be finished by the end of the semester which is only two weeks away. The Boys’ Glee Club has received one of the contest pieces which they are to sing at the contest later in the year.
January 17, 1929 S. N. (Sig) Jespersen of Roland, the Collins High School Athletic Director and Miss Lois Brouwer of Ventura were united in marriage last August, the wedding kept secret until recently, when announcements were received by friends.
February 7, 1929 High School Girls and Boys Win From Baxter The high school girls and boys were victorious when they defeated Baxter in two well-played games, making a clean bill for the evening. This was the first attempt at staging their games in one evening and a fairly large crowd was present. A triple bill is scheduled for Friday, February 8. The Independents play the fast Nevada Blue Devils, and the High School teams play the teams from Huxley. (No box scores found)
February 14, 1929 Collins Takes Two Second Places in the sub-county declamatory contest held at Nevada on Wednesday evening of last week. The awards were: Dramatic – second Kathryn Kimberley, “The Show Must Go On.” Humorous – Harriett Sokol, “China Blue Eyes.”
February 28, 1929 Collins Cagers Trounce Visitors The Gazette editor attended the basketball games at the local gym on Friday and Monday evenings, and although admittedly no basketball critic, he simply can’t refrain from passing a compliment – a whole raft of compliments, in fact – on the work of both girls’ and boys’ teams – and also on the work of their respective coaches, Miss Ives and Mr. Jespersen.
Monday night’s program marked the end of the season for the locals. The girls’ team has been playing phenomenal basketball all season, having sustained not a single defeat, and only one tie. And they later defeated the team that tied them. In Friday night’s game they defeated Maxwell 47 to 8, and Monday they did the same to Huxley, 40 to 22. (Insert 2003: Refer to 11/22/28 for listing of team members)
While everyone admits the boys were not going so well at the first of the season, the same “everyone” also admits they wound it up in a blaze of glory. The following, concerning the boys’ team, was written for the High School Broadcaster, to appear the last of the week, but we’re “stealing” it for the Gazette, because it is better than we can do – and exactly agrees with our opinion:
Since the last issue of the Broadcaster the boys’ basketball team have made history for themselves and the school. The jinx that had hovered over them all season was finally broken. Starting with a victory over Baxter, they have won four out of five starts. Baxter was defeated 20-14; Colo, 19-9; Maxwell, 28-9; Huxley, 37-19. They lost to Farrar 17-25. Baxter and Huxley had both defeated Collins earlier in the season.
By far the best game which has been played on the local court this season was the game with Huxley last Monday night, which closed the season at home. Led by the superb basket shooting of Captain Joe Streeter, the boys displayed a real brand of basketball to win by the top-heavy score of 37-19. The first half started out like a real battle and ended with the score 12-10 in the visitors’