THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
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The CHEMAWA AMERICAN
Published Weekly at the Salem Indian Training School
Chemawa, Oregon, HARWOOD HALL, Superintendent
Address all communications to Ruthyn Turney, Manager
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ATHLETIC NOTES
In the opening game of our baseball season our team
defeated the State’s Prison last Saturday afternoon 14
to 12.
Jake Atkins, catcher; Charles George, pitcher; Regi
nald DePoe, first base; Eddie Sanderson, second base;
Valin Davis, third base; Dandro George, shortstop;
William Brendible, left field; Tom Claplanhoo, center
field; and Solomon Fleury, right field, is the way our
team lined up to start the game. With the exception
of Davis, Fleury, Claplanhoo and Dandro George, all
are members of our 1924 team, but the new members
fit in so nicely that the team appears in mid-season
form already.
In Charles George, Leander Wilson and Solomon
Fleury we have a very promising corps of pitchers.
With a couple of weeks’ more practice either of these
fellows should make it hard for opposing batters.
In the seventhinning with two men on bases Jake
Atkins made the first home run of the season for our
team.
Saturday afternoon the first home game of the season
will be played here against Franklin high school of
Portland at 2 o’clock.
Mr. Bent, our manager, is still arranging games,
but by the end of the week expects to have the sched
ule completed, at which time we hope to be able to
publish it.
Opening games are not always indicative of a team’s
real strength, but they often reveal many of its weak
points and some of its possibilities. This game proved
that we have a lot of both. In the field they got plenty
of chances to handle the ball. In every case but one
the ball was picked up or caught without a "bobble.”
At bat all had a chance to show their ability, for they
faced a pitcher with plenty of speed and "stuff” on
the ball. We have a few good batters and one or two
that are regular hitters. Before the next game we
expect a decided improvement in this department, for
the possibilities are there. Errors were not as numer
ous as they were costly. The trouble with the team
does not lie in getting the ball, but in what to do with
it after they get it. Our "bobbles” were not made in
handling the hit ball but in the next play, or the
choice of it.
TWO BOYS
Last Saturday an old Chemawa student by the name
of Fred Jackson called on Supt Hall. Fred was from
Unga, Alaska, and while here studied engineering
vocationally. He was a hard worker while here and
took advantage of everything that Chemawa had to
offer. He was here for three years and it is now seven
years since he left us. After leaving here he continued
to study and to work industriously to better himself
in bis line and from a modest beginning he has risen to
the highest position and pay in his line. He is now
chief engineer on a steamship operating along the Pa
cificcoast between the ports of Portland, San Francisco,
Los Angeles and San Diego. He has clear some
$200 per month. At every opportunity he visitsSupt.
Hall and Chemawa—the Superintendent has always
kept in close touch with him. Fred is a source of
pride to all of us.
During Fred’s recent visit here he told Supt. Hall
of a roommate he had while at Chemawa. While at
school the roommate was always looking for a snap,
trying to "get by” in the easiest way possible. He
was a shirker, a dodger—he just drifted along. As
he was while here he is yet. He is married now and
lives in San Francisco. He has nothing, is still look
ing for a snap and still dodging everything that looks
like real business where some display of energy and
ability might be demanded of him. He is always beg
ging Fred, his former roommate, for money, which is
often given him. He has neither pride nor industry.
Fred is an encouragement, a tonic, an inspiration,
and he thinks Chemawa the greatest school in all the
world. He is ever admonishing the boys and girls
who are privileged to come here to make the most of
what is offered them—so freely—without cost.
Now, boys and girls, do you not see the difference
in these boys? Can you not see why one stands high
in his calling today, while the other is still loafing and
drifting along? One was a drifter, the other a worker.
One was a sticker, the other was not. Here is a little
story that it will be well for all to remember. The
moral should be apparent to all.
SOPHOMORE NOTES
Howdy, everybody! How’s Chemawa with you?
Fine here.
Well, compliments to the Junior girls—they all
make good.
The Sophies held a class meeting recently, and after
a hot discussion over business matters the following
program wa» rendered: Recitation, James Thomas;
Hawaiian selection, David Peratrovitch; duet, Helen
Peratrovitch and Martha Orsen; humorous bi’s of life,
Dollie Hiett; class prophecy, Norma Douglas; things
that never happen, Lincoln Van Alstine; snappy
songs and yells by the class, and then adjournment.