THE CHEM AW A AMERICAN
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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
The three-day sojourn up the Columbia river from
which our basketball team returned late last week was
thoroughly enjoyable as well as successful. Our first
stop was at Portland where we met Franklin high and
defeated them 50 to 36. The next day the team went
on up to Hood River. It was pleasant indeed to know
we made and left friends there while on a similar trip
to that part of the state last year who heartily welcomed
us back. We dare say the number has been greatly
increased, for the game was played before a large
friendly crowd that heartily applauded the playing of
our boys as well as that of their own team. A more
enthusiastic, appreciative lot of basketball fans we have
yet to see. The crowd was in an uproar till the very
end. In fact the referee’s whistle could not be heard.
He stood in the center of the court and wax ed his hands
to stop play. The 54 to 8 score by which our team
won the game did not dampen the spirits of this loyal
crowd nor the playing of the plucky Hood River team,
and they have won our highest regard for their sports
manship and gameness.
It seemed that everyone in the town turned out to
see the game. They were there from the little ones in
arms to the old gray-headed grandmas and grandpas
and packed in until there was not even standing room
left. And they liked it. They thoroughly enjoyed
seeing their boys in action, who played hard, clean
and fast to the very end.
Our team was still going strong when they met The
Dalles so they also went under 30 to 7.
The playing of the team was quite consistent through
out the trip and they lived well up to the reputation
that preceeded them that they were a swift passing
aggregation. At Hood River they were all that those
fine people expected of them. Every man was “on”
and their passing and basket-shooting was speedy and
accurate. However at The Dalles the court was so
small and the playing so cramped that little opportuni
ty was afforded in that respect. Yet few long shots
were attempted and all but a very few of our baskets
were made from beneath the goal.
Peter Rassmussen, our regular center, stopped to
get his hair cut in Portland and missed the bus. The
team went on and naturally expected him to follow
them to Hood River. But Pete never showed up. He
came home. Of course just as soon as the boys ar
rived home they inquired about Peter and they learned
that there was a party here Saturday evening. Of
course the boys all know’ that Peter didn’t come back
on that account, but that he actually missed the bus.
Anyhow his absence caused the team considerable
anxiety, for he wTas our regular center and a wonder,
ful asset to the team. But that all blew aw’ay with
the Hood River game, for James Spencer, sub-center,
played a fine game in that position. However, in the
game at The Dalles things did not go so smoothly and
changes w’ere necessary. Captain DePoe wyas switched
back to his old position, at center, and Jesse Pretty -
man went in at running guard. Again the difficulty
was taken care of and the machine started work
ing. An old gentleman who was traveling with us
would warn the boys at every stop not to get their
hair cut. It has been decided that all hair-cutting
w’ill be done at home hereafter.
Dewey Matt and Reginald DePoe were our heavy
scorers on the trip, and in fact, they were regular
scoring machines w'ithin themselves. Against Frank
lin Dew’ey made 30 points, 35 against Hood River and
13 against The Dalles, for the total of 78 points. That
¡s rolling them in quite regularly and is somewhat of
a record. However, he was ably assisted by the
swift, neat passing of his team-mates who shot the
ball from one end of the gym to the other and were
responsible for the low’ score to w’hich they held their
opponents.
LOCAL
Capt. Jean K. Stacy of Chemawa and Miss Marion
Morgan of Spokane, Wash., were married in Salem on
Wednesday morning by Rev. F. C. Taylor. All joy
to the newly married couple.
Immediately after the
wedding ceremony the newdy married couple came out
to Chemawa, where Capt. Stacy is senior teacher in
our high school. In the evening the couple w’ere given
a rousing send-off by the entire student body. The
newlv-w’eds are now in quarters in Brew’er Hall. All
success to them.
Mr. Riley, who has been with us for the past few
months as temporary bandmaster, w’ill be succeeded
next Saturday by Mr. Robert R. DePoe, who is a reg
ular service appointee. Mr. Riley has proved himself
both able and agreeable to our people, young and old.
and w’ill leave many friends here when he departs from
Chemawa. On assuming his new duties here Mr. De
Poe will have the good will of everybody, coupled
with the hope that he may be mos successful in giving
Chemawa a fine band. Mr. and Mrs. DePoe come
here from Neah Bay. Wash.