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The
HOOP SEASON ARRIVES WITH PROBLEMS
After a more or less up and down season our foot
ball togs are laid away to await the coming of another
year, and basketball claims our spare moments for a
period. Just now we aie homeless so far as a gym is
concerned and the squad journeys into Salem each
evening to work-out on the Willamette University
court. Though our practice periods are short and the
trip to and from Salem every evening is sure to lose
its novelty soon, we can stand it all for as fine a gym
as our new one promises to be.
Two regulars are all that we have to carry on from
last season. Albert Miller and Leonard Vivette are
the boys on whom we will have to pin most of our
hope to lead the team through the storm. Vivette is
now in a forward position while Miller is holding down
his regular berth at guard. It is still too early to tell
about what the season’s outcome will be. Naturally,
with only two regulars present, it is anything but
bright. We have several promising candidates who
are going to be very much in the running once they
get a few games behind them. Last season “Biff”
Jones played in the majority of our games for at least
a period and seems ready to accept all the responsibility
that rests upon a guard. “Biff” is big and fast and
both these are valuable assets for guards. Vincent
Pratt and Warren Wilder are the two most promising
candidates for the center position, though Clifford
Iron Moccasin or Kermit Smith are liable to make a
strong bid for the position before the season is over.
Our chief worry is to find a couple of boys who have
the ability to hit the basket. Year after year w’e have
no difficulty in getting the ball to the goal, but our
trouble comes in sinking the ball. JesseJabeth, Dom
inic Dog Eagle, Robert Thomas, Andrew Hatfield and
Perry Smith are the strongest contenders for the for
ward position just at present and needless to say it is
hoped that among them we will find a couple who have
the gift of making points. Among the guards we have
Philip Corbet, Isaac Shoulder Blade, Wilfred Smith,
Ralph Bird Bear and Peter Hall, to furnish the oppo
sition for Jones and Miller.
Though our football season was officially closed
with our Thanksgiving Day game there still remains
several bones to be picked by our inter-class and all-
star teams, so with them the grand old game goes on.
Last week the Excelsior and Reliance societies, rivals
dating back to the time of their organization, staged
one of the closest and hardest fought gridiron battles
we have seen here this season. Rated as sure loosers,
AMERICAN
the Reliance boys took the field imbued with un
daunted spirit and fighting hearts and won the game 7 to
0. Capitalizing on a fumbled punt recovered on the
Excelsior five-yard line the green and yellow football
team punctured the purple and gold line for the only
touchdown of the game early in the third quarter.
Dowd Franklin carried the ball over and later drop-
kicked for the extra point. Late in the game the
Excelsiors headed for a touchdown, but their advance
was checked just in the nick of time.
With three
yards to go for a score the Reliance forward wall held
and the Excelsior’s last chance was gone. In the clos
ing minutes of the game they made numerous attempts
to pass, but every one was batted to the ground by a
wide-awake secondary defense.
LOCAL
Miss Florence W. Fout of Cleveland, Ohio, arrived
at Chemawa last Saturday and is now on duty here
as nurse in our hospital.
The Y. M. and Y. W. held their Joint Meeting De
cember 7. The topic was “Education.” Christine
Muller presided. There were a number of short talks
and readings by Eleanor Sanderson, Victor Smith,
Lottie Kipp, Peter Emmons, Mylie Lawyer and Har
old Masten. The quartet gave a number. There
was a debate, “Resolved, That all High School Stu
dents should take Vocational rather than Academic
courses.” Affirmative, Essie Bedard, Grace Marshall
and Veda Lajuennesse; negative, Charles DePoe,
Frank Johnson and Fred Sandberg. The judges who
were Miss Judd, Miss Morgan and Mr. Downie, de
cided that the negative side won.
DESERTING THE SHIP
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But suppose we are struggling to start some of these
teams, or that they are having a hard time to survive,
few indeed can be found “so poor as to do them rever
ence.” The primal worth of the games remained the
same regardless of whether they were boosted to suc
cess or were abandoned to perish by the wayside.
Mass formation again.
In almost any proposition or project a “rat” can
be found—a fellow who gets aboard early and who de
serts on the first rough sea. We shun him when we
recognize him, but often we know him not until he is
aboard ship with us and we feel it is too rude or too
impolite to kick him overboard.
Students, and others, don’t be a “rat.” If you get
on any ship be good seamen and pride yourselves that
you have kept and can keep the old boat afloat. There
is glory for all in such a course in life, but ignominy
only for the deserter—the “rat,” the fellow who
“wont.”