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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
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3
3
5
3
0
10
1
9
0
2
2
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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.