Butler High School - Tropaeum Yearbook (Butler, IN)

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F ootball. The Butler High School experienced great and stirring events in athletics this year. It was somewhat eclipsed by the interest taken in debating, at which the school has made no mean record so far. A football team organized early in the year, Millard Stone being elected captain. lor various reasons they joined the city boys. Several games were played. The game with Bryan on Thanksgiving day was a hard battle. It ended with a score 0 to 0. At the games with Hicksville and Montpelier our boys were beaten but considering the practice they had had they made a very creditable showing. One game was played with Fremont with a score 6 to 0 in our favor.

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held weekly during the fall. Members of the Senior class hold the championship for these games. ‘“Jakey” a Senior whom we are proud of became very efficient at the game. He had a special which he call- ed a “‘cincher.” But alas! it was often ‘cinched.’ A short time ago the boys scraped and rolled the court for playing this spring. The membership of the club is now about twenty-five. The Sen- ior class hopes to see the interest in tennis and athletics in general grow. ’09 it is up to you to see that it does. Can you do it? Baseball. The baseball team organized on the 2nd of March. The games in view for the season are: Edgerton, Auburn, Hicksville and Bryan with a return game for each one. The team is as follows: Pitcher - Floyd Elliott Short stop - Millard Stone Catcher y Ernest Hose Left field : Vern Pifer First baseman - Cleve Grube Center field = - Guy Cosper Second baseman Harmon Parker Right field - Coy Pifer Third baseman - Ross Firestone . Subs. =? - Hubert Farnsworth and Rollo Wiley Success to the B. H. S. in athletics! Del

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Debating. The Butler High School Debating Club was organized October 11, 1907, with Millard Stone as president. Bi-monthly meetings were held on Friday evening in the English room of the high school building. Soon after the Christmas Holidays, Auburn was chalienged to an inter- high-school debate. The challenge was accepted, Auburn naming the subject: ‘‘Resolved that the government of England is more truly and directly in the hands of her people than is the government of the United States in the hands of her people.’’ Butler chose to defend the affirmative of the question. The de- baters were: Butler—Harold Tess, Miss Besse Wiley and Miss Mildred Kenestrick; Auburn—Miss Viola May, Miss Edna Provines and Fred Shearer. KE. B. Dunten of Butler, Dan Link of Auburn, and Prof. Fairfield of Angola, served as judges. The debate was held March 6, at Auburn. The debate was a very creditable one for both sides. The Butler debaters had their arguments the more logically arranged and were decidedly the better on delivery. The affirmative won the decision by a per cent of 82 5-9 to 77 5-11. A return debate will be held at Butler on April 17. The subject is: “Should the U. 8. government own the inter-state railroad, telegraph, and express systems?’ Auburn chose to defend the negative of the question. The debaters were: Butler—Rollo Wiley, Miss Mabelle Murch and Miss Jannet Mason, Auburn—Gilbert DeLapp, Miss Myrtle Hornberger and Miss Bonell Souder. The debate promises to be an in- | teresting one and will undoubtedly be a closer one than that of March 6. Debating gives a valuable training to those who take part. The power to think and speak well when before an audience is of great use to an individual at the present time and will undoubtedly become more and more useful as the complexity of our institutional life increases. When High School days are over, The brightest days of life, And we have entered into This world of toil and strife; When our schoolmates and our friends Are scattered thru the world, Neath foreign skys, ’Mid foreign climes, By Fate’s cruel hand they’re hurled Then will we take this dear book up, And read each grind and joke, Thinking of those who wrote them, And of many things they’ve spoke, Not knowing if they’d hit or not Knowing not and caring less Ah! then we’ll wish that we were back In the dear old B. H.S. John Blaker, ’09. 23