The Chemawa American, April 23, 1930, Page 4, Image 4

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The CHEMAWA AMERICAN
and William Brown increased, but the rub came in
the half-mile when Frank Dumont faced the cream of
the event and was nosed out for the lack of a sprint.
It was an especially exciting event and evenly run.
Chemawa 7, Gervais 1, was the result of our game
at Gervais last Thursday afternoon. Roy Meachem,
our catcher, pounded out a home run with almost the
first ball pitched. It was a big day for Roy. Out of
six times at bat he made four hits and three runs, as
well as catching a good, game. Charles McKay made
three hits out of five times at bat, which would seem
to prove that he had regained his batting eye. Uriah
Alexander and Leonard Vivette, our heavy hitters,
fell a little below par against Schwab, the Gervais
southpaw, and were held to a single hit apiece. Though
our boys collected a total of fourteen hits they were
found wanting in the pinches. Twice the bases were
loaded and another time two men were on and the bat­
ter fanned out. In all, eleven runners were left to die
on bases. The hitters were just a little too anxious
and instead of being satisfied with a single they tried
-to knock the cover off the ball. A strike-out is nearly
always the result.
Joe Alexander pitched another good game. He
allowed but three hits and struck out twelve men.
Schwab was found for fourteen hits and struck out
three batters. The team has come along at a rapid
rate in the last couple of games. ¿Though they were
charged with five errors, they made few mistakes and
gave Joe good support, especially in the outfield,
where Leonard Vivette, Marcus Simmons and Charles
McKay accepted ten chances and made but a single
error.
Dowd Franklin, Qur short-stop, has had consider­
able trouble up to now scraping up hits, .but he
connected for two sound ones against Gervais and
each one just at the right time. He worked pretty
hard for them as he did not have such a good after­
noon around the short patch.
Jesse Pretty man and Harry Archambeau, first and
third basemen respectively, are developing into team
assets. At the beginning of the season they felt out
of place both in the field and at bat. Against Ger­
vais they made some pretty stops as well as being able
to connect for hits.
Yesterday the team played at Woodburn. On Fri­
day Gervais will come here for a return game,
which will be played at three-thirty.
In an interesting game last week the juniors defeated
the sophomores 5 to 2,
Our distance relay team lost a close one at Vancou­
ver last Saturday. George Little Light gave the team
a nice lead that Albert Miller was able to maintain
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ESCORTS
Sat. Apr. 26—To Salem - -
Sun. Apr. 27—McBride - - -
Winona
Hawley
- Mr. Carl Turner
- - Mr. Larsen
Mrs. Bent
- - Mrs. Turney
Mr. L. Carrow
- - Mr. Downie
Mrs. Downie