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
The moleskins have been dug up once more and the
boys are off for what is hoped to be the most success
ful football season the school has enjoyed in several
years. In baseball and basketball and track our teams
have fared nicely with the best high schools and mi
nor colleges of the state and have come home with the
majority of the “bacon.” But in football our record
has not been so brilliant, due largely to the fact that
our warriors have been small and inexperienced.
But, though our victories have not been so many, our
teams have built up wonderful traditions. The most
outstanding of these is that they are fighters and not
quitters. They have never displayed any tendency
to quit or give up, but have always done themselves
proud by being “fight-to-the-finish” men. Sports
manship has been their middle name and they have,
to their credit, conducted their games along these
lines. None can say that they have not been hard,
vicious fighters. Stronger and better traditions for a
football team cannot be had than those built up by our
youngsters.
The squad this season has started their work along
these lines and has entered into the preliminary work
with the zest and pep that makes us believe that we
can now begin to expect results.
The squad now consists of: Royal Holst and Se
dan Thomas, centers; Roy Peratrovich, Willie Skin-
na, Wallace Eagle, Arthur Bruce, Edward Walker,
Richard O’Brien, Eddie Oliver, Oscar Taylor, Thom
as Bad Bear, guards; Ole Strom, Francis Ross, Sam
Nerguson, Peter Rassmussen and Joe Webster, tackles;
Charles George, Alfred Colgrove, Valin Davis, Jimmy
Lane, ends; Coquille Thompson, Jack Abraham, El
mer Logan, Tom Anayah, Eli Spencer and Ulysses
Ferris, halfbacks; Jake Atkins, Alfred Bernard and
Gus Logan, quarterbacks.
Y. M. AND Y. W. 0. A. NOTES
On last Thursday evening the Protestant Bible
Classes enjoyed a special treat, consisting of a set of
slides depicting the industrial mission work on the west
coast of Africa.
Anna Peratrovich represented Chemawa as well as
the state of Oregon at the National Older Girls’ Con
ference at Geneva Glen, Colorado, this summer. She
will give her report of the conference next Sunday
morning at Sunday school.
Mr. B. J. Kimber, Marion County ”Y” secretary,
is planning to personally conduct the opening of each
“Y” club in the county this fall, and he has set aside a
date for Chemawa in the near future. There will be
four Y. M. C. A. groups for the Chemawa boys this
winter.
A large number of the older girls found their way to
the "Y” room on Sunday afternoon for the opening
meeting of the Girl Reserves. An enthusiastic song
service made everyone glad to be back again. Several
of the members told of interesting ways in which they
had been benefitted during the summer by their Girl
Reserve membership. A number of excellent plans were
also suggested for the fall program.
SOPHOMORE NOTES
We have eleven boys and twenty-one girls in our
class.
The boys of our class on the football team are Char
ley George, Jacob Atkins, Peter Rassmussen, Royal
Holst and Alfred Bernard.
At his home in Cashmere, Washington, Jacob At
kins put up hay. To break the monotony of this
labor Jacob played several games of baseball.
FRESHMAN NOTES.
There are thirty-eight girls and twenty boys in the
class to date.
Lincoln VanAlstine writes to his friends that he
will be with them on the campus shortly.
Charles Fagerstrom, who has been engaged on a
farm at Biggs, Oregon, has returned to Chemawa.
Ernest Bruno will be with us to attend the State
Fair. We shall be glad to greet our old sergeant-at-arms.
Leander Wilson will return to Chemawa soon.
Leander was president of the class and we will be glad
to see him.
Bert Kow, who has developed into one of the best
tailors of whom Chemawa can boast, will be obliged to
change his occupation for a season on account of his
health.
Louis Walks arrived Tuesday. He has been en
gaged during the latter part of the summer as one of
the movie actors of a Hollywood firm, filming scenes
on the Crow Reservation. He was much pleased with
this kind of work.
We are glad to welcome to our class the follow
ing new boys: John Davis, Daniel Constantino,
Amos Reed, Francis Ross, Ben Nathan and Wil
liam Eagletail. John Frimer, also a new freshman,
came with his cousin, John Frimer.