Only five coupons are necessary to enter the Jewish Daily Bulletin’s Eighth Biggest Jewish News of the Week Contest. The Bulletin did not appear Tuesday, January 1, because of the legal holiday. Coupon number three appears today and coupon number five will appear Friday.
In the Fifth Biggest News or the Week Contest it was announced that Irving Zeichner, who won first prize of ten dollars and a gold medal in the high school division that week, was a student at DeWitt Clinton. Likewise, it was announced that Nathan Miller, the lad who had won third prize, was a student at James Monroe.
Irving, speaking to a Bulletin reporter, was glad his 250-word letter had been judged the best in the scholastic division. “I think the Bulletin is a swell newspaper,” said Irving. “However, there is a complaint I would like to make.
The contest editor said I came from DeWitt Clinton. Place me anywhere but at Clinton. I come from James Monroe in the Bronx and Clinton is our arch rival. Also you credited Clinton with the 100 points that should have gone to Monroe. Once that is changed I’ll really be able to enjoy my first prize of ten dollars and the beautiful gold medal you sent me.”
Young Miller declared that, “The fifty points I have earned should be scored for Clinton.”
Today’s standing of the schools shows the revised listing, which will appease both Miller and Zeichner.
PAROCHIAL STUDENT WINS TWICE
Abe Rubin, a student at the Hebrew Parochial School in Brooklyn, told the contest editor he was very happy to have won twice.
“I wish to express my thanks and appreciation for the prizes and the medals which I received yesterday. I showed the medals to my classmates and they all were fascinated by them. They assured me that in the next contest they will also participate.”
HIGH SCHOOLS STANDING
The present standing of the high schools in the race for the News Trophy, to be awarded to the school with the greatest number of points at the end of the contest, is brought up-to-date today and includes the results of the Sixth Biggest Jewish News of the Week Contest.
School Points
James Madison 345
Townsend Harris 245
James Monroe 175
Benjamin Franklin 170
George Washington 150
Hebrew Parochial 145
Girls 125
Seward 125
DeWitt Clinton 125
New Utrecht 120
Morris 100
Tuley High School, Chicago 70
The following schools have twenty-five points each: Samuel Tilden, Thomas Jefferson, Washington Irving, Alexander Hamilton, Manual Training, and Brooklyn Technical.
Alice Silverstein, of Girl’s High School, was the first girl in the Bulletin’s Biggest News competition to win a first prize of $10 and a gold medal. She earned 100 points for Girl’s High in the last contest and because of an honorable mention she received some time ago, she has individually scored 125 points for her school.
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