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The CHEMAWA AMERICAN
the game Isaac Shoulder Blade entered the contest as
a guard. Isaac is a new addition to our squad this
year and gives every promise of developing into a guard
of the first class.
WRESTLERS AGAIN VICTORIOUS
Once again our wrestlers are home victorious. Fri
day evening they won their second match over the
Sandy union high school team in a fortnight by a 60
to 54 score. George and Leroy Pepion, as has been
their custom so far this season, led the match and won
over their opponents by two straight falls.
Murray
“Hands” McClusky won his first round by a decision,
but for the first time this season lost his match when
his opponent was awarded the two remainingrounds.
Matthew James lost his first round by a decision, man
aged to eek out a draw in the second, but finally lost
the third by a close decision. “Terrible” Terry Court
ney, after putting up a close and exciting match, final
ly went under by the decision route. Up until this
match Frank Dumont has managed to pin the shoul
ders of his opponent to the mat, but this time he was
forced to become contented with a decision victory.
George Goujon put the finishing touches to the match
and added enough points to our score to enable our
feam to bring the bacon home when he proved master
of his man by two straight falls.
As a preliminary our “B” team lost to Salem’s ”B” team 20
to 14 in a nip-and-tuck contest. Our youngsters had a decided
advantage in possession of the ball, but they fell far below par
in hitting the basket. Russel Bobb and Vincent Pratt, our
chief scorers, were off and as a result looked weak in the
scoring department of the game. Several new candidates got
a chance in this game and among the promising ones are
Thomas Bad Gun and Peter Hall. Both are lanky and real
bright prospects.
Earlier in the week our team won a close and exciting game
from the Grand Ronde Braves 25 to 20. Up until this game
we have never been able to trim the Grand Ronders on their
own floor, but this time our five broke the charm. Andrew
Hatfield, back in his old stamping ground, did himself proud
and led our team with eight points; Dominic Dog Eagle made
six; Captain Vivette, four; Albeit Miller four and Willie DePoe
one. Being without a gym prevents us from bringingthe Grand
Ronde team, which is composed mostly of ex-students, here.
And we are coming to look forward to this annual affair which
has always proved exciting, interesting and colorful.
This week our team will play their most important games of
the season. Again we are in a tie for county honors, which
means that if we can scale the top in these games an oppor
tunity will be waiting for us in the district tournament. We
meet Silverton Friday at Silverton. Last night the team played
at Molalla. Molalla is considered strong.
“THE INDIAN BOARDING SCHOOLS”
CHEMAWA LOSES COURT BATTLE TO SALEM
Though defeated our basketball team put up a real
battle against Salem high school’s speedy five at Sa
lem last Friday. The game ended 32 to 18 against us
but it was not until the final quarter that the red and
black team broke away in a scoring rally to relieve
any doubt about the outcome. The first quarter was
nip and tuck and ended 11 to 9 against us. At the
half Salem led 20 to 14. Salem controlled the tip-off
in almost every instance and though our hoopers
tried desperately to curb this big advantage the red
and black succeeded several times in caging the ball
at the end of a flock of speedy passes.
Captain Vivette and Willie DePoe, forwards; An
drew Hatfield, center; Albert Miller and Dominic Dog
Eagle, guards; played a good game in spite of the
score and showed considerable offensive and defensive
strength except for their inability to sink their shots.
Put there are times when the ball simply refuses to go
through the hoop and this was one of them.
Their
playing could not be called poor in any respect, they
were simply up against a fast, smooth-working aggre
gation.
Willie DePoe made his debut in no small way.
As well as playing a good defensive game he led our
scorers with a total of nine points. Andrew Hatfield
followed with five and Albert Miller four. Late in
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which must make up his environment in a poor frontier
country. His notions of the relation of things are dis
torted; for his mind is not yet developed enough to sift
and assort his observations and distinguish between
essentials and non-essentials, between the comforts
which are within his reach and the luxuries which are
beyond his legitimate aspiration.”
While not unmindful of the many excellent features to be
found in our best boarding schools, candor compels us to admit
the truth of Mr. Leupp's contentions in so far as they relate to
children below high school age and to assert that so far as we
know or have been able to learn, the Indian Service main
tains the only system of schools in the world where children in
the primary and elementary grades, in order to be educated,
are taken from their homes, often long distances away, and
kept for a whole year and more from having any contact with
their people. That this is an unnatural procedure is recognized
by all educators and sociologists who have taken the trouble
to look into the matter, particularly when the practice of plac
ing both sexes of adolescent age in the same school, housedin
large buildings, all eating together in one large diningroom
and otherwise handled in mass formations, isconsidered. There
can be little of home life or of home influence in a large board
ing school with only one or two matrons to care for one hun
dred or more children housed in one large building after the
fashion of old time military barracks, or, in our more modern
plants, after the fashion of college dormitories for adult stu
dents. It is interesting to note, therefore, that the present
administration is giving careful and earnest consideration to the
matter of eliminating as rapidly as possible the younger chil
dren from nonreservation boarding schools. We hope soon to
see the day when there will no longer be enrolled at Chemawa
any pupils below junior high school grade, and that eventual
ly we will have none below high school grades.—O. H. L.