The Chemawa American, May 16, 1928, Page 2, Image 2

THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
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Tilt 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
Chemawa 18, Columbia University High 8, was the
score by which our team won from the Portland team
in its second game this season. The game was played
in Portland last Thursday. With the bases full,
Eldred George drove in the first three runs in the first
inning with a long hit over left fielder. The hit was
good for a home run, but Eldred stumbled and fell
over himself at first and was later thrown out at third.
From then on it was a parade around the bases tor
our boys. In all they found the Columbia pitchers
for seventeen hits and ten free passes to first.
Columbia scored two runs in the third inning and
in the sixiF. —Fleury Feld-the PortfafidetsUjiUes^
until the fifth inning. In the sixth Columbia started
a rally that looked like a tidal wave. They bunched
seven hits and scored six runs. Three of them were
triples, one a home-run, and three were doubles. It
was the only time this season a team found Fleury for
any amount of hits and the only time he was unable
to master and crush a hitting rally. With a runner
on first and none out, William McCorkle took the
mound and with his rounding curve and slow ball the
side was retired. The first man went out on a pop-up
fly and our double play combination from Meachem
to Meachem to George went out on a one-two play.
On Saturday the Oregon Prison nine was defeated
7 to 3. Our team started with a bang and scored two
runs in the first inning when Sol Fleury whanged out
a home-run with Jake Atkins on second. What
looked like a walkaway at the start turned out to be a
very close game and a pitchers’ duel with Fleury hav­
ing the advantage.
After the first frame both nines tightened up and
played fine baseball. Both pitchers were given
good support. In the seventh our batsmen bunched
four hits and scored as many runs. In their half of
the seventh the staters found Fleury for three hits and
three runs and were ready to score three more.
With three men on bags and none out, Fleury
tightened up, struck out two men and allowed the third
to fly out to right field and relieved a situation that
threatened to tie the score. From then on Solomon
held the opposing batters at his mercy and struck out
five of the six batters that remained to face him.
Fleury and George Meachem furnished the thrills of
the game. Fleury, with his fine exhibition of pitch­
ing in the tight places and a home-run, and George
Meachem with a pretty catch that he pulled out of the
air back of second that looked like a certain hit, but
George’s big mit and long arm cut it off and retired
the side and saved two runs. He also had a big day
at bat, making two doubles, one single and two free
passes to first out of five trips to the plate.
Against Columbia, Fleury was our batting ace.
Out of six trips to the plate he lined out one single,
two doubles and one triple and earned three free
passes to first out of six times at bat.
This week the team plays Albany College a return
game here.
Delilah Snyder and Harriett Hill went to Portland
on Friday evening to attend the graduating exercises
of the nurses at Emanual Hospital. Edna Hill, Har­
riett’s sister, of the class of ’22, was among those
graduating at Emanual Hospital. Misses Eakin and
Judd accompanied our girls.
We have just learned that Mr. Fred Bruce is at.
present in government service at White Rock, Utah,
in the capacity of disciplinarian at the Indian school
of that place. Some years ago Mr. Bruce was in
Chemawa for a time as bandmaster.
He is an
unusually fine clarinetist. Many friends in this sec­
tion will be pleased to know his whereabouts.
During chapel last Sunday evening Captain Trow­
bridge, special inspector for the Interior Department,
made a short talk in which he mentioned the many
places he had visited—the various Indian schools,
reservations, etc. He had numerous nice things to
say of Chemawa and we are very happy to know that
such was the case. He especially urged our students
to do their utmost in getting hold of what Chemawa
offers them, admonishing them against growing lax
in any way. Supt. Lipps followed Captain Trowbridge
as speaker and devoted a brief period to stressing the
fact that it is not numbers that go to the making of
a good school, but the general status of the students.
There is to be a general “tightening up” in the future
and the demand made upon our student body will be
such that our graduates will be better prepared than
ever to meet the tests of civil life later on. The pro­
gram, as outlined, should and undoubtedly does, meet
the hearty approval of all serious students. Sunday
was “Mothers’ Day” and the orchestra and choir,
and a special quartet of young men singers, all gave
numbers honoring the mothers of the land.