The V K E M A M k AMERICAN
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CHEMAWA(g)AMERICAN
Published W eek ly at th e XT. S. In d ian School, Chexnawa,
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ATHLETIC NOTES
Yesterday evening the boys’ and girls’ basketball
teams played at West Lynn. An account of the games
will be given in the next issue. Both teams have been
handicapped all season. . The boys have played hard
but as yet have brought home no bacon. But much
of their ill-luck can be attributed to the fact that so far
only two regulars have gotten into the line-up. The
girls have a new and untried squad. The game last
night was their first. None have had a chance to
show what they can do so we predict nothing.
Next Friday a week our first home game will be
played. Franklin high school comes here. No doubt
all will be glad to see the team in action and the boys
will be glad to play on their- own stamping ground be
cause so far all our games have been away from home.
In all probability a large number of candidates will be
given an opportunity to show their wares in this game,
unless some of our hoopers improve greatly, for though
it is late in the season our team has had so little chance
tp work together that their playing, though hard, is
very ragged at best, and none of the places have been
definitely won. For the past two weeks our first two
teams have battled long and hard every eyening for
supremacy. First one team winning, then the other.
But as it has already been said, they have worked to
gether so little that consistent playing is too much to-
be expected, as still a horde of poorly timed passes are
made, basket shooting very weak, and a sad lack of
proper maneuvering on the floor. Any way there is?
still no need for tears as every tnan on the squad is
playing real hard basketball, and from such keen com
petition something good will surely develop. ,
Eldred George and Jesse Prettyman, forwards; Jim
Spencer, center; Roy Perafrovich and George Mea-
chem, guards, are the boys around whom we had
centered our hopes, but all of them except Roy have:
been slow rounding into their usual playing form.
Roy is playing the most effective guarding game pf his
career. He is faster aud his basket shooting surpasses
anything we hoped for. It really seems that the knack
of shooting baskets has finally come to him. He has
been dropping in from all angles. However, Eldred
George, Jesse Prettyman and Jim Spencer are way be
low par in shooting baskets and working the floor,
which heretofore made them stellar players. They
are comiug along and probably will be hitting their
stride by the time of the Franklin game.
, Isaac Curley broke a small bone in his foot., in r a
game during the holidays and has been out ever since.
Isaac looked like the boy to fill the center position
left vacant by Peter Rassmussan who graduated last
year and a lot of hope rested with him , but his un
timely accident has retarded the progress of the team
tp the extent that we are still trying tp discover a
man for the center position, George Meachem, like
Curley, looked so good at the start of the season that
it was thought he was sure to grab a permanent posi
tion, either guard or forward, but a severely sprained
hand has kept him on the sideline. If these two
bpys recover, and the veterans ever find themselves,
we will have a team, for we have in the boys who
make up the second five the strongest competition
our first teams have had in years and those boys are:
Eeonard Vivette, Dowd Franklin, Marcus Simons,
Alonzo Hoover, Devi Erank, and Jesse Wetzel, for
wards; Ronald Leaske, center; Clifford Meachem,
San Simons, and William Smith, guards. This outfit
trims the veterans occasionally and among them are
some real contenders for places on the team, even
though many of them are first year men.
The fact that every man on the squad is out to win
a place is the biggest ray of hope we have. So far all
of our attempts have been failures, that is, as far as
games won and lost are concerned, and? some of them
bad enough to weaken the strongest hearted, but our
hoopers have not yet turned back but are sacking to
the ship, so we can still look for results. No man is
licked until he yells ‘ ‘ enough. ’ ’ And our boys haven ’ t
yelled.
ESCORTS
Sunday, Jan.
—McBride
Winona
Hawley
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Mrs. Hauser
Miss GunU
- Mr. Frost
Just as we were going to press we learned th at ,Mr,
Ralph Ross, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thos.„Ross of Che-
mawa, had died of tuberculosis last Sunday evening in
Southern California, where fie had been sent a while
back in the hope of benefiting his health. He is sur
vived by a widow and young child in addition to his
parents and other relatives and we extend sympathy
for those upon whom the sad-blow must fall heaviest,'
Too awfully bad!
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