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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (April 9, 1930)
1 he CHEMAWA AMERICAN Page 4 LOCAL The shoemakers repaired 539 pairs of shoes during the month of March. This was a lot of work. During the course of a two-days meeting of the Older Boys’ Conference, held in Salem last Friday and Satur day, Fred Sandberg of Chemawa was elected president of the Marion-Polk County unit of this organization. This is certainly an honor for Fred and it makes all of us here at the school both proud and happy. Assistant Superintendent Mote was in charge of our chapel exercises last Sunday evening and chose his experiences as a teacher in the Philippines as the sub ject of his talk. He was over on the islands for ten years; his wife was with him and their first son was born there. Mr. Mote gave a splendid description of the country, its history, and its products, together with most interesting data on the people and their mode of living. It was in many ways an outstanding talk and aside from the interest of the narrative it was of great educational value. From it he drew a lesson of real importance for our young people. In addition to Mr. Mote’s talk the choir sang a good number and the orchestra played a “Musical Fantasy” by Luders. ESCORTS Sat., April 12—To Salem ----- Mrs. Bent Sun., April 13—McBride....................... Miss White Asst. Matron Winona Winona - - - - Asst. Carpenter Miss Earlougher Hawley - - - - Mrs. Codding Mr. P. Carrow CHEBUS CHEPAY (Continued from page 1) sands of the beach; Aa-huh-ah slipped, fell and went thundering down—down to those hard white sands! Then appeared Chebus Chepay, Goddess of the Olympics, and bore Aa-huh-ah gently away to her kingdom. There they live, enjoying the beautiful scenery, drinking in the pure mountain air, as intoxicating as red wine. There they wander where the speckled trout waits for the fly. There they listen to the brown thrush warbling to its loving mate! If someday you should happen to wander the Migh ty Olympics, with their westward shores washed by the blue waters of the mighty Pacific, listen to the noises of the mountain, the sighing of the tall trees, the rustling of the leaves, and the sweet melody of the numerous song birds. They are all happy because Chebus Chepay, Goddess of the Olympics, has found her mate. Last Friday afternoon our baseball tossers defeated Silverton high school here in the opening game on our 1930 schedule by the close score of 5 to 4. The score would indicate a good game and it was just that. There was plenty of good hitting and fielding displayed by the players of both teams. Both teams played ex ceptional baseball for so early in the season. Yet the misplays were the deciding factors in the contest. Up to the eighth inning the score stood 2 to 1 against us. Then with two out and runners on first and second Silverton’s short-stop pegged to first instead of touch ing second to retire the side and everybody was safe and gave us the break that enabled us to score three runs to put our team in the lead 4 to 2. Then in their half of the ninth Silverton tied the score. With run ners on second and third, and two out, Marcus Simmons, our center fielder, attempted a one-handed stab that nearly spelled defeat. On his bobble those two runners crossed the plate to tie the score. But here our pitcher tightened up and retired the side. With the score 4 to 4, Jesse Prettyman went to the plate in a business-like manner in our half of the ninth inning and dug up his only hit of the afternoon and later scored the winning run. Who won the game? That is like the old question, “Who won the war?” So many played important parts in the result that it was team-play that enabled our boys to hang on to the long end of the score. Both pi tchers pulled themselves out of some tough places. With men on bases and none out they remained cool and made the batters hit in the pocket or warm the bench. Dowd Franklin, though he had an off day at bat, accepted six chances at short-stop with only a single error. When all seemed lost George Thompson, who maneuvered around third base, drove outabingle that puzzled the short-stop and filled the bases. Uriah Alexander made three hits out of four times at the plate. His third hit accounted for all the things he did not do around sec ond base. Roy Meachem caught a good game and though he misjudged the first two flies he caught the third when it meant the most. Philip Corbett did especially well in the field. He accepted several chances without an error. He also made two hits. So the victory can be chalked up to pretty good team playing. Two games will be played here this week. Wood burn on Friday and Parrish on Saturday. This game with Woodburn is a league game. Last Friday evening Peter McClusky brought home a beautiful gold medal as a proof of his supremacy over the best heavy weight wrestlers on the city tour nament card held at the Y. M. C. A. in Salem. Peter turned in a quick and clean-cut job on all comers and proved beyond all doubt that he stood alone in his class at the tournament The sophomores lost an opportunity to register a victory in the Class League last week when they played two non-members in their line-up and because of it forfeited the game to the fresh men. This week the seniors will play the eighth graders.
