THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
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The CHEMAWA AMERICAN
Published Weekly at the Salem Indian Training School
Chemawa, Oregon. Please address all communications to
Ruthyn Turney, Manager.
JAS. H. McGREGOR
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Superintendent
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ATHLETIC NOTES
Our baseball team defeated the North Pacific Dental
College last Friday afternoon in Portland 11 to 3. Dewey
Matt started the scoring in the second inning, when he
was very nicely sacrificed to second by Reginald De
Poe and scored on Charles DePoe’s double to center
field. Dewey crossed the plate again in the fourth in
ning with Reginald DePoe, giving us a three-point
lead. But the dentists, in their half of the fourth, tied
the score and threatened to take the lead until their
side was suddenly retired and what looked like certain
runs were left standing on bases, all of which is ac
counted for by the two put-outs and one assist credit
ed to Charles DePoe, second baseman. That little rally
was all that the dentists needed to fire them up. In
stead of playing a rather listless game they now took
on new life and determination.
This fourth inning score was also all that was
needed to put our boys on their toes. Fleury began to
bear down in the pitcher’s box. The balls now whizzed
and zipped across the plate, with better control and
free passes to first base ended and would-be hitters
about-faced and marched back to the bench with some
thing like regularity. His teammates were now busy
fighting it up and playing with much the same effect.
They grabbed them all and in their half of the fifth
found Nesbit, the Dental pitcher, for three hits and
three runs. The sixth was a continuation of the fifth.
They pounded Nesbit for five hard hits. Solomon
Fleury and Charles DePoe connected for trippies;
George Meachem and Reginald DePoe, doubles; and
Valin Davis got a single, all scored. It was a wild
inning with plenty of action on both sides. Finally
Atkins hit into a double and the side was retired when
Abraham struck out. On account of the many other
events that had been scheduled to take place in the
afternoon sports the game was called at the end of the
seventh inning.
The rain curtailed what otherwise would have been
a rather busy week for our baseball team. On last
Monday they waited until four o’clock at O. A. C. for
the weather to clear up so that they could play a
scheduled game with the Rooks. But about that time
it started raining harder and the team came back
home. On Thursday Columbia University was to
appear here, but the weather again interfered and the
game was postponed until a later date.
On Friday the team will tear into Salem high once
more. We took them into camp early in the season
by a 3 to 2 score. This time the game will be played
in Salem.
One more game and the race for the class baseball
championship will be over. Maybe! That depends
upon the outcome of this next game, which is to be
played between the Freshmen and the Sophomores.
To date the Juniors and the Freshmen are in the lead
with three wins each. But the juniors have one defeat
chalked up against them. The dope favors the Fresh
men, for they are going up against a comparatively
weak team, one that has won but one game all season.
Should the Frosh win they will be the undisputed
champions. If they lose they go into a tie with the
Juniors. It will be remembered that the Juniors and
the Freshmen fought it out in football. The Sopho
mores, who have been hopelessly out of luck all season,
may be the ones to throw these two classes into another
championship struggle.
AN INTERESTING GUEST
The Y. W. C. A. girls were priviledged on Sunday
to entertain as their guest Miss Sumi Yamamoto, pres
ident of the State Older Girls’ Conference, and a
junior at Einfield College. Miss Yamamoto is a na
tive of Japan, and at Sunday School spoke to the
students regarding her childhood in that country, with
its background of idol worship and oriental customs.
She has been educated in America and paid a very
high tribute to the ideals of this country.
In the afternoon she addressed a large group of
Y. W. C. A. girls, speaking on the great student
movements of Europe and Asia, and emphasizing
particularly the responsibility of American students
to cultivate friendship with these foreign students and
to co-operate with them in helping to make a better
world.
Following this meeting, the Junior Girl Reserves
enjoyed the opportunity to meet Miss Yamamoto, and
she spoke to them of Japanese customs of dress, wed
ding and funeral ceremonies, and many other interest
ing facts concerning her country.
Eater in the afternoon the Y.W.C.A. Cabinet, with
Miss Eakin and Miss Judd, entertained with a lunch
eon in her honor. Miss Yamamoto’s winning person
ality, her sincerity, and her very real interest in peo
ple of all races made her indeed a charming guest and
an inspiration to all who met her.
DOMESTIC ART NOTES
Wow! Companies A and B of McBride Hall step
ped out in their new gingham uniforms on Sunday.
We think they are lovely. The uniforms for Winona
Hall will be completed soon. We all think Mattie
Turcotte will be an expert at renovating, because it
seems she always gets the “left overs” to renovate.
Ferol Porter and Williamette Blakeslee are learning to
use the “Paintex;” it’s a new way of decorating ma
terials. About Wednesday we will begin to study the
processes of tie dyeing.