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The CHEMAWA AMERICAN
BALL TOSSERS BEAT WOODBURN
East Friday afternoon our baseball tossers rounded
up another game and defeated the Woodburn Bulldogs
in a very close and well-played ball game that ended
with the score 2 to 0 in our favor. Leonard Vivette,
doing the hurling for our team, held the opposing bat
ters to a single hit. Just by a hair he missed pitch
ing a no-hit-no-run game, however he whiffed 12 bat
ters and none were allowed to go beyond second base.
Peter Hall, first base; Theron Kalama, second base;
Uriah Alexander, short stop; Harold Masten, third
base; Peter Seltice, left field; Philip Corbett, center
field, and Sherman Alexander, right field, contributed
a lot of good baseball toward winning this shut-out
game. Only a single error was committed during the
contest, which speaks pretty well for our up-and.-com-
ing ball team.
Philip Corbett was our heavy hitter of the day. Out
of three times at bat he collected onehom e run, a triple
and a double. The first came in the second inning.
W ith a good sound swat he drove the ball on a line
between third and short and on through the outfield
while he circled the bags for the homer.
Though our batters corraled but four hits off Reed,
the opposing pitcher, they connected for several bard
hits and a few appeared certain to be ip the clear, but
Woodburn’s hustling ball team headed them off just
in the nick of time. Only one error was chalked up
against Chemawa and two against Woodburn.
OHEMAWA W INS VALLEY TRACK MEET
East Saturday afternoon Coach Sanders and his track
men covered themselves with ,glory when they won the
Willamette Valley track and field meet held on the
Willamette University field. Competing with eleven
other high schools, our boys collected 37 points to win
the meet. Peter Emmons played as an important part
in this meet as he did in the triangular meet here re
cently. By winning first in the 220- yard dash and the
broad jump and making a point in the hundred-yard
dash Peter came home with high point honors. Except
for a very poor start on account of the mud he ran a
good race. W ith a leap of 20 feet Peter was well out
in front in the broad jump. His nearest competitor was
his teammate, George Pepion, with a jump of i9 feet 7
inches. The finish of the century race was so close
that the officials had to pull straws to decide the victor
and our own Albert Miller bad to be satisfied with sec
ond honors. Albert also won the high jump by clearing
the bar at 5 beet 5 inches. In the 440-yard dash George
Pepion won a close second, as did Ira Booth in the
mile run. Considering the. fact that our 880-yard re
lay team, composed of Howard Churchill, Peter JEm-
mons, Warren Wilder and Albert Miller, ran against
time and were defeated by the slim margin of a fifth
of a second they did remarkably well. These four
comprise the best balanced quartet of runners we have
had in a t least three seasons. Their defeat under
adverse conditions was the 'first they suffered this sea
son. David Eittle Swallow came in for the final three
points in capturing second place in the javelin. In
every way our tracksters performed in an enviable fash
ion and did themselves proud. This week the team will
go to Forest Grove to compete against the high school
there.
Tuesday ou r team journeyed to Portland to play the
Columbia University preppers and on Friday Salem
high will be met for the second time this season. With
Theron Kalama, our regular second baseman in the
hospital, our defensive play will be hampered some
what and his big bat will be missed. This will neces
sitate a ohange and in his place is likely to go Harold
Masten, who has been playing third", and Ferdinand
Thomas will go back to his. first love.
For quite a long time it seemed like a regular thing
for the junior class to walk off with all the prizes, but
now the wind is blowing the other way and the soph
omores appear to ride on the crest of the championship
wave. F irst they won the inter-class football cham
pionship. Next they took the track and field meet and
now they have safely tucked away the baseball cham
pionship by trimming the long-reigning champions,
the juniors, by an impressive score, 10 to 1.
Who will be the class tennis dhampion? Play starts
next week.
LIPPS AGAIN A MAJOR
Oscar H. Eipps, district superintendent in the North
west and ex-office superintendent of Chemawa Training
School for several years, is to assume charge of the
Sacramento, California, office on May 1. This jurisdic
tion covers some 12,000 scattered bands of tire Golden
State and its administration involves many interesting
problems. Mr. Lipps succeeds Colonel E. A. Dor
rington who was retired some months since. Mr.
Eipps will no longer hear rising bugles and probably
will have the family telephone in his wife’s name. He
can now smoke his evening cigar on hjs own front
porch with no school boys to copy his bad example.
We do not know bow much Mr. Eipps may have desired
the change but we do know that his philosophy is suf
ficient to adjust him to the new situation and that his
superiors will find in him the samé loyal and efficient
sevice which has characterized his long official life in
the varied responsible positions which have been his.
^ N a tiv e American.