The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-17
BOY TOOK HONORS|
Eleven Year Old Child Cham
piOn in Spelling.
LOWman School Given Credit
for Survivors"

Grin Kenyon. an eleven year old boy
of the ga grade of Harrison school.
won the championship in spelling last
night at the high school. To Lowman
Hill school goes the credit for having
the greatest number of representa-
tives survive for the final contest.
Central Park was second in this point
and Harrison, which won the cham
pionship, third.
For over two hours young Kenyon
faced all manner and varieties of
words. Although the misplaced letters
WAS the only consideration in deter
mining the mispelling of word,
young Kenyon went through without
a mistake or a hesitation in syllables
or capitalization.
1t took 80 minutes for Kenyon to
spell down four opponents in the ga
contest. Thelma Cook, Garfield; Mar
shall McClintock, Polk; Reno
Schwartz. Clay, and Rosamond Ny
man, Sumner, forced him to the limit
before he won A large audience
waited in the assembly room for the
termination of this match, which was
the most prolonged of any of the pre-
1iminary ones
The final contest showed distinctly
the superiority of the coming genera
ton of the third. fourth and fifth
grades over the sixth, seventh and
eighth. Toward the last when the
contest narrowed down two little tots
were holding their own against Ken
yon. They were little Mildred Hunt
of the BIB grade of Clay school and
John Schwartz, a nine-year-old boy of
the ga grade from Lowman school
Mildred Hunt fell down on promise
and was Immediately followed by Ar
line Thompson, of the S-B Lowman
Hill on compass The contest also
indicated the superiority of the boys
over the girls. misunderstanding
nearly caused a miniature tragedy for
John Casebier of the Alb grade. He
had thought that the grand finale was
not to occur until Saturday night and
went nome after the preliminaries. A
good Samaritan, however, proffered
mis- auto and young Casebier was
brought back just as he was about to
enter the arms of Morpheus.
The words fer the final contest were
pronounced by Superintendent Wilson.
The assembly room was crowded with
school children. who watched with
nervous attention the progress of their
representatives.
List of Winners.
Following is a list of the winners in
each of the grade contests. the schools
they represent and the word on which
they were spelled down:
Grin Kenyon, 5-A, Harrison,
John Schwartz, Lowman Hill, ga,
buried"
Airline Thompson, Lowman Hill
s-B, compass
| Mildred Hunt. Clay, BIB. promise -
Marjory Hodge, Central Park, ga
secretary
/ Rose Deshler.a Central Park. S-A
freeze - ef-.
| Douglas McEachron. Central Park
T-B, balloon
Esther Balch, Lowman Hill. IA
| fuel"
+ John Casebier. Clay. Alb, Eskimo
| Joe Anderson, Polk, 5-B, straight
! Helen Hannah, Harrison, 6-B, "use-
full" -
/ Sherman Johnson, Lowman Hill, A.
| A, meant"
+ Lowmap Hill claims the champion
| ship as school. having 81 points t.
its credit in the final contest. Contra.
Park was second with 81 points; Har.
rison, IA; Clay. 13; Polk, 3. In the
grades made in the first part of the
contest, the written test, S-A attained
the highest average grade. The order
follows: ga, "a per cent; Alb, 81
per cent: "A, 80 per cent; 7-B, SO pei
cent: SB, SO per cent; IA, IS pei
cent; 6-B. SO per cent: ga. So pei
cent; ga. 81 per cent; 3-B, sc pei
cent; 5-B, Sc per cent; ga, 81 pei
| cent.
Building grades were high, ranging
from 95 down to a few at rs. Tn,
general average was above IS per cent