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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (April 8, 1931)
Page 4 The VBEMJMK AMERICAN the teams from Salem and Silverton high schools. make this a memorable affair in every way. We hope to HONOR ROLL CHEMAWA WINS OPENER The curtain of our 1931 baseball season was rolled back last Friday afternoon when our baseball squad journeyed across the country to exchange times at bat with Silverton high. To further prove that history repeats itself our ball-tossers again nosed out the Silvertonians in a first-game, nip and tuck battle by the identical score of 4 to 3. Except for the first half of that first inning three of our braves tagged the home plate for tallies. But no such luck rested in store for Silverton. Our battery of Leonard Vivette, pitcher, and Roy Meachem, catcher, worked with the accuracy and smoothness of mid-season form and were able to keep themselves out of tight places and Sil verton pretty much in the hole. However, there were three times that the boys across the flat appeared at the point of niching us for a couple of runs, but in each instance our twirler went to work calmly under the direction of our catcher and they rode the high seas of the storm nicely. Vivette struck out 14 men, allowed but seven well scattered hits and walked two, which is not so bad for the first game. Burch, pitcher, and Rudihouser, catcher, the same battery that worked for Silverton a year ago, struck out nine batters, allowed four hits and walked two men. The slight difference in play, like the score, was the errors made. Four were chalked up against Silverton and two for our team. With the score 3 to 2 in our favor, Roy Meachem drove in what proved to be the winning run by a long clout that reached the tall timber. Peter Hall, who had preceeded Roy at bat, scored from third and touched the bags on a long drive that found its way over the center fielder’s head. Though the team is still in the adjustment period the line-up was as follows: Roy Meachem, catcher; Leonard Vivette, pitcher; Peter Hall, first base; Theron Kala ma, second base; Uriah Alexander, short stop; George Thomp son, third base; Herman Palmer, left; Philip Corbett, center, and Harold Masten, right field. Weather permitting we will entertain West Linn’s baseball team here on Friday afternoon. On our way home from Silverton we met with a car that had waltzed around on the highway in the flooded district and head ed straight for deep water. One wheel was dangling in the water and the rest of the car appeared ready to topple over. Anyhow, our ball players soon had the car back on the road and a grateful couple happily on their way. Last Thursday Peter McClusky won, for the second time in succession, the amateur heavyweight wrestling championship for the City of Salem. Seven of our boys entered the match, and although all reached the finals, Peter was the only one to bring home any of the spoils. This meet brings to a close a very successful wrestling season for our team. Aside from win ning six out of seven matches some individuals have established most enviable records. Peter McClusky not only defeated the state champion, but made a short-time fall record of sixteen seconds in the P. N. A. meet at Portland. And although they have faced the best competition in the Pacific Northwest Leroy and George Pepion have not lost a match by a fall this season. Much credit is due Coach Sanders and his boys for a very fine record. Though much work was done on our track in an improvement way little was done in an athletic way last week on account of the weather, but with every ray of sunshine our runners and jumpers were busy preparing for the triangular meet that will be held here on April seventeenth. Our boys will be hosts to For the period ending March 27, 1931: H igh H onor R oll (Students who have no grade below 90.) 12th Herman Goudy, Thelma Norman, Marie Picard. 11th Theresa Newman, Frank Plaster, Josephine Hughes, Bennie Pukitarik. 10th Elsie Balch, Lucy Billy, Della Snider, Alice Lad- deioute. 9th Martina Azure, Josephine Forrest, Irene Thomas. 8th Lester Jefferson. H onor R oll (Students who have an average of 90 with no grade below 85.) 12th Lawrence Pete, Fred Sandberg, Warren Wilder, Ella Contway, Roland Booth, Edith Doore, Ida Pelican, Nedra Galbreath. 11th William Flowers, Matthew John, Wendall Silver thorne, Everett Sandberg, Essie Bedard, Peter Pa quette. 10th Frances Jones, George Goujon, Anna White, Lil lian Billy, Theodore Thomas, Alice Jones, Charles Gardepi. 9th Bessie Scott, Oletta Edsall, Maggie Sam, Eunice Buck, Violet Johnson, Luke Markishtum, Frances White, Caroline Duncan, Florence Allman. 8th Oletta Starr, Adam Williams, Cyrus Katchia, Rob ert Hewson, John Spencer, Russell Bobb. 7th Bennie Jones. Just recently we received a letter from Mr. Cruz Mc Daniels, who at one time was a student at Chemawa. Cruz is now a mature man of the world and is holding a government position at Concho, Okla. He is very capable musically and not long ago he started a band at Concho and from a sample program sent us there is ample evidence of good methods and talent not only on the part of Mr. McDaniels, but on the part ot the boys themselves. We congratulate Bandmaster Cruz and his band.
