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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (April 29, 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 baseball team lost the first game of last week to Salem high 7 to 4, but they more than made up for that defeat by taking the Portland high school of Commerce down the line on Friday, 6 to 5, and lick ing Columbia University 12 to 3 on Saturday. The local papers gave Salem credit for having outplayed our team: however, our boys were not outclassed and should have been commended on their fighting spirit and staying ability. Throughout the game the breaks went badly against them, which made it possible for Salem to hold the advantage. By fighting they made a ninth-inning rally look pretty bad for Salem. Charles George pitched against Salem, and while he allowed several clean hits he was far from being responsible for the loss of the game as his teammates for the most part gave very poor support. Leander Wilson pitched a fine game against Com merce. He kept their hits so well scattered that Com merce was unable to score till late in the game and then only after the bookkeepers managed to squeeze in a couple of hits with an error against us. Leander has the knack of waiting out the batter and uses it to good advantage. In this game our team played more like the one that finished such a successful season last year. Saturday, Solomon Fleury took the mound for us against Columbia University, the game we have been looking forward to with a good deal of pleasure and anticipation and have credited it as the hardest game on our schedule, partly because of previous battles and mainly because they had defeated all of the high school and collegiate teams of Portland already this season. This was the first game Fleury started this season because of trouble in locating the plate. By hard work and consistent practice he brought himself to the point of pitching almost flawless ball in the game against Columbia, allowing but three scattered hits and keeping them scoreless till the seventh inning. With the exception of Valin Davis at third, who had an off day, Fleury’s teammates gave him fine support. Time after time they knocked down drives that looked like hits and pulled long hits out of the air that looked impossible to get, while Solomon pitched his way out of several bad holes. Friday afternoon the team will go to Albany to play the high school and on Saturday we will take another whirl with the Salem high team at Salem. Salem had a lot to say about the last game. The boys are going to try and fix it so they won’t have anything to talk about in the next one. Last Sunday afternoon the second of our class games was played. The Freshmen won a most exciting and interesting game from the Sophomores, 11 to 10. Charles George and Willie J. Williams officiated and their decisions seemed satisfactory all around. On May the ninth our track team will go to Salem to vie with the track men of Willamette University andon May the 16th they will meet the Columbia track team here. AN HONOR Anna Peratorvich was the choice out of 600 girls at the recent Older Girls’ Conference in Salem to represent the high school girls of Oregon at the Older Girls’ Conference this fall at Geneva, Mich. This is both a tribute and an honor to Anna and it came as the result of a splendid talk she gave at the conference held recently in Salem. All of Chemawa is elated over the honor that has come to her as a student of our great school. Miss Eakin is in receipt of a letter from Miss Maurer, secretary of Oregon Council of Religious Education of Portland, regarding Anna as representative at Geneva. We are pleased to publish the following paragraph: “We just want to tell you how glad and happy we are that Anna was the first choice of the Older Girls’ Con ference for the Geneva delegate. After the splendid talk she gave on Sunday morning all of the girls seemed to feel that she needed the opportunity, if any one did, because of the service she hopes to be to her own people, as well as to others.” JUNIOR NOTES Alfred Bernard asked a few questions on current events last Wednesday in assembly. We expect a tight battle with the winners of the 7th- 8th grade game, formerly the Freshmen-Sophomores. Solomon Fleury is our all-around man for the inter class track meet. There a:e also, many others who are now working out. Our track prospects look very good for this year. We may win and we may not win the inter-class track meet, but we are sure to give the winning class a go for it. John Nevers, who was made foreman of a detail of boys to build three garages back of the gym, has been having a little hard luck lately, but he never quits, so he’ll be back with the carpenters when he feels better.
