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.
JAB. H. McGREGOR
SUBSCRIPTION
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Superintendent
50 Ote PEB ANNUM
ATHLETIC NOTES
Our basketball season will open with Washington
high school of Portland this evening. Eight of our
hoopers will journey there to win the game if they can,
and incidentally get our team off to a good start, for
the first games are vitally important if the making of
a good record is at all considered.
If the first games are won the effect is usually inspir
ing and the players acquire what might be termed
“athletic confidence,” which enables them to play, at
times, over their heads. On the other hand, if they
are lost they cause a team that is capable of playing a
really better game to play a much inferior one, be
cause they lack confidence, daring qualities, or the
take-a-chance spirit. These are all vital and without
them a te;im is hopeless. Altogether they have what
is termed the ‘ ‘inferior complex. ’ ’ Once a team arrives
at this stage it is likely to remain there for an indefinite
period and emerge from it only after a long and bitter
struggle. The success of our basketball and baseball
teams have been quite regular from year to year, but
it is only in recent years that our football team has
risen above the “inferior complex.” A few years ago
it was walloped by any and all comers and considered
each defeat as a matter of course. They fought and
played hard, of course, but they would be beaten no
matter how poorly the other team played. Simply be
cause they were dominated by that inferior frame of
mind and entered each game licked and came out with
the short end of the score.
Our football teams are not that way now, but it took
a long time to fight their way above it. Last season
our basketball team stepped into some real class so far
as basketball is concerned and entertained the crack
Cheney Normal team from Spokane here. The Nor
mals were touring this section of the country, making
their usual round of the coast conference teams, and
had humbled several while they were about it. Our
team, though just a high school team, played them to
a standstill and was beaten only in the last minutes of
the game. That is what “athletic confidence” will
do for a team. It causes them to extend themselves
with less effort, they take a chance and succeed where
otherwise they would fail. It puts finish and finesse
into their playing which years of experience could not
do. That is what Dewey Matt and Eldred George,
forwards; Reginald DePoe, captain and center; Roy
Peratrovich and Peter Rassmussen, guards; Jack
Abraham, Allie Smith and James Spencer, spares, will
try and start to build up tonight. They are the eight
men to make the trip and will take the floor in our
defense.
One man in a hundred is hardly missed, but one
man in five out of a basketball team leaves quite a
hole and the squad has been working hard to fill the
hole left vacant by the absence of a regular. Just how
well it will be done shall be seen in this game. All
will be interested in the outcome of this game. Much
depends on it.
THRIFT IN HEALTH
Eat and drink such an exact quantity as the con
stitution of thy body allows of, reference to the ser
vices of the mind. They that study much ought not
to eat as much as those that work hard, their diges
tion being not so good. The exact quantity and
quality being found out, is to be kept to constantly.
Excess in all other things whatever, as well as in meat
and drink, is also to be avoided.
Youth, age and sick require a different quantity.
The measure of food ought to be (as much as pos
sible may be) exactly proportionable to the quality and
condition of the stomach, because the stomach digests
it. That quantity is sufficient that the stomach can
perfectly concoct and digest, and it sufficeth the due
nourishment of the body. A greater quantity of some
things may be eaten than of others, some being of
lighter digestion than others. The difficulty lies in
findingout an exact measure; for lust knows not where
necessity ends.
Wouldst thou enjoy a long life, a healthy body, and
a vigorous mind, and be acquainted also with the won
derful works of God, labor in the first place to bring
thy appetite to reason.—Benjamin Franklin.
The printers started the holiday season last Satur
day with a dinner, as it is their custom to do annually.
They had as guests: Supt. and Mrs. McGregor and
family, District Superintendent O. H. Lipps, Mr. and
Mrs. Reginald Downie and Mr. and Mrs. Turney. It
was an occasion which we all appreciated very much.
Chemawa’s wrestling team has started training with
William Johnson as coach. The team made an ex
cellent record last season. The veterans now out and
working hard are: William Johnson, Dan Collins,
Charles Fagerstrom, Clifford Meachem, Karl Muller,
Eli Karabelnikoff, Daniel B. Ann and Charles Morgan.