THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
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The CHEMAWA AMERICAN
intentional” fouling is expensive and is an easy way
to give the opponents the game. No matter how good
a player may be he is useless when he is on the bench.
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
We have had the pleasure of seeing several fast and
snappy basketball games here this season, but the one
played here last Thursday against the B'nai B’rith
Club team of Portland was in a class by itself. Both
teams displayed a brand of passing and basketshooting
that would be hard to equal anywhere. Swift passes,
coupled with accurate shooting, enabled our team to
lead the visitors in the first half 18 to 9. However,
the Portlanders were outpassed but very little. Where
they encountered their difficulty was in breaking
through our defense. Our team plays the five-man
defense and playsit effectively.
Early in the second half the club team took a sudden
spurt and by making several long shots all but closed
up the gap that separated the two teams. It was at
this point that the battle became the hottest. And it
was also here that Eldred George and Dewey Matt,
both forwards, were forced to leave the game because
of personal fouls. For a moment it seemed that our
team had passed out of the picture. But soon a new
combination started working and they made their pres
ence felt. Peter Rassmussen and Charles George were
changed from the guard to the forward positions and
Roy Peratrovich and Jack Abraham went in at guards.
With DePoe still at center these five stemmed the tide
and managed to hold a two-point lead over the visitors
till the final five seconds of play when one of the club
men converted a long field goal from the center of the
floor and tied the score.
The five minute overtime period was well worth the
price of admission itself. There was too much excite
ment for words. It was one of those rare games and
it was long after the game was over before the noise of
the battle died away. Our team had won by the nar
row margin of a single point—30 to 29.
The work of Captain DePoe, Peter Rassmussen and
Charles George deserves special mention. It might be
said that these fellows played a “whale” of a game.
They played throughout the whole contest and their
work was splendid.
It might also be said here that we do not like to see
any one have to leave the game because of personal
fouls. Every player knows his limitations and can
avoid fouling. It should be borne in mind that “un
Good morning, folks!
We are very busy cutting patterns for woolen dresses
that we are going to make; and by looking at the
styles chosen you will find them very clever. Although
some of the patterns have been originated here they
are all Parisian styles.
We are also completing fancy work and pleated
skirts started by the other division of Sophies.
With us are some of the Freshie girls, who are busily
engaged in the making of clothes for small children,
bother Guiney, a popular and the smallest member of
our class, is the practice leader for this week. Although
she is small she is doing very nicely in handling her
work with the fifth and sixth grade girls.
LOCAL
The plumbing force has just completed a number of
unusually artistic flower baskets—“dreams,” we
would call them.
Early last week Mrs. Turney and her boys and girls’
octettes put on a program in the evening at the First
Methodist Church in Salem. The program and its
rendition was praised by all.
The electricians have been busy of late installing
new lights in various sections of our campus. These
outside lights not only make it easier to get around the
grounds at night, but they also increase the beauty of
the scene immeasurable.
Peter Rassmussen is working in the blacksmith shop
at the task of making some very fine lamp brackets.
They are reported to be of English design and it is
said that the work is very fine. They are for the
domestic science department.
Dr. Collard during the past three or four weeks has
operated on about 150 of our boys and girls for the
removal of their tonsils and every case has proved suc
cessful. Who dares say this is not a fine record?
Mr. Huskey, our chicken raiser, has his incubators
going night and day and ere long a large number of
chicks are destined to burst forth from the shell to as
sume the battles of the chicken world. Mr. Huskey is
busy getting everything in tip-top shape for the
hatches soon to come.
The boys and girls of the various vocational depart
ments of the school, and the academic department, too,
have recently completed a very fine exhibit for presen
tation before the National Educational Association in
Washington, D. C. We are told that the exhibit has
already been sent to Washington and that it is in every
way creditable to our great school.