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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1928)
THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN PAGE 2 The CHEMAWA AMERICAN Published Weekly at the Salem Indian Training School Please address all communications to Chemawa, Oregon. Ruthyn Turney, Manager. OSCAR H. LIPPS SUBSCRIPTION .... Superintendent 50 Cts PEB ANNUM ATHLETIC NOTES Last Tuesday evening a week our basketball girls went to Indendence high school and were smothered under an avalanche of baskets and the overwhelming score of 31 to 12—the biggest and most one-sided score handed our team so far this season. Independence has a fast team. It appeared to be so fast that our girls fairly stood around and watched them play. Our guards were caught flat-footed much of the time and allowed themselves to be drawn out of position repeatedly by the faking of their opponents while they ran through a clear field to score a basket. Our forwards seemed to have given up the ghost even before the game started. They had but very little success in passing the ball and were never able to get away to a clear shot at the basket, and found them selves guarded easily when they attempted to get in the open to take a pass. In short, poor passing and the lack of team work characterized their play through out the game. A recent issue of the Morning Oregonian notes, in its column of what happened 25 yearsago, that Chemawa and the Reliance Club of Oakland, California, played an 0 to 0 game in a sea of mud on the Willamette University field in Salem. Our line-up of that game shows the names of: Dyke, Godwin, Shaw, Gibson, the Decker brothers, Booth, Moon, Teabo, Eddie Dav is, Billy Arquette and Reuben Sanders. Mr. Sanders still figures prominently in athletics here. He has charge of our wrestling and track teams, as well as our painting department. The records show that Standford, University of California and Multnomah Club were on the Chemawa schedule that year. The big universities emerged victors, but Multnomah was defeated. We have talked to one who played in the game in which the “nose guard” incident was supposed to have occurred and told in quite some length in the sport column of the Morning Oregonian just recently. He called it a “funny story,” for no Chemawa team, as a whole, ever used nose guards, and its stars were Chemawa-made, pure and simple, and not a collection from all the schools of the country. Considerable interest is in evidence over the class cross-country run that is to take place soon. This event is apt to uncover some new and valuable ma terial for our middle-distance track events. Coach Sanders and his grapplers are on the mat every evening and are apparently in good shape for the return match with the Oregon City high school team. We are getting anxious to see the team in action. The boys did so well in their first match on such short notice that we will “unjustly” expect every one to “flop” his man. Our baseball team will have new uniforms this spring. The cloth which arrived just recently from a big firm in the East is first-grade material and will make up splendidly and undoubtedly last a long time. Our present uniforms were made five years ago by Mr. James and his force of tailors and they certainly have stood the “gaff.” To date our Pioneer Club basketball team has played and won four games. That is really a fine record when the teams they have played is taken into consideration. The boys in the club range between the ages of 10 and 14 years. In every instance they have battled against opponents who towered over them like giants and most always had the big end of the score at the close of the first half. Yet in the second half, by shear grit and determination our little fellows have won in every instance. Their line-up follows: Clarence Weaver, George McGriff, forwards; Albert Miller, center; Peter DePoe, Benjamin Pikatarruk, guards; Fred Donnelly, Sergie Bozeroff, spares. So far this season their games show the following scores: Chemawa Pioneers 21 Galloping Ghosts 12 Chemawa Pioneers 16 Unlucky Five 8 Chemawa Pioneers 22 Unlucky Five 19 Chemawa Pioneers 32 Salem Comrades 22 SOCIETIES ELECT OFFICERS Last Friday evening our various literary societies elected officers, as follows: Reliance: President, George Meachem; vice-presi dent, Joe Matte; secretary, Moses George; treasurer, Jacob Atkins: yell leader, Royal Holst; sergeant-at- arms, Cecil Stagner. Excelsiors: President, John Edelman; vice-presi dent, Henry Bowker; secretary, Francis Ross; treas urer, Charley Fagerstrom; sergeant-at-arms, Gideon B. Grub; yell leader, Clifford McLeod. Winona: President, Emma Sexton; vice-presider.t, Ivy Dupuis; secretary and treasurer, Lorraine Jude; cheer leader, Helen Donnelly; sergeants-at-arms, Helen Peratrovich and Mabel Peratrovich; critic, Vera Korter. Nonpareil: President, Cleo Plasteur; vice-president, M. Maupin; secretary, P. Pratt; treasurer, Alfreda Kipp; sergeants-at-arms, Tillie Larsen and Martha Packineau; corresponding secretary, Zelma Johnson; cheer leaders, Oxcenia Hendrickson and Carmen Chamberlain; critic, Dot Parker.
