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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 18, 1928)
THE CHEM AWA AMERICAN PAGE 2 The CHEMAWA AMERICAN Published Weekly at the Salem Indian Training School Chemawa. Oregon. Please address all communications to Ruthyn Turney, Manager. Superintendent OSCAR H. LIPPS SUBSCRIPTION 50 Ots PER ANNUM ATHLETIC NOTES On Wednesday evening our basketball girls played their first game against the Scio high school at Scio. The first half ended 10 to 10. The game was every bit as close as the score. However, our girls fell far below our expectations. On the home court they pass and maneuver fast and accurately, but against Scio they held back and did not break away. As a result they had to be satisfied with the small end of a 19 to 20 score. The last half was even faster than the first and the score see-sawed leaving first one team in the lead and then the other. In the final fifteen seconds of play Scio caged the basket that gave them the one-point margin and the game. After the game our team was most delightfully en tertained by the Scio girls, their coach, and other school officials, at a supper served in the domestic sci ence rooms. Everyone enjoyed their very tastily pre pared supper. Our girls and their coach, Mrs. Downie, are not moan ing over the loss of the game, but are hard at work correcting some of the faults that were revealed in the contest. The work of Alma Morrigeau and Pauline Pratt was outstanding. Alma’s accurate shooting netted four teen points for our team. Clarinda Quenel made the other five. Martha Packineau, jumping center, Marr garet Maupin, side center; Pauline Pratt and Susie Grounds, guards; Gladys Ladderoute and Neva Clair mont, spares; rounded out the squad that made the trip with their coach and Mr. and Mrs. Mason. About three weeks ago we gave the fast South Parkway Aces credit for giving our basketball team a trouncing in Portland. The outcome of that game was Parkway 33, Chemawa 22. Last Tuesday a week a return game was played here. The first half ended 17 to 15 in our favor. The game ended with the overwhelming score of 46 to 24 in Chemawa’s favor. To account for such a reverse in scores we should say that it was a vastly improved team that met and defeated the Aces here. The boys played almost flawless ball. They displayed a smoothness and a polish in their play that would be hard to equal and a finesse that Parkway could not solve. The first half was a battle, as the score indicates, but as the struggle went on our team increased its swift passing attack until the Aces’ defense fairly crumbled before it and they scored almost at will. To point to any one of our team and say he was the On Thursday evening our boys’ team continued the star of the game would be unfair, for every man work that so characterized their play against Parkway played his position with telling effect. They passed, and thoroughly trounced the Company “L” legion faked, pivoted and dribbled and maneuvered about team from Dallas, 41 to 26. The speed with which the court with that sureness and speed which usually our ball tossers took the ball from the tip-off and spells victory. passed and pivoted their way to the goal, and contin In a recent issue it was pointed out that constant ued throughout the game, was too much for the vet hard work and determination will do wonders on a eran legionnaires to keep pace with. basketball team, as it will in anything else. Our It will be remembered that the Legion team took squad has worked hard for just what they did against our boys “bug hunting” early in the season, but ours the Aces, so the glory is all the more theirs. It looks was a vastly improved team whose offense was too like they have finally arrived. It is hoped they will terriffic and whose defense too stiff for them to repeat. continue to improve and work diligently and reap the Eldred George and Jesse Prettyman, our young but benefits of victory, as they did last Tuesday. speedy and dependable forwards, darted and dashed The Line-up: to the goal to register 18 and 10 points respectively. Chemawa 46 South Parkway 24 Peter Rassmussen, center and captain, accounted for Eldred George 16 RF 9 Sampson three; George Meachem, guard, three; and Roy Per Jesse Pretty man 8 LF 1 Beaudry atrovich, guard, six: and James Spencer, who relieved Peter Rassmussen 12 C 10 Rosen Rassmussen at center, made two. Clifford Meachem Roy Peratrovich 6 RG 2 Kramer relieved Prettyman late in the first half. George Meachem 4 LG 2 Smokey Two interesting games will be played here this even Substitutions: Chemawa, Clifford Meachem for Jesse Prettyman; James Spencer for George Meachem. ing when our varsity meets the Salem Blackcats for Parkway; Westerman for Kramer; Kramer for Smokey; the first time this season and the Scio high plays our Smokey for Sampson. Official, Mason, Salem. girls a return game.
