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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 15, 1928)
PAGE 2 THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN The CHEMAWA AMERICAN will. Our boys put up a hard fight, but they could not stop the Hill-toppers who intercepted our passes, blocked our shots, and converted them into baskets. They raced up and down the court with lightning Published Weekly at the Salem Indian Training School speed and shot baskets with deadly accuracy. Every Chemawa, Oregon. Please address all communications to man on our squad was sent in to stop the “massacre,” Ruthyn Turney, Manager. but Columbia could not be stopped. It was their night to celebrate the opening of their brand new OSCAR H. LIPPS .... Superintendent gymnasium, which is very fine and complete in every way, and they did it up brown. SUBSCRIPTION 50 Cts PER ANNUM On Saturday eight of our wrestlers went to Corval lis where they met the team of that high school. Out ATHLETIC NOTES of the eight matches our boys won four, tied two and Last Friday our boys’ and girls’ basketball teams lost two. Yet they tell us we lost the match 78 to 72. went to Portland where the girls defeated Reed Col This is a little more than we can understand. Every lege 32 to 22 and the boys lost to Columbia by the one of the eight matches was full of fire, fight and overwhelming score of 43 to 24. The girls’ score action. Our boys expected all that and have a great few would indicate an easy victory, but it was only by deal of respect for the record the Corvallis lads have playing a better game of basketball than they have made. Bill Johnson, captain of the team, Karl Mul shown so far this season that enabled them, in the last ler, Charles Morgan, and Dan Collins, all won the minutes of the game, to win by such a substantial score match over their opponents after a hard battle. Tom over the fast Reed team. Our entire team played ex Anayah and Clifford Meachem had to content them ceedingly well, but the playing of Alma Morrigeau selves with a draw, while Charles Fagerstrom and and Clarinda Quenel was nothing short of brilliant. George Nicholson were put down the necessary num In the last few minutes of the game, when the score ber of times to lose. However, it must be said in all was uncomfortably close, our team stepped on the gas, fairness that George Nicholson, in order to get on the so to speak, and Alma and Clarinda caged a number card at all had to wrestle a man 15 pounds heavier of pretty baskets. It did not seem to matter much than he, which of course, was a tremendous disadvan where they intercepted the ball it finally wound up in tage to him. Anyway that match was one of the the basket after nicely executed fakes, pivots and closest of all. Our team is to wrestle here sometime bounce passes. The playing of both teams was un this week. Tomorrow evening our basketball team will go to usually fast and free from fouls. Albany to play Albany College. On Saturday they The girls who made the trip and all of whom got will play the Willamette University freshmen at Salem. into some part of the game are as follows: Alma Our team has been so inconsistent about its playing Morrigeau, Clarinda Quenel and Neva Clairmont, this season that it is hard to predict the outcome of forwards; Martha Packineau, center; Margaret Mau either of these games. Albany has a big, strong pin, side center; Pauline Pratt, Susie Grounds and team, and are expecting to give us a drubbing. The freshmen have the strongest team they have had since Qladys Ladderoute, guards. they don’t know when, and have walked rough-shod Just as soon as the girls’ game was over they hur over all the high school teams of Portland, so have in ried across the city to Columbia, where they arrived vited us down to give us a sample of it. However, just as the first half came to a close and the score our boys have never been beaten by a W. U. Rook team, but, like anything else, there is always the first stood 19 to 7 against us. Ida Audette, who is now attending Commerce High time. We’ll wait and see. in Portland and who, by the way, is doing exceeding Mrs. Codding of Marshfield visited her daughter ly well there, along with Mabel Bremner, Grace Peter Elizabeth this week-end. A number of employees inspected the new buildings son, Florence Douglas, and Zelma Johnson who was at Mount Angel College on Sunday. spending the week-end with friends in Portland, Everything is just humming now on the new unit joined our girls. With Ida as their yell leader they of Winona Hall. When completed this new dormi made up the snappiest little cheering section ever tory for girls will undoubtedly prove a source of both heard. They seemed to put that necessary “some pride and convenience. thing” into our team, for they scored three baskets The Nonpareil Literary Society held their meeting in rapid succession at the start of the second half and in the auditorium on Feb. 10, 1928. A very interest cut down Columbia’s lead considerably. ing program consisting of miscellaneous numbers was In the final period Columbia threw a bomb shell rendered. After a few songs and yells the society ad into both our offense and defense to score almost at journed.
