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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
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Superintendent
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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.