The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-03-14
ESSAY, SPEAKING AND BASKET
BALL CONTEST.

Continued from Page One.)
floor, while Custer connected with
only three. Chouteau county fort
Benton) high school took third place
in the tourney when that team de-
feated Billings in the third game Of
the evening, 20 TO 13. Billings as the
result Of losing this game dropped to
| sixth place. Anaconda defeated
Great Falls in the second game of the
final nights contests, and thereby
took fourth place, while the Electric
City team dropped down TO seventh
on the list of winners. Fifth place
1 went to Helena in return for her
strong comeback, when after drop
ping her first game to Great Falls,
the Capital City boys defeated every
! other team they played, by good mar
gins, and ran up the highest score of
any team in the tournament, 105
points. Helena also had the greatest
margin of points over those made by
her opponents. Darby, due to her
loss to Helena, took eighth place
among the winners of the tournament.
The other eight teams that were en
tered at the opening of the play were
eliminated before the final nights
i play, and did not place.
Tom Olmstea6, Jr.. of B~eaverhead
county speaking on the question
Further Disarmament Would Be a
Blunder for the United States at the
Present Time," won first place in
the final state extemporaneous speaS-
ing contest. Senator B. K. Wheeler
Ought TO Join the Farm Bloc in the
United States Senate" was the sub
I ject upon which Eleanor Craven, of
Butte city high school, won second.
Naomi Herren, of Havre high school,
was awarded third place with her talk
on the subject, "Steps Should Be Tex
en- by the Great European Powers 20
Prevent an Alliance Between RUSSIA
and Turkey"
The winner of this conresC receives
a scholarship for four years in any
of the institutions of the University
of Montana, and a gold medal suitably
inscribed; winners of second and thir!
places receive silver and bronze med
ais, respectively.
James HazeltOn, writing on the
subject, "The Occupation of the
Ruhr," won first place in the essay
writing contest. Hazelton represent
ed Wibaux county (Wibaux) high
school. He received a gold medal and
a ~four-year scholarship in any of the
component institutions Of the Greater
University Of Montana as a reward
for his first honors. Vera Lanlnan,
of Butte Central high school, came
second, writing on the subject, cold
Fashioned Ideas" and Alice Duncan,
of White Sulphur Springs high school
placed third, writing her essay on the
Nozsa COLL TI1%L4- ~ H. xS-,,n-o
= of second and third places received
= silver and bronze medals, respective
e ly, for their efforts. I'd.
The crowds at this years event;
/ eclipSed those of all former years
f The big gallery around the basketball
floor was packed. not only for the
=. ! games of the closing night. but ais
for every other session of nigh
f games. Persons desiring the non
e reserved seats went to the gymnasium
e every night of the tournament short
ly after 6 o'clock, so they would b,
n able to get seats before they wer
all taken. One of-the features of tn
a twelfth annual tournament was tn
inception of the ruling that 'kids
sr could get into any Of the sessions o
is the games for the price of 10 cent.
< This made all the games within reac
IN of the younger generation of basket
at ball fans of Bozeman, Every nign
ed and Saturday morning, when schoN
I'd was not held, OFT Romney had a We
table army Of "kids" which followe
him into the special bleacher seal
a which had been reserved for them.
at Crowds turned out for the speal
ey ing contest, Saturday afternoon, 1
D. for basketball, when the seating C;
ne pacity Of the Emerson auditOriu
was strained to accommodate the al
lie dience.
of How they placed
IN First-Custer County.
- Second-MiSsoula.
,t- Third-Choteau.
on Fourth-Anaconda.
on Fifth-Helena.
tIe Sixth-Billings.
Seventh9Great Falls.
20. Eighth-Darby.