T H E CHEM AW A A M ERICA N
HAGE 2
The CHEMAWA AMERICAN
stro n g com eback and if necessary will sack up a bunch
of black cats to scatter along the highw ay to cross the
p ath of th e A ngels.
Published Weekly at the Salem Indian Training School
Chemawa, Oregon, HARWOOD HALL, Superintendent
Address all communications to Ruthyn Turney, Manager
GIRLS PLAY WOODBURN HIGH TIE GAME
Entered at the Chemawa, Oregon, Postoffice as Second-
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LITERARY SOCIETIES
R eliance
All of our officers w ere ab sen t— at basketball p ra c
tice and elsew here. H erschel Crim acted as c h a ir
m an. A debate, “ Resolved, T h a t bachelors should
be taxed to su p p o rt old m a id s,” occupied m ost of th e
evening. A fter a heated open house discussion of th e
question th e ju d g es agreed w ith the negative th a t an
old maid should seek her own w ay in the w orld. A fter
listening carefully to o u r c ritic ’s rem arks we gave a
few yells and adjourned.
VARSITY LOSES TO MOUNT ANGEL
Some people are su p erstitio u s w hile others are n o t,
b u t nevertheless we feel som ew hat inclined to lean
tow ard the fact th a t bad luckfollow s the crossing of
ou r path by a black cat, at least some of th e b ask et
ball boys feel th a t th ere is som e gloom in it, especially
w hen ju st a week ago o u r varsity cleaned up on the
U . of O. frosh who in tu rn defeated M t. A ngel by a
com fortable score, w hile th e A ngels handed our team
the lemon last S atu rd ay afternoon at Mt. A ngel w ith
a good big sm ack th a t sounded som ething like 50 to
15. So it appears they have some reason to blam e
th e cat.
T h o u g h our team w as easily outclassed by th e v et
eran and m uch larger college team they m ust be given
cred it for p u ttin g u p a plucky fight, and th a t to th e
finish, alth o u g h they annexed little in retu rn for their
efforts.
Team w ork was poor and b asketshooting worse and
num erous passes th a t looked too high for a hum an be
ing to in tercep t were hauled out of the air and invari-
bly dribbled to the goal for baskets by the A ngels.
G eorge and P h in n ey , our tw o forw ards, as well as
our tw o guards, B uchert and A braham , h u n ted for
th e basket d u rin g the en tire gam e and never left a
spot untouched, b u t not once did th ey succeed in
dro p p in g the leather th ro u g h th e hoop. T h ey eith er
had a day off or the C atholics’ prayers were answ ered.
DePoe played a whale of a gam e, both on the offense
and the defense, and m uch as if o u r “ S panish a u n t”
w as sittin g on the side line, th o u g h his team m ates
w ere far below par. H e contributed eig h t of th e 15
points and each basket came as the result of excellent
piv o tin g on h is p art. G eorge converted five out of
six fouls and N orw est, w ho replaced B uchert, at g u ard ,
m ade two points.
A retu rn gam e will be played here soon and w e ’ll
bet a nickel to a d o u g h n u t there will be considerable
difference in the scores, for o u r basketeers prom ise a
O ur team played the h ig h school girls from W ood
b u rn a tie gam e here last S atu rd ay n ig h t in th e fastest
and m ost ex citin g g irls ’ gam e ever w itnessed by a
loyal and yelling bunch of spectators.
W oodburn has a fast and experienced team and have
deleated all opponents th u s far th is season by large
scores. Ju st a couple of w eeks ago they tu rn ed our
team back from W oodburn by a m a tte r of a half a
dozen points and were determ ined to repeat, but
o u r “ d ark eyed S u san s” stepped on th e gas and led
th e race till the very end of th e first half w hen W ood
burn slipped into the lead by a couple of points.
T h e second half opened u p like wild fire, w ith m ost
of th e fire on our side, and baskets by W ilder and
D ow nie put C hem aw a in the lead, w hich th e girls
held u n til alm ost th e close of the gam e w hen a basket
an d a foul, w hich was converted by W oodburn, tied
th e gam e, 22 to 22. T h e ru les do not perm it girls to
plav off tie gam es.
T h e girls have done well so far th is season inasm uch
as the team is com posed alm ost entirely of new and
inexperienced players, and th u s far th is season have
won one, lost one and tied one gam e. T h eir n ext
gam e will be w ith S tay to n high school girls at S tayton.
BOY SCOUTS
S coutm aster H enderson gave th e troops a good talk
on T h rift recently and we hope th a t it found a spot to
stick and th a t each Scout will p u t into use his kn o w l
edge of T h rift. T h is is one of our Scout laws.
W e are w ondering w ho will be th e n ex t to join us in
o u r Scouting? T h is week is m em bership drive. If
you w ant to be a real live boy, one th a t is not afraid to
do th e rig h t th in g and to help o th ers at all tim es, be a
Boy S cout.
S atu rd ay afternoon about forty scouts took a hike
and visited th e V alley P acking P lan t and the T ile
W o rk s. T h e gentlem an in charge at each place took
the tim e to explain th e w orkings of the plants to the
boys and we all cam e away th e w iser for having vis
ited these places. W hen we retu rn ed there was a
hearty meal aw aiting us at th e old cam p grounds.
LIBRARY NOTES
T h e book circulation at the lib rary for th e m onth
Bovs, 474; G irls, 343.
o f Ja n u a ry :
A rth u r Bowen, who has show n m uch interest in
the library, recently m ade a gift of a book w hich he
th o u g h t the boys m ight like to read.
In the F eb ru ary m agazines: U nited S tates Foreign
Policies by Secretary H ughes; F rench Invasion of
G erm anv; A rticles on T u rk ey , R ussia, and Irelan d ;
T he Progress of Science; Travel in N orw ay and A frica;
F irst successful Color movies; W ashington and L in
coln stories.