May 1, 1919 The ball game at Slater Friday between the Collins and Slater high school teams resulted in a score of 14 to 8 in favor of the Collins team.
May 15, 1919 BASEBALL SCHEDULE Slater H. S. at Collins Friday at 4:30 with Collins H. S. Nevada H. S. at Collins Tuesday at 4:30
May 15, 1919 COLLINS WINS FROM CAMBRIDGE Wednesday of last week. The Collins and Cambridge High School ball teams crossed bats at Collins and when the smoke of battle cleared away it was found that Collins had fourteen scores and Cambridge eight. The Collins team is hard to beat.
May 15, 1919 The Collins H. S. ball team won from the Story City H. S. team yesterday in a hotly contested game by a score of 4 to 1. The score was 4 to 0 up to the ninth inning. Some ball team.
May 22, 1919 School Overcrowded. Fifty-five written applications for admission next Sept are now on file. These will be admitted if the capacity of the room permits. If all cannot be provided for, what shall be done with the others? This is a real problem for the rural community. Recent legislation will evidently close some rural schools. Where shall these children receive teaching?
Commencement Excises - A class of seven will graduate from the Collins High school this year. On May 30, 1919.
May 22, 1919 SLATER-COLLINS GAME The visitors were easily outclassed but were gritty and played the game with a determination to do their best. This game was a tryout for Oswalt as pitcher and his performance was very satisfactory. The visitors didn’t understand how he did it but he did. Score, Slater 3, Collins 26.
May 22, 1919 Nevada High Plays Ball? (front page) Collins Gazette
Nevada High school was defeated by the Collins High school in a hotly contested match. The game was played on the Collins grounds Tuesday afternoon before a large crowd of enthusiastic rooters and but for the fact that Nevada had come to our village with a steadfast determination to win the game – a laudable ambition – everything would have been find. But they had underestimated the bunch they had to go up against. From the beginning of the game much was heard from Nevada rooters about “small town stuff.” During the past two years we noticed that Nevada liked the “small town stuff” such as we furnished in “long green ” to help Story cont go “over the top ” in the various drives for Liberty Loans, Red Cross, Y. M. C. A. and other activities in connection with the world war. But the “small town stuff” won’t go in a ball game particularly when there is too much of it – such as scores. Nevada could not stand it and at last to find a ready excuse to quit, resorted to the old worn out excuse of kicking on the decision of the umpire – they just quit, but then, “he who fights and runs away will live to fight another day. ” Both umpires, in our estimation, were perfect gentlemen and endeavored in every way to render correct decisions.