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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1925)
PAGE 3 THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN LOCAL ATHLETIC NOTES On Monday evening the employes’ reading circle convened in regular monthly session with Supt. Hall acting as chairman. It proved an interesting event. Chemawa 23, Willamette University, 13 is the result of the return game played at the University last Tues day evening. Our basketeers had little trouble pene trating the frosh defense in the first half and registered 15 points while they held their opponents to a lone basket. The frosh played a hard, fast, clean game, but at no time during the game did they come anywhere near our score. Fast team work in the first half enabled our team to gain a large margin over their opponents, but in the second half, when the freshmen guarding was very loose, our team failed to work the ball in and the result was that the basket was missed by taking a long shot when it would have been almost a sure thing if the team had all depended on team work instead of the long shot. In spite of the weather the team had many boosters at the game. Some one counted eighty-six boys who rode in on the school truck. We cannot account for the way they rode or where, but anyhow they were at the game and more than that, they yelled and sang for their team like only loyal supporters can. Friday night the team met defeat at the hands of the Franklin high school team at Portland. Franklin won the championship of that section of the country last year and also the year before. They still have the same team intact and expect to win it again and if they play their season out like they played against us thev certainly will give somebody a run for their money. Our team played a fast, snappy game though not quite up to their standard, but the Portlanders beat us 31 to 15 They did everything just right. Shot baskets from all angles of the floor, atty old way and everv old way. They threw and made’em and that’s all there was to it. Though the score was rather one sided the game was closely played, for our quintet displayed some clever passing and worked hard till the final whistle was blown. Miss Olive Skipton, our dining-room matron, has been on the sick list. The doctor recommended her a rest period and she has been in Portland for the past week. At the regular session of the teachers’ meeting Miss Groves gave an interesting and helpful talk on the teacher’s responsibility for the health of her pupils and the value of health habits. Companies A, B, C and D of the boys’ battalion are drilling in preparation for spring. Each company is scheduled for time at the Gymnasium where the com panies are drilled in the Manual of Arms. We are not like the old lady who named the »lavs of the week and then exclaimed, “The whole week gone and nothing done!’’ January 23 marks the close of the first semester. One half of the year gone—but much has been done. Mr. John Will, who has been the instructor in the shoe and harness department, has resigned. He has opened up a shop at Springfield, Oregon. Alfred Kiu and Nicholi Nelson are in charge of this department. They are menders of ‘ bad Soles.” Ernest Hill, a member of last year’s graduating class, visited Chemawa recently. At present Ernest has employment on one of the steamers plying the Sound from Tacoma north of Vancouver, B. C. He reports that he is getting along nicely in everv way. Mr. Fred Bowman, probation officerat Vancouver, Wash., was a visitor last week. He did not realize until he had been here the capacity and the educational work being done at Chemawa. He reports that he recently saw Alex Eyle, one of our last year’s gradu ates, and that he was working near Vancouver. Considerable work is being done on our racetrack. It is being made the exact distance of one-fifth of a mile. Within the next two weeks all work on it should be completed and ready for use. This will not hinder the work of our distance men for they have been running cross country and have not been using the track. During chapel exercises last Sunday evening the orchestra played an overture by Schlepegrell, Raymond Haldane sang “Asleep in the Deep” by Petrie, Nick Stepetin recited “Black Hawk to Gen. Street,” the boys’ quartet sang “Little Cotton Dollie” by Geibel, the choir sang “I Love to Tell the Story” by Gabriel, and Supt. Hall closed the exercises with a splendid talk on “Thrift.” If our boys and girls would follow the splendid advice given them by Mr. Hall in time they would find themselves “wealthier and wiser” and in a far better state of health. Why not try it? JUNIOR NOTES Raymond Jones, one of our classmates, has been in the hospital for some time. We wish him a speedy recovery. - The class has adopted a new class song again. We will say that the seniors are poets. We could see that easily on their acceptance they sent us. About twenty of our junior boys went down last Tuesday to watch our team play with the Willamette Frosh,“Old Jake” being the main one. We are proud to say that a number of our Junior girls took part in the Nonpareil Open Session. “Aunt Jemima,” Agatha Crouch, was one of our classmates. Last Wednesday, Mrs. Palmer, our former ancient history teacher, told us a nice story of her visit to the Niagara Falls. We were much interested. Hope she will be called on again soon. We have gone through our ancient history once and have started on it again for the second time. Mrs. Whelan, our ancient history teacher, is making a most interesting study of it. We write our outlines in composition books and refer to them when we are not sure of some date, such as the death of Caesar or the Reign of Charlemagne.
