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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 8, 1928)
THE CHEM AWA AMERICAN PAGE 2 The CHEMAWA AMERICAN Published Weekly at the Salem Indian Training Schoo! Chemawa, Oregon. Please address all communications to Ruthyn Turney, Manager. OSCAR H. LIPPS SUBSCRIPTION .... Superintendent 50 Cts PER ANNUM ATHLETIC NOTES Last Tuesday evening both the boys’ and girls’ bas ketball teams from Linfield College were defeated here by our basketeers. Our girls won 15 to 10, making their second victory over their opponents this season, while the boys evened up matters with a 30 to 26 score. Earlier in the season both of our teams went to Linfield where they divided the honors. Our girls won by the overwhelming score of 27 to 15, while the boys were defeated. The Linfield game marked the third hard game in the week for our boys and they weakened under the strain after holding them in the first half to a one- point margin, and lost 37 to 25. In the return game the Linfield girls came determined to even up the score and really played a fine, hard game, but were un able to make headway against the close guarding and quick checking by our centers and guards. These four played a fast and effective game. They worked the ball about the court with little fumbling and some what improved passing, but somehow our forwards failed to function in a like manner. At Linfield they played a beautiful game. They executed all the fundamentals with telling effect and appeared fast, but since that game they seem to have lost the art of maneuvering. We are hoping they will recover that lost form before the next two games, which are near at hand. Our line-up: Alma Morrigeau and Clarinda Quenel, forwards; Martha Packineau, jumping center; Margaret Maupin, side center; Paul ine Pratt, captain, and Susie Grounds, guards; Neva Clairmont, spare forward. After ten days of rest our boys conquered Linfield in a highly exciting game which ended in the already mentioned score 30 to 26. The game was as close as the score and was a battle every second of the time. Linfield led off by throwing two field goals and con verting one free throw for a five point lead in the first minute or two of play. It looked a little like defeat for our team, but a steady and sure scoring pace soon changed the outlook and we gradually closed up the gap that separated the scores of the two teams. At the close of the first half the score on the board was, Chemawa 20, Linfield 20. Peter Rassmussen, our lanky center and captain, was our high-point man in the game at Linfield, so was heavily guarded here. In spite of that fact, Peter caged two baskets at the opportune time and then de voted his efforts to an effective defensive and passing game. As it was in the first half, so it happen in the second, that the score was tied several times and it was only in the latter part of the third period that our team gained the lead to hold it until the end of the game. Both teams played clean, fast basketball, and it was indeed a pleasure to have both of the Linfield teams here. Eldred George and Jesse Prettyman, forwards, accounted for ten and eight points respectively, while Jim Spencer, George Meachem and Roy Peratrovich, scored two each. In an even more thrilling game than that of Tues day evening our boys thoroughly tamed the Black Cats from Salem, 33 to 23, on Thursday. Gill, of O. A. C. fame, scored a basket in the first few seconds of play by a long shot from the center of the court, which set aflame the fastest hoop game we have seen here this season. There was no stalling about or feeling out, nor any time-worn preliminaries, but both teams waded clear in the hilt to salt away the game just as quickly as possible, and a roaring basketball game resulted. The first half was a “bear.” It ended 14 to 12 in our favor. Needless to say those first twenty minutes were jammed plumb full with wild and frenzied dash ing about by both Black Cats and Redskins and no ball ever traveled faster nor went farther in such a short time. The spectators sensed the spirit of the contest and were in and out of their seats as basket for basket was exchanged and the teams fought desperately to gain a safe and comfortable margin. In the second half our five presented the most ef fective defense we have seen this season. The Cats failed to penetrate it even once during the entire third period. Our forward wall kept the visitors so successfully at bay that their long shots failed and their short passes were intercepted or blocked by our guards. In this period our basketeers, all of whom played almost flawless ball, rang up eleven points while they held their opponents to one foul throw. Thus at the end of the third period the score stood 25 to 13 in our favor. The fourth period was a continuation of the first three, in the way of fast basketball, and subsided only with the timer’s whistle terminating the game. It was a game in which every one on our team did himself proud and thoroughly trounced a veteran and well seasoned organization by their machine-like team-work. Captain Rassmussen led his team with 14 markers to his credit. Jesse Prettyman followed with eight, and Eldred George seven. These three played with deadly consistency all the way through and figured prominently on the defense as well as our high-point makers. Roy Peratrovich and George Meachem started the game in the guard positions, but were re moved because of fouls. Spencer and Joe Peratrovich relieved them and we dare say that these fellows played so well that their entrance into the game did not weaken nor mar the functioning of our team. They seemed to fit in perfectly. Friday the boys go to Portland to play a return game with Columbia University and the girls play the Molalla high school at Molalla. Both of these (Continued on page 3)
