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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (May 2, 1928)
PAGE 2 THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN 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 - - - - Superintendent 50 Cts PER ANNUM ATHLETIC NOTES Our cross-country runners defeated the team from Washington high school here last Tuesday. For the past few years our boys have been trying to accom plish that feat and last week their efforts were re warded. It might be well to add that hard work and constant training and not altogether superior runners is what bore the fruit. We have had natural runners in the recent past who were inclined to rely on their native ability to carry them through, instead of in tensive training, and the result was defeat. This year the runners viewed the race in a different light and realized they would be crowned according to their efforts, so they worked and trained along determined lines and the result was victory. And the old and time-worn adage that races are won long before they are run ran true to form. Those who are directly re sponsible for the winning of the race are John Frenier, William Wall, Warren Wilder and George Nicholson who finished in the order mentioned for a total of 30 points against 25 for Washington. On Wednesday Willamette University was trimmed for the second time this season, 12 to 5. Solomon Fleury, our southpaw, held the Collegians at his mercy throughout the first five innings. In the sixth W. U. gathered in two free passes to first and two hits gave them two runs. Fleury gave way to Al Goudy in the sixth, but Al couldn’t find the plate and walked three men in succession. Before the side could be retired those three men scored. William McCorkle relieved Goudy in the eighth inning and held the Bearcats to two scattered hits and no runs. The fourth was the bad inning for W. U. Our batters were given three free passes to first and then made three two-base hits and one triple for a total of eight runs. However, our batsmen hit hard throughout the contest and the Bearcat coach sent in six pitchers in all to stop the onslaught and finally gave it up as a hopeless job. Columbia University high came here Saturday and were trounced 8 to 0. Though the score does not indicate it, that game was close and well played throughout. The university has a scrappy team and they put up a fine game. They played A-l baseball from start to finish. It was not the lack of good playing that defeated them, but the ability of Sol Fleury to keep their hits within range so that the boys could get their fingers on the ball, and the timely hitting of our batters, that saved the day. Our boys scored one run in the second, one in the fourth, three in the fifth, and three in the sixth innings. Lawrence Pratt drove Orin Johnson in from third on a two- bagger for the first run. Fleury scored from second on Eldred George’s double for the second run, and Fleury drove both Isaac Curley and Clifford Meachem in on his triple over right field. Eldred scored Fleury with another swat up against the shops. In the sixth, with Clifford and Isaac standing on the bags again, George Meachem drove out a triple and scored both. He in turn was sent home by Jake Atkins’ timely single. The heavy hitting of our team was not the only feature of the game, as there was some real flashy work done by our infield. They executed three double plays with speed and accuracy. The combination from Meachem to Meachem to George looked real professional. Another double from Fleury to Meach em to George was geared with real class. Our out fielders also had chances that w ere a test and they pull ed some out of the air that looked like safe bits for the instant. Jake Atkins, behind the bat, played his usual peppery, fiery game, and was responsible for a double play that stopped Columbia’s best chance to score. Our line-up: Atkins, catcher; Fleury, pitcher; E. George, first; C. Meachem, second; J. Spencer, third; G. Meachem, shortstop; O. Johnson, left field; L. Pratt, center field; I. Curley, right field. Last Thursday Coach Sanders took three of his wrestlers to Portland, where they took on Multno mah Club’s candidates for the Olympic games. Though they were not successful in downing their opponents they really made a remarkable showing. Dan Collins, Charles Fagerstrom and Tom Anayah, our represent atives, lost only by the scant margin of a referee’s decision. Considering the fact that Multnomah’s candidates are conceded a very fine chance to represent the entire United States at Olympic games this sum mer in this event our boys can justly feel proud of their showing. It might be said in all truthfulness that it was a mighty fine line that divided the differ ence between Dan and his opponent, which was made evident by the roar of the crowd as the decision was rendered. The sophies were defeated by the freshmen last week in a real ball game, 4 to 3. The pitching of Al Goudy finally proved the undoing of the sophies, when in the last inning with the winning runs on the bases the side was retired without one solid swat being allowed. Charles McKay caught a good game for Goudy. Eldred George and James Spencer formed the battery for the losing team and appeared to have the game well in hand until the timely hitting of Roy Peratrovich and Dowd Franklin drove in the winning runs.
