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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
SUBSCRIPTION
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Superintendent
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50 Cts PER ANNUM
ATHLETIC NOTES
So far this season our baseball team is undefeated.
With two games remaining on the schedule there is,
of course, a chance that the honorable opponent may
trip us up and break our long chain of victories.
But the boys realize what might happen and are not
over-confident to the point of carelessness. Even so,
eight straight victories out of eight games is an envi
able record. Just when Chemawa trotted her last
undefeated team on the diamond is not recalled, though
many formidable aggregations have gone to bat for
and have won many beautiful silver cups that now
grace the trophy case to denote her prowess on the
baseball diamond. The team of 1913 came nearer
iieing undefeated than any nine in recent years.
That season Chemaw’a won fifteen straight games.
Then lost the sixteenth and last to Willamette Univer
sity, 5 to 4, after defeating her decisively in four
previous engagements. That season, like the present
one, did notappear overly bright at the outset, but
the players worked hard and in harmony, and a
strong team developed.
This season several weak spots loomed up in our
nine with apparently no one to fill them. Third base
threatened to give the most trouble. With a weak
man at such an important post our infield was sure to
be woefully weak in spite of the fact that the other
positions were well taken care of. James Spencer
seemed to have developed over night and he improved
with each practice and every game. It is certain the
present infield with Eldred George on first, Clifford
Meachem on second, James Spencer on third, George
Meachem at short and Solomon Fleury in the box and
Jake Atkins behind the bat, is really the strongest
and best all-around infield the school has had in years.
All of these boys play their positions well and have
the faculty of hitting in the pinches. They look and
play the part of ball players in every respect.
There
is not a weak arm in the whole of the sextet.
They
whang the ball around the diamond with the grace,
ease and speed of a really professional organization.
Our infield has not been weak at any time this season,
although there has never been more than one man in
it all season with previous experience, and there has
been constant changing there since the season began.
Orin Johnson and Law’rence Pratt have been the most
dependable, and they, like the infielders, have been
consistent with the bat. Isaac Curley, Alonzo Hoover,
Roy Meachem and Joseph Alexander, all first year
men, have entered at different stages of the game and
have never weakened its defensive or offensive strength.
Solomon Fleury, our pitching ace, has started every
game and has never been seriously threatened at any
time this season. At the start there was some fear the
team w’ould be doubly weak without a relief pitcher.
But William McCorkle and Al Goudy turned out to be
able substitutes. There is every possibility that these
two will be the main men in our pitching and receiv
ing staff next year, as both Fleury and Atkins will be
lost through graduation.
As well as being our chief strike-out man, Solomon
led the boys in batting. He has turned in an aver
age that w’ill likely stand as a record here for some
time. At present his batting averge is exactly 605.
Jake Atkins follow’s with 504 and George Meachem
comes next with 464. Any one of the three is a fancy
record average, but Solomon’s is a record. Fleury
and Atkins are tied for first honors in scoring runs.
Each have crossed the plate thirteen times for a score.
George is close upon their heels again with twelve.
Following is the result of the games played thus
far:
Chemawa 21 Salem High School
3
Chemawa
4 Willamette University
1
Chemawa 12 Willamette University
5
8 Columbia University Hi
Chemawa
0
Chemawa
7 Einfield College
6
Chemawa 10 Albany College
5
Chemawa 18 Columbia University
8
Chemawa
7 O. S. P.
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LOCAL
This week the orchestra is supporting the rehearsals
of the cast on “Pocahontas,” the operetta to be given
for the public next week. All is going nicely.
On Sunday evening just after dress parade, our
band gave a pleasing concert. It was pretty w’arm for
dress parade, mercury standing at about 90 in the
shade.
Owing to the fact that our commencement exercises
w’ill be on tapis next week there will be no issue of
The American.
In all probability our next issue
w’ill be the “Senior Number” of our paper. It will be
quite a large issue, but just exactly the date of
issue we are unable at this writing to predict with
any certainty. We believe that it will be worth wait
ing for—patiently.