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THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
The CHEMAWA AMERICAN
Published Weekly at the Salem Indian Training School
Chemuwa, Oregon.
Please address ail communications to
Ruthyn Turney, Manager.
JAS. H. McGREGOR
SUBSORIPTION
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Superintendent
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ATHLETIC NOTES
Last week our readers were warned not to be sur
prised if our team met its second defeat of the season
when they played the Salem Black Cats on Tuesday.
But it pleases us to announce that the Cats were de
feated 30 to 26. We also wish to verify the statement
of many that it was “some game”—not a dull moment
in it, but a battle-royal to the end.
Considering that these same Black Cats held the
O. A. C. varsity to a 28-26 score just a few nights
previous makes it a signal victory for our team. Even
to have held them to a close score would have been
nothing short of remarkable. But our team took the
lead from the start and by playing superior ball held
it until almost the close of the game, when the Cats
tied the score, 24 all. At this point the veteran Black
Cat five forged ahead, 26 to 24, and were now Scratch
ing more viciously then ever and for a moment it
looked like another victory gone. But the splendid
fighting power of our team, coupled with the un
daunted spirit of our student body and band, evened
up the score, 26-26. That which preceeded this tie
score and what every one thought was wonderful
basketball proved to be just child-play compared with
what followed. We cannot describe the speed of that
game. The words “fast” and “speedy” sound like
snail motion compared with the way those ten men
tore around the court to win the game. Here our
band struck up “On Chemawa” andon they went,
and in the last two minutes they held the ball almost
continually and dropped two more counters through
the rim for the final score.
Never have we witnessed a game when the enthus
iasm ran so high and the interest so keen as was shown
in this game. The yelling and cheering of our boys
and girls would be hard to equal. The way they re
sponded to their cheer leader was wonderful. Their
singing accompanied by the band had real and telling
effect and because of it Captain DePoe, Dewey Matt,
Pete Rassmussen, Roy Peratrovich and Eldred George,
all of whom played a whale of a game, were able to
“bring home the bacon.”
But on the following Saturday these same five boys
journeyed to West Lynn where the team of that school
put the skids under them 34 to 26. Our boys fought
desperately, but the 19 to 7 score of the first half was
too much of a lead to overcome.
That man, “Over-confidence,” is a bad actor and
once in his clutches the victim is seldom released with
out first paying the price of defeat. Victory is sweet,
but it must be paid for by hard work before as well as
during the contest. West Lynn has a fine team
and they are counting strongly on walking off with
the state tournament honors, but our team didn’t wake
up to that fact until it was too late and their desperate
efforts were in vain.
The best time to count your victories is after the
game, for it is always the little fellows that pull the
unexpected and spill the “dope” bucket.
Tonight we play the City of Portland team here.
We should lead them to the woods, but if we really
do so it will be with a struggle and we beg for the fine
support of our student body and band.
OUR GIRLS IN PORTLAND
Nine girls of the Chemawa Y. W. C. A. drove to
Portland on Sunday afternoon to give the program
for the Vesper Service of the Portland Y. W. C. A.
The large auditorium was filled with interested listen
ers.
Grace Peterson presided and introduced the
various people who appeared on the program, includ
ing Harriet Hill, who led the devotional service, Flora
Dexter who acted as pianist, the girls’ quartet, Grace
Johnson, Emily Ivanoff, Harriet Hill and Grace Peter
son, who sang two quartet numbers, and Anna Perat
rovich. who gave the main talk of the afternoon on
the subject of four-fold life, and the need of every girl
developing this all-around life. In the audience were
some fifteen or twenty former Chemawa students, who
came to the platform at the close of the program and
joined with the other girls in singing, as a closing
number, our Y. W. C. A. hymn, “Follow the Gleam. ”
A group of these former students, including Ida
Escholt, Josephine Sommers, Josephine Nelson, Emily
Johnson, and Julia and Martha Fratis, had prepared a
delicious supper which they served to the Chemawa
girls before they started home. The crowning sur
prise of this delightful supper table was an immense
decorated cake bearing the word “CHEMAWA” in
red letters on the white frosting. This was the gift
of Mrs. Lola G. Baldwin, and needless to say it was
much appreciated by the fortunate ones who had a
share in it.
Miss Eakin accompanied our young
ladies on the trip.
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