THE CHEM AWA AMERICAN
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The CHEMAWA AMERICAN
Published Weekly at the Salem Indian Training Schoo!
Chemawa, Oregon.
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Ruthyn Turney, Manager.
OSCAR H. LIPPS
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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
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