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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 4, 1925)
THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN LOCAL The masons, carpenters, and machinists have been busy at the hospital remodeling the operating room. Mr. Woodard, farmer, met with an accident the other day, hurting his knee so that he has been unable to attend duty. John Eminoff, who was a student at Chemawa about five years ago, dropped off the S. P. train a few days ago for a visit here. He has now arrived at man’s estate and seems to be getting along nicely. Since leaving school he has been following the sea, mostly in Alaskan waters. Our school would be greatly handicapped if it were not for the fact that our junior and senior boys and girls enjoy taking classes during the absence of teach ers. Archie Graycloud and Grace Peterson taught the fourth grade while Miss Lepel was absent in Port land; Williamette Blakeslee taught the third grade during Miss Stanley’s absence on Monday. During chapel last Sunday evening the orchestra played a number by Schlepegrell, Florence Murchison sang “The Sunshine of Your Smile” by Ray, Agnes Ponchene recited “The Wreck of the Hesperus,” Frank James played the “Melodie in F” by Rubinstein as a baritone solo, the choir sang “Nancy Lee” by Adams, and Supt. Hall gave a splendid talk on the matter of living down past mistakes and rising above them; the policy should be to profit from the lesson taught by mistakes. This was a fine talk along prac tical lines. Last Saturday night the senior class put on their annual play. “Aaron Boggs, Freshman,” was the play selected and it proved most entertaining because it was excellently presented. Quite a large cast was required to properly present “Boggs” and we wish to congratulate all who took part. Their work was most commendable in every way; Miss White, senior teacher, also is deserving praise for her work in staging the play. A large attendance greeted the efforts of the class and enthusiastic approval was in evidence everywhere. Arrangements had been completed to play the Che ney Normal School team here on Tuesday evening, but some unforeseen things arose that made it impossi ble for them to come so Mr. Bent, our manager, has completed arrangements for the fast American Legion team of Silverton to play here tonight. The game will be called at seven-thirty and will be a good one without question. The Silverton team has made quite a record already this season, which is to be expected when they have such players as the Latham brothers of University of Oregon basketball fame. ATHLETIC NOTES An exciting evening of basketball was had in our gymnasium last Tuesday when our girls defeated the PAGE 3 high school team from Stay ton 23 to 4, and the boys oi our second team took a well-earned victory from the Salem high school second team 35 to 21. The girls’ game was fast and well-matched in spite of the score. Stayton compelled our girls to extend themselves for every point they made and naturally forced the maneuvering and best basketball played here by any girls’ team in a long, long time. Cecile Smith and Edna Crofoot are responsible for the small Stayton score, for they put up a brand of defense almost impossible to penetrate. One field basket and two foul throws are all these stellar guards would allow. Nellie Reinhart and Alice Flexible were on the scoring end of our machine and were ably assisted by Susie Hart and Clarinda Quinnell from the center and running center positions. These four girls started and completed some of the best team plays ever executed in our gym. Miss Snook, physical education teacher at Salem high school, officiated and kept the game clean and fast as usual. A return game has been arranged with Stayton and it will be a keen pleasure to meet them, for they are real sports. In the bovs’ game Salem started with a bang and rang up nine points almost before our boys could get a foot loose, but that burst of speed did not dampen the spirits of our “Hotshots” and from then till the close of the game they made a steady climb to the top. At halftime the score stood 17 to 12 in Salem’s favor. When the whistle blew to start the second half there were five of our men on the court dashing, passing and shooting baskets with such speed and accuracy that Salem rushed in player after player to check their rally, but there was no checking to be done, for Pete Rassmussen, center; Eldred George and Willie J. Wil liams, forwards; Paul Keta and John Milne, guards, played the kind of basketball it does us all good to see and kept Salem on the defense during almost all of the second half while our team played like of stars, yet they maintained team work throughout. Rassmussen was our high point man, with 17 mark ers to his credit, while Eldred George garnered 11. Paul Keta 4, Willie J. Williams 2, and John Edelman 1. Last Friday our girls’ basketball team and their coach, Mrs. Downie, made the trip to Toledo by auto mobile to play the high school team of that place. Mr. Bewley, our machine shop instructor, very gra ciously offered to drive part of the team over and Mr. Downie took the rest in Superintendent Hall’s Ford. Though they lost the game by a 21 to 19 score the girls all declared they had a wonderful time and enjoyed the trip immensely. It is a little over a hun dred miles from here to Toledo, but it seemed like a very short drive for the cars made good time. All planned on getting up early and driving out to New port so that they could see the “Grand Old Pacific,” but two of the girls forgot to wake up, so that part of the trip had to be called off on account of the late start home. The girls making the trip were, Cecilia Smith, Edna Crofoot, Susie Hart, Alice Flexible, Nellie Reinhart, Clarinda Quinnell, and Mabel De- sautel.
