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
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.