The Chemawa American, December 21, 1932, Page 4, Image 4

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T h e C H K M A W A A M E R IC A N
C H EM AW A W IN S O P E N IN G GAMES
On December 9, Chemawa opened their 1932-33
basketball schedule with a win over Lincoln High of
Portland, on the latter’s court. Score: Chemawa 38,
Lincoln 27.
After the long ride and the long hunt for the gym,
the boys did not have time enough to warm up before
the game and occupied the first half doing so. In the
second half the team began to work and piled up a
safe lead. Hatfield and Vivette were the high point
men with 14 and 12 points respectively.
December 13, Chemawa, making their first appear­
ance on the home court, met with a reverse from the
Linfield Frosh to the score of 43 to 38.
The play of the Indians was ragged, and loose
guarding in the closing minutes of play cost them the
game. Leonard Vivette, besides being the high point
man with 12 points, played the best ball for Chemawa.
December 16, Chemawa defeated Lincoln High again
this time to the score of 31-18. During the first half
the teams played on even terms and the score at half
time was 12 to 12, but the Indians began to function
as a team unit in the second half and the score began
to mount up. The guarding of the Indians was more
effective in this game than any other game this year.
Leonard Vivette was again high point man with 14
points, but Isaac Shoulder Blade must also share the
limelight for his fine guarding and all around play.
Chemawa’s independent team known as the All
Stars have won one and lost one in the two games
played so far. They lost the first game to Anderson’s
Sporting Goods Store to the score of 40 to 29. A1
Whitright was outstanding in this game. In a thriller
on December 13, they defeated the Linfield Frosh 22
to 21. Matt scored 10 points and played the best ball.
December 17, Chemawa defeated Washington High
55-26 to make a clean sweep of its games with the
Portland teams. When the regulars were in the game
Chemawa had things their own way and led 35-7 at
the half. Sam Shoulderblade scored 17 points to lead
the team in the scoring, Hatfield followed him with
14 points.
Chemawa’s B team opened their season with a win
over Parrish Junior high of Salem to the score of 27
to 18. Matthew Cook was outstanding. In a return
game Parrish Junior high defeated Chemawa’s B team
17-18. Luke Markishtum was outstanding with 7
points.
Chemawa plays Silverton Friday night. Silverton
eliminated us from a chance at the state tournament
last year.
A week ago last Friday the wrestling team went up
to the Salem Y. M. C. A. and participated in a meet
that represented three teams. Meeting much harder
competition this time than the week previous, the
matches were filled with tense moments. Terrance
Courtney started the fireworks by getting a fall in less
than three minutes from a very agressive opponent,
Whitefeather won his bout by default but had things
his own way all the way through. Wilbur Pepion,
Dumont, and Mueller wrestled a draw each.
Monday night five members of our boxing team and
Fred Motschman, their coach, went to the Multnomah
club in Portland and gave the winged “ M” leather
pushers a real beating—winning four out of five bouts.
Indian Service News
PHYSICAL DIRECTOR
Miss Hilda Bernards of Ogden, Utah, has been appointed
g irls’ physical director at Phoenix.
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“ H IG H SCALERS”
C American Indians have been called upon to perform an un­
usual and dangerous p art in the construction of the Hoover
Dam, said to be the greatest engineering project since the P an­
ama Canal. Six Apaches have been hired as “ high scalers.”
Their job is to hang from ropes and, while partially supported
by flimsy scaffolding, chip oxidized rock from the faces of the
canon cliffs. Several men have already lost their lives at this
hazardous task, but the braves make a specialty of this work,
having served previously on the Roosevelt and Coolidge dams.
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v a l u a b l e E X PE R IE N C E
C, For the past several summers H askell boys have gone east
to summer camps conducted by the Y. M. C. A., Boy Scouts
and other organizations to serve as camp counsellors. They
have been given special training in leathercraft, story telling,
Indian dances and games and similar subjects at the Institute
and in the course of the summers have been very successful in
their work. Through the medium of these jobs they have been
enabled to earn a little money and make profitable personel
contacts. In many ways their experiences have been invalu­
able.
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A pa poo se
<J Another little brother has been presented to the family of
Indian service publications in the form of the M t. Pleasant
In d ia n H erald of the Mt. Pleasant (M ich.) Indian School.
Supt. Christy enclosed a word of greeting to the A merican
staff w ith the H erald and we were happy to receive both the
paper and greeting. The M t. Pleasant H erald is neat in ap­
pearance and through its contents presents a picture of a con­
tented and happy group of students who take a great deal of
pride in the good appearance of their campus and are trying
to develop an unusually wholesome atmosphere throughout
the school.
“ DOC E IN S T E IN ”
That is the name given to George Thompson by fellow school
mates at Haskell Institute because George had an uncommonly
inquisitive turn of mind in regard to electricity and things
scientific. Other students expressed themselves in song and
the like. George said it w ith experiments and made gadgets.
But science littered “ Doc E instein’s” room so badly with old
radio parts, cast-off generators, old loud speakers, transmission
wire and odds and ends beyond description that, in the in ter­
est of good housekeeping, the matron had to declare a scientific
holiday. But the matron and George’s advisor found a “ lab­
oratory” for George in some unused basement, and the young
investigator is now happily established in his new headquarters
—which is a mecca for all boys interested in experim enting and
is rapidly becoming one of the interesting spots on the H as­
kell campus.
Who knows—maybe someday a great Indian
scientist will rise from this little shop.