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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (June 3, 1931)
Page 4 The CHEMAWA AMERICAN BASEBALL TEAM ENJOYS VICTORIOUS WEEK During the past week our baseball team brought its season, which has been more than a successful one, to a close. Three teams were met and each one in turn was defeated. After laying claim to the “A” league championship by virtue of all victories and no defeats, the “B” league champions extended to us a challenge and they, too, were added to our collection of trophies. Leonard Vivette took the mound for us, and though they found him for eight hits, he seldom got into a place he was not able to work out of. Except for a couple of little “bobbles” he might have turned out another shut-out game. He struck out nine batters. Our team collected ten hits off of Naftzer. The final score was 8 to 2 in our favor. On Friday the Columbia University preppers of Port land came up to try their hand in an effort to trim us once again. Columbia turned the table on our ball toss- ers in Portland just a few weeks ago and furthermore were the only ones to make us suffer defeat. But a whole squad of Redmen were on hand Friday to win back that lone defeat. Peter Seltice took the mound for us in Portland against Columbia and he was hit pretty hard then Vivette went to his rescue, but too late. On Friday Seltice once more trod to the mound and he more than strutted his stuff. He was invincible. Columbia couldn’t touch him. From the first until the last he kept them handcuffed. Only in the sixth inning were they able to meet the ball for a solid swat and two con secutive errors allowed two runs and away went Peter’s scoreless game. But at that he pitched a whale of a game. He had everything. Curves with a fast break, change of pace and slow balls were worked in perfect unison to the end that Columbia never became danger ous. They were just tied up, that’s all. Along with Peter’s good pitching traveled a team that played a fine game. Determined to win back that lost game, Cap tain Meachem strode to the plate in the first inning and slammed out a home-run for a perfect start. Right through the batting order the team traveled. Masten singled and Leonard Vivette made the second home- run of the inning. Those two four-base swats were the hardest drives we have seen here this season. Both traveled on a line past the fielders and rolled far enough to allow both hitters to jog across the plate. In that inning our team scored five runs. After that they made one in the third and two in the fifth inning for a total of eight runs. Making the score 8 for Chemawa and 2 for Columbia. Identically the same as that of the game against Gerv^s on Wednesday. The next to fall was the Rainbow Red nine from Tacoma. Our team was primed for a tough battle and took the field full of determination, for advance notices of the Tacoma team did not sound like we were in for an easy afternoon. But it did not take long to put the game on ice. Again Captain Meachem started his hitters off right. The first man to bat, he drove out a nice two-bagger. Masten followed with a drive to Centerfield that bounced free and Masten touched all four bags for a home-run. From then on until the sixth inning our hitters rounded up enough base hits to make a couple runs each time. But the sixth was a wild and furious time for the Rainbow fielders. Our batters ran them ragged with twelve hits. Six of them were singles, two doubles, three trippies, and one home-run. Uriah Alexander made the home-run. After the inning the book showed thirteen runners had crossed the plate making a total of 23 for us and 0 for Tacoma nine. Thus came to a close a successful base ball season. The following is our line-up as they per formed this season: Roy Meachem, captain and catch er; Leonard Vivette, Peter Seltice, pitchers; Peter Hall, first base; Theron Kalama, second base; Uriah Alexander, short stop; Harold Masten, third base; Francis Ray, Clarence Elliot, left field; Philip Corbet, center field; Sherman Alexander, right field. Summary of the season’s scores: Chemawa Chemawa Chemawa Chemawa Chemawa Chemawa Chemawa Chemawa Chemawa Chemawa Chemawa Chemawa Total 4 6 10 11 2 6 6 18 13 8 8 23 115 Silverton high school Linfield College Woodburn high school - Salem high school - Woodburn high school - Columbia University prep Oregon Normal School - Salem high school Silverton high school Gervais high school Columbia University prep Rainbow Reds—Tacoma • - - 3 3 5 3 0 10 1 9 0 2 2 _0 38 LOCAL Our fine new gymnasium is now in use and was the scene of a couple of “socials” last week. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Galbreath were with us from Browning, Montana, to see their daughter, Nedra re ceive her diploma. Mr. Nelson A. Mason gave a talk to the faculty members and the student body last Saturday evening and pleased all with his address and his pleasing per sonality. Mr. and Mrs. B. G. Seymour of Browning, Mon tana, and Mrs. Ellsworth H. Sowder of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, arrived here for a visit with Mrs. Lipps and family before their departure for California. Mrs. Sey mour and Mrs. Sowder are daughters of Supt. and Mrs. Lipps and the latter was for a time a teacher here in our domestic art department.
