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
Last Saturday afternoon our baseball team romped
away to a 6 to 0 lead in the first three innings of play
against Commerce High School in Portland. But just
as our boys began laughing up their sleeve Commerce
knocked the wind plumb out of their sails and before
they could collect their thoughts and master the situa­
tion the bookkeepers had put eleven scores across the
plate and won the game by the final score of 15 to 14.
"He who laughs last laughs best.” Seems that Com­
merce is laughing yet.
That lesson should linger in the memory of our team
just as long as any of them have any desire to play
baseball or any other kind of ball. Never be so cock
sure as to think you can win without working for it.
It is well to bear in mind that a baseball game is never
won, no matter how great the lead may be, till the
last man is out and the bats are in the bag.
It was easy going in the beginning and our pitcher,
Charles George, had things just about his own way.
He was sitting on top of the world laughing with his
teammates who were fielding and handling everything
that came their w’ay. Commerce did well to even see
first base. All of a sudden the wind began blowing
the other way and George couldn’t get a ball past the
batter to save him and the fielders didn’t get them till
they stopped rolling. They had knocked him out of
the box. Fleury, our southpaw, took the mound. He
was either afraid or couldn’t locate the plate. He
passed enough batters to force three runs across the
plate. Anyhow Commerce scored eleven runs in that
inning. When our team came in to bat they
found they could hit everywhere but the right place.
Good ball players are always found on earth; no
matter how well things are breaking for them their
heads never get so big but what they can w’ear their
caps. They save their laughing till after the game.
The best of them do very little then and are modest
about victory.
Atkins hit a home run with two men on in the first
inning. In the second inning Fleury sent in a man
ahead of him on his long hit over right field for a
home run. In the third Atkins made his second homer
of the day. But even such hitters as these failed to
come through in our last inning when the bases were
full. All because of over-confidence.
Saturday the team plays Salem high here. Salem
hasn’t any more license to beat us than we have to
beat the Chicago White Sox, but they will do it if our
team does not get back on earth.
DOMESTIC SCIENCE NOTES
Ahem! A nice morning isn’t it for the class of ’26
to begin their last detail in the domestic science de­
partment? We started out very industriously by pre­
tending that we were Dutch Cleaners. We lost con­
siderably while working on our construction dresses,
but w’e expect to regain our weight while working
with Miss Strout.
Tuesday, a week ago, proved to be a busy period
for we Juniors as we were preparing to receive the vis­
itors expected the following day.
Anna Augusta, Betty Lyndes and Agnes Williams
are busy this week making high school lunches and
must be excused if the lunches prove unsatisfactory,
as this is their first time here in quite awhile.
We have a new member in one of our families and
she proves to be an extraordinary cook. W’e have
nicknamed her “Dot.”
Ollie Kelly, a fifth grade girl, made a most delicious
cake for the Reliance party. We doubt if any Senior
girl could have improved upon it.
JUNIORS AT WIGWAM
We ate glad to be over here again for we never get
tired looking at our beautiful dining-room.
Monday and Tuesday w'ere our cleaning days and
Wednesday was our cooking and “final touch” day.
Pearl McNeil, Vera Korter and Odessa Johnson
were cooks last w’eek and proved to be promising
ones.
We are gessoing some picture frames, candle sticks,
and lamp posts, so in a few days there will be some
more added to the decorations in our dining-room.
DOMESTIC ART NOTES
Whew! Opportunity has again knocked at our
door. We can’t help smiling when we enter the
room, for one of the first suggestions given us leads to
smiles and then the world smiles with us.
We are to finish the panama uniforms and have al­
ready “tackled” the job.
We are very sorry for those who were unable to be
present the past few days at work for we feel that we
have accomplished a great deal.
S ophs .
Many of our people, young and old alike, have
suffered lately with severe colds. Some call it the
“Flu,” maybe so; bad enough any way. We fancy
the weather is the root of the evil.