THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
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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
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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.