THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
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The CHEMAWA AMERICAN
Published Weekly at the Salem Indian Training School
Chemawa, Oregon. Please address all communications to
Ruthyn Turney, Manager.
OSCAR H. LIPPS
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Superintendent
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ATHLETIC NOTES
Our basketball season came to a close last Monday
evening, a week, when our girls’ sextet and the boys
of our Hotshot squad played the high school teams of
St. Paul.
The two girls’ teams had met earlier in the season
and St. Paul emerged the victors in the closing sec
onds of the game with a 22 to 21 score. The result
of the first contest was a little too close to be comfort
able for St. Paul’s hoopers and they started in “high”
with the very first tip-off. The closeness of that
game let in a ray of hope for our girls and they
plunged into the fray with speed. The first half was
as close as it was fast and neither team was able to
gain more than breathing space between the scores.
However, St. Paul’s basket, just before the end of
the half, gave them the big end of a 10 to 7 score.
With the start of the second half came the sudden
conversion of three baskets by the Saints and a slump
in the playing of the Chemawa basketeers. From
then on St. Paul was never in danger. Their guards
checked so closely that our forwards were allowed
very little opportunity to get away. In fact, they
were allowed to score only one field goal and one
foul throw in the second half, but they never let up,
and in spite of the score played hard and fast every
inch of the way. It was the hard and fast work of
St. Paul’s veteran organization that told the tale,
which ran something like this: St. Paul 24, Che
mawa 10.
In the second game of the evening the Hotshots
defeated the St. Paul boys 22 to 13. The “Hot Ones”
took an early lead and were never headed. Though
it was their first game of any consequence this season
they played fast and smart basketball throughout.
Simon Rankin, one of the several members of our
“mosquito fleet” who got into the game, started at
guard and his fast, flashy playing was one of the
features of the contest. Levi Frank and Leonard
Vivette, both members of the same fleet, put them
selves much in the limelight by very ably playing the
forward positions. Ronald Leaske, center, and Isaac
Curley, guard, rounded out the starting line-up.
Both played a hard and aggressive game. Ronald
won high point honors with ten markers to his credit.
Isaac played an exceptionally close checking game.
St. Paul was very much enthused over the games
that were to be played and a large crowd was in at
tendance and a friendly yelling and cheering contest
ensued for a period between halves. Royal Holst,
one of our cheer leaders, accompanied the teams over
and surrounded himself with nearly all of our repre
sentatives who were not actually engaged in the game
and gave a real peppy example of Chemawa cheering.
The spectators’ cry for “more” proved to us that our
side won. After the games the St. Paul people proved
to us that they could do other things well. We were
served a very tasty and wholesome luncheon and every
one enjoyed it. On top of that we were extended a
most cordjal welcome to come again. We hope to be
able to do it.
FEBRUARY HONOR ROLL
Following will be found a list of those students whose work
and deportment during the last month entitled them to a place
on our honor roll:
Seniors
Moses George, William Johnson, Raymond Jones, William
Markishtum, Alfreda Kipp, Rose Smith and Margaret Maupin.
Juniors
Russell Hayward, John Frenier, Clifford Meachem, Lawrence
Crofoot, Ethel Davis, Cleo Plasteur and Vina Smith.
Sophomores
Myron Anderson, Robert Hall, Joe Matte, Eldred George,
Charles Morgan, Fred Motchman, Robert Perkins, Aaron
Sookum and Eula Hudson.
Freshmen
Fred Sandberg.
Eighth Grade
Jasper Athanum, Hans Jack, Benjamin Pikutarick, Henry
Reynolds, Harold Brown, Myrtle Rinehart, Lillian Trottier,
Mary Poitra, Joy Yellowtail, Christine Muller and Fannie
Shurlock.
Seventh Grade
Harold Lewis, Edna Wesley, Idella Curtis, Ina Curtis and
Isabel Bernard.
Miss Earlougher’s classes gave the last Wednesday
assembly programs. In the morning Victor Sisson
recited “The Last Leaf” by Holmes, Stella Fox read
a biographical sketch of Luther Burbank, and Mary
Emily Hauser asked current event questions. In the
afternoon a group of girls sang “The Spring Song,”
and there were “Short Sketches of Intereresting Boy
hoods with March Birthdays,” Alexander Graham
Bell, Katherine Sisson; Leland Stanford, Ivy San
derson; Luther Burbank, June Wright.