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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 28, 1925)
THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN PAGE 2 The CHEMAWA AMERICAN Published Weekly at the Salem Indian Training School Chemawa, Oregon, HARWOOD HALL, Superintendent Address all communications to Ruthyn Turney, Manager SUBSCRIPTION 50 Cts PER ANNUM ATHLETIC NOTES Our basketball team got away to a flying start last Friday evening in the game against Washington high school and scored a total of 20 points while the visitors registered nine. In the second half the visitors made a come back, however, making several pretty field bas kets and a few foul throws while our basketeers strug gled desperately to get started. But their efforts avail ed them little. The close guarding and quick check ing of the Portland team allowed only a scant nine points, while they registered eleven. Making the total at the end of the game 29 for Chemawa and 19 for Wash ington. Our team play and basketshooting in the first half was smooth and accurate, coupled with plenty of speed which made it hard going for Washington and enabled the team to run up a lead hard to overcome. Reginald DePoe went out of the game in the second period on account of personal fouls for the first time this season. Reggie is our captain and center and when he is out his steady, consistent playing is missed. Peter Rassmussen replaced William Brendible at forward in the last game and showed some of his old time form. Peter was on the sick list sometime ago and is just now getting into shape to play ball again. Eldred George, a first year man at playing basket ball, is one of the most promising candidates we have on the court. He has participated in only a part of a few games, but in each one he did well. Work on the race track is nearly completed. The big dip in the south end is nearly all filled in and the track almost level all the way around. Our girls have been practicing for some time in preparation for their games which will start soon. Two games each have been definitely settled with Stayton, Mill City and Silverton high schools. Our cross country runners have been out quite regularly lately doing some real training. The bad weather has not retarded their practice a great deal, which show’s that they are really getting ready for the trial runs which will take place each Saturday before long. Gideon Brings Grub, our distance runner, has been helping some of the less experienced runners while going over the course. DOMESTIC ART NOTES Here we are back on the job again. Drafting! No name for it. It should have been called Geometry. Call it what you want, we’ve been drafting patterns all week. Though perplexing the problems we stick to them until finished. Accuracy in measurements is one of the essentials in correct drafting, but some of us were unaware of the fact and so when our patterns were finished, Behold! the shapeless forms. We have disproved the old saying of, “When the cat’s away the mice will play.” For our dear little teacher has been unable to be with us on account of illness. In her absence wTe were so quiet that the sound of pins dropping was like the crash of thunder on a hot summer day. We will rejoice on her return. On the first of last week w’e Seniors reported to Mrs. Kirk’s department. You all know that Mrs. Kirk’s department is the pre-vocational department. It brought back memories of our childhood. It made us feel like singing, “When you and I were young, Maggy.” We regret that this is our last week in this depart ment. We have arrived at the stage where work is no longer work, but play. When it comes to playing we’re right there. Hence the explanation of our enthusiasm over our work. If the sun were shining leal brightly you might be able to see bright flashes from our windows. Now we aren’t trying to flash mirrors or anything of the sort, it’s just our needles going at a rapid pace, for we are trying to finish up our fancy work. We remain, T he S enior G irls . LOCAL Soon we shall enter upon the month of February —four weeks exactly of it this year. The boys of the Climbers’ Club have reorganized their basketball team and are getting ready for a game to be played soon. These fellows do real business and go at it in the right manner. They felt that eveiy-one did not have a fair show’ to make the team so they called a meeting and held a real try-out. They play the Wild Tigers, or something like that, from Salem soon. It may interest old-time students and far-away read ers to learn that James McMann is still with us. James is now a businessman, being the new’sboy of Chemawa, and he is on the job early and late. In fact, consid ering that he is handicapped by lack of vision, his attention to business should be a lesson and an inspir ation for our care-free young men and cause them to feel more responsibility in the discharge of the various duties which come to them in the course of their schooldays here at Chemawa.
