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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 23, 1927)
PAGE 2 THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN The CHEMAWA AMERICAN Published Weekly at the Salem Indian Training School Chemawa. Oregon. Please address all communications to Ruthyn Turney, Manager. JAS. H. McGREGOR SUBSCRIPTION - - - - - - Superintendent 50 Cts PER ANNUM ATHLETIC NOTES Next Friday evening the team will go to Portland to play Columbia University. This will mark the close of our season, unless Chemawa is permitted to enter the Pacific Northwest Amateur Basketball Tournament that is being conducted in Portland the first week in March to determine the championship of the Independent high schools and colleges of the Northwest. Our boys are anxious to get in it. Our girls’ basketball sextette lost to the Silverton high school team here on Friday in a preliminary game to the Varsity-Grand Ronde game by a 9 to 6 score. Until the last quarter it was anybody’s game, but here Silverton looped in a couple of baskets and threw a foul that clinched the game. Our team missed Edna Crofoot, guard, and Anna Jacque, forward, who were unable to play. Though the team was handicapped without these two regulars they played exceedingly well. Our line-up follows: Cecil Smith, Clarinda Quinell. forwards; Susie Hart and Marguerite Maupin, alternated at jumping center; Susie Grounds, running guard; Allison Grinnell and Pauline Pratt, guards. By playing almost flawless basketball our basketeers were enabled to win over the Grand Ronde Indian five here last Friday evening, by a decisive score, in what gave promise of being a very close game. Grand Ronde worked the ball into the basket at the outset with such skill and polish of dribbling and pass ing that our followers had a right to be very much concerned about the outcome. They kept the ball in their possession almost continually and handled it so On Saturday afternoon eight of our wrestlers jour accurately and neatly that it appeared the score would neyed across country via the school bus to McMinn be very much against us. But in a few minutes Cap ville, where they were to take on the Linfield College tain DePoe and his teammates held a consultation grapplers. There was but little wrestling done so whereby they seemed to have devised ways and means far as the number of matches were concerned. Charles to do some fine playing themselves. Soon they were Fagerstrom was the only man that got on the mat. working like a well-oiled machine and the number Linfield pitted their prize-winner against Charley and on our half of the score board grew bigger and bigger, they wrestled to a draw. Though our boys were out while Grand Ronde was allowed only an occasional try weighed considerably they were anxious to take on at the basket. The first half ended 33 to 5 in our the collegians. favor. Our quick, short passing, especially beneath the bas LOCAL ket, kept the visitors in hot water, and this, coupled with Have you seen the picture of the basketball squad? the deadly accuracy with which our five hit the basket, With new cornets and clarinets on the way, Mr. were the features of the game. They looped them in from all angles. Dewey Matt topped the list with an DePoe expects to enlarge his band. even 20 markers to his credit and was closely followed Next Friday evening our orchestra and the mem by Captain DePoe, who gathered in 16, Rassmussen bers of the girls’ octette will present a program at 13, Eldred George 2, Roy Peratrovich 2. At the close Hazel Green. of the third period all but Captain DePoe were replaced. Our orchestra and a group of our boy singers pre The new entrants continued the march. Jesse Pretty sented a program last Friday evening under the au man scored 4 points, George Meachem 4, and Arthur spices of one of the churches at Monitor, about twenty Bruce 2. Joe Peratrovich was the only man who did miles from here. In every way the program proved not get in a scratch or two. But he played an effec an artistic success and was enthusiastically received by tive game at guard. The game ended 61 to 15 in our those in attendance. favor. Mr. and Mrs. H. James of Auburn, Wash., were Though the game for but the first part went very visitors at Chemawa last week in order to see their much against them, the Grand Ronde boys, captained sons, Bert and Lloyd. Mr. James has a splendid and coached by Alpheus Norwest, played a clean, reputation as a carver of totem poles, and justly so. hard game. They never lost hope and fought gamely He brought a couple of specimens of his work with on. Miss Strout and her detail served a most deli him to Chemawa and they were truly wonderful. cious njeal for them at the domestic science building on the evening of the game. The boys thought they We are informed that Supt. McGregor secured one of the totems. were fed too well to play a real game of basketball.
