The CHEMAWA AMERICAN
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FISH BEAR LIVING YOUNG
It is a good thing for our students to give a little
serious attention now and then to natural history. We
just read in the The Pathfinder quite an unusual arti
cle on a certain specie of fish, and believing that many
of our young readers may not be averse to consulting
their dictionaries we are passing the article to them.
Here it is:
Many fishes give birth to living young. There are
three general types of reproduction among fishes—ovi
parous, viviparous and ovoviviparous. Each of these
types has many a minor characteristics in the fertiliza
tion, deposition and development of the eggs. The great
majority of fishes are oviparous and lay their eggs in
the water, where they are fertilized externally by the
males. But some species, in fact some entire families,
are viviparous and produce living young from within
the body.
However, most so-called viviparous fishes are really
ovoviviparous, namely living young are produced from
eggs fertilized by copulation and retained within the
body during their development, but without forming
an attachment to the oviduct through which nourish
ment is derived from the mother. In this class are
most rays, as well as numerous members of several
other families.
The true viviparous fishes, such as the moonfishes,
Mexican swordtails, surf fishes, guppies, and the
common top minnow’s, not only give birth to living
young hatched from eggs fertilized by copulation, but
the young are nourished within the body through
placental connection with the mother. Female sword
tails have been known to produce as many as 100
young at a birth. The young are capable of taking
care of themselves immediately and in most cases they
must seek shelter from their cannibalistic mothers
who try to devour them.
LOCAL
Robert Peratrovich, Jr., and his sister, Miss Helen,
arrived in Chemawa last Monday to spend the holi
days with friends at their old school. At present they
are both living in Seattle where Robert is a senior in
the state university and his sister is attending high
school. They are both getting along well in every
way.
Miss Edna Grove, supervisor of home economics in
the Indian Service, arrived in Chemawa last Wednes
day evening on official business. Her duties carry her
over the greater part of the United States—we often
wonder what her annual travel mileage would total?
Miss Grove, when at Chemaw^a, is not far from her
home in Corvallis, Oregon, where she is to pass her
Christmas, returning to Chemawa later. Miss Grove
is well known to the majority of us at the school and
she is always a welcome visitor.
SSTHLETICS
BASKETBALL NOTES
Last Monday evening thirty-two basketball candi
dates plunged into practice with but one object in mind
and that was to make the team. While it is almost
impossible for that many to make the first squad, yet
we have never enjoyed so many real contenders as this
year’s turn-out presents. Before the suits were issued
or anyone had a chance to show what he could do on
the floor it was thought that our prospects were any
thing but bright. Yet in the first week of practice
this squad has turned the dark clouds inside out. They
have revealed the fact that we are not only blessed
with three or four good men but that we have in the
neighborhood of that many teams. The boys have
competition and plenty of it. The fact that we will
be represented in three classes this year instead of one
probably has had something to do with this wealth of
material. Many of those who were for sometime only
considered “Would be’s’’ are now very much in the
running.
The two out standing centers are John Marsden and
Isaac Curley, but they are being’pressed so hard by
Warren Wilder and Jim Scott that there is but little
difference between them.
Last year our team could roll the ball through the
net in practice in rapid fire order but for some reason
or other they fell off in the games. The new squad is
not hampered with that habit. Practice or game they
are finding the basket remarkably well for this time
of the season. A whole herd of shooters are among
those present and a few of them are: Jesse Pretty
man, Alonzo Hoover, Marcus Simmons, Leonard Vi-
vette, Jesse Jabeth, Herman Goudy, Albert Miller and
Clifford Case. These boys are waging the keenest
struggle for permanent forward positions we have seen
here in years. If grit, strength and determination
holds out in this department as we expect it to in the
center and guard positions ours is going to be a hard
team to beat. Bill Jones, Joe Alexander, Julian
Smith, Harry Archambeau and Benny Charley are all
good-sized guards and’have been making their presence
felt. Not in a contact way but by close, fast check
ing and handling the ball. Should Isaac Curley and
Leonard Vivette fail in their chosen positions they are
apt to land among the latter group mentioned. Both
are good shots and would be ideal guards. The dark
horses are showing up. The next issue will probably
have something about them.