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The CHEM AWA AMERICAN
Last Tuesday afternoon our team received the first
set-back of the season by a high school team. The
Columbia university preppers did the trick. The final
count was 10 to 6. Columbia got into the lead in the
first inning with a tally. In the second our nine evened
up the count. In the third Columbia’s hitters solved
Peter Seltice’s fast curve and bunched four hits, three
of them doubles, and sent four runners across the plate
before Leonard Vivette could be called in from left field
to stem the tide. With none out and the bases full,
Leonard went to work. He fanned two batsmen but
the fifth tally of the inning was scored before the side
was retired. Up until the eighth he pitched a foxy game,
allowing but two hits. However, in that inning Col
umbia’s heavy artillery went to work again, and as
sisted by our two errors and their three singles, they
ran their figures up to 10.
With the score 6 to 1
against us our tossers came out of their slumbers long
enough to start a rally in the fifth inning and tie the
score 6 all. Though our players started several rallies
after that mad rush around the bases none of them
matured to the point of scores. A libtless start re
sulted in several errors—eight in all—and each was
costly.
On Friday the team gathered up their bats and togs
and headed for Monmouth to play the Oregon Normal.
Though the team was tackling an aggregation sup
posedly out of their class they were determined to
square themselves for the defeat of a few days previous.
Vivette once more ascended to the mound and both
he and his teammates did such an admirable job all
the way through that they kept the teachers setting on
their haunches while they won a well-earned and well-
played game of baseball by the decisive score of 6 to 1.
Though the teachers outhit our batters with eight hits
to seven, Vivette kept them so well spread out and his
teammates rendered him such good support that they
pulled out of many tight places. Completely reversing
their form our nine played smart baseball and as a re
sult nipped several of the teachers’ rallies just in time.
Only two errors were made by our players and they
immediately erased them by neatly executed plays, such
as a double or a perfect throw from left field to home
to cut off a runner.
Our battery, Captain Meachem and Leonard Viv
ette played a heady defensive game and were also ef
fective with the bat. Meachem scored the first run of
the game in the first inning on Vivette’s two-bagger.
Peter Hall, first; Harold Masten, second; Uriah Alex
ander, short; Ferdinand Thomas, third; Peter Seltice,
left field; Philip Corbett, center field, and Sherman
Alexander, right field, all played smart, capable base
ball and deserve credit for the masterly way in which
they kept this game in hand.
Last Saturday Coach Sanders entered a dozen of his
track men in the state interscholastic field meet held
at Oregon State College. To say the least it was a
great privilege to take part in this annual event where
five hundred of the state’s best high school track men
were entered. Albert Miller was our only boy to bring
home a prize. But the effort that all made and the
manner in which they represented our school gives us
cause to feel proud of them. Albert tied for second
place in the high jump.
Last Sunday Peter Hall was called home because of
the sudden death of his mother. Our sympathy goes
out to Peter and the rest of his family. Peter, our
first baseman, is a valuable and important member of
our baseball team. His teammates and many friends
share with him the great sorrow that is his.
Friday our team plays its big and most important
game of the season against Salem high at Salem. With
Theron Kalama, our second baseman, on the sick list
and Peter Hall, our first baseman, called home because
of the death of his mother, the rest of the team will
have an added responsibility. If we defeat Salem our
team will be the undisputed champions of the county.
Lose and we go into a tie with Salem.
THE SWASTIKA
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them from running with them, but that made the sticks
even wilder.
In their presence everyone had to have the deepest
respect for them. If a man wore his hat one would
immediately seek him, no matter how far behind
the others he would be, and it would knock the
hat off his head.
If one should be laughing or
making fun at it, it would find him.
The ladies
couldn’t sit with their legs crossed or sit in any un
womanly position.
It is told that long ago, when more powerful doc
tors possesssed these sticks, that they could trust in
the sticks to find lost articles, or find food for them,
or even lead them to guilty persons, and prophesy dis
asters by certain signs.
Many people call these sticks the Swastika sticks,
because they are shaped similiar to a Swastika.
Mrs. Brickell will leave within a day or so, chaper
oning Marie LaFrance, Alice Slater, Theo Bird and
Margret Hoptowit, who are to be employed at Hotel
Davenport during the summer. This is a wonderful
opportunity for our girls and they have a chance to
help in the establishment of a field that ma}' be builded
ever bigger and better.