby are printed II
every issue. The December issue ha
long account of the Cello canal
There is just enough high school an
athletic news in it, interspersed wit
jokes, to make it interesting.
The literary society will meet ever
Thursday night during this and the fol
lowing month there are 100 student
in the junior and senior classes thl
year, and it is necessary for each t
appear twice in literary in order to ge
their English credit. This necessitate
the meeting every week instead o
every second week. Miss Celia '
Hager is directing tonight's literary
The debate will be, Resolved. Iha
the national defense shall be enlarged.
The debat0rs are, on the affirmative
julius jacobsen and Paul Lancaster o
the negative, Mark Moe and EaT
Shank.
At the benefit musical comedy tn
high school is giving March 26 four o
the girls will usher. Hi Breed wi
operate specially constructed electrics
!. apparatus to give moonlight effect i
the first and third acts. Bud Thoma
quitting school has made it necessar
. that some other musical protegee b
, broke in to sing in his place in tn
chorus. The tickets have been put o
sale at Clarke's drug store. Ticket
: can also be secured from any of tn
students and these can be exchange
for reserved seats later.
The senior class will entertain tn
sophomore class at the library hall Sal
! urday night.