T he CHEMAWA AMERICAN
P age 4
as soon as the pitchers learn to keep the change of
space ball out of the groove and get the rubber taken
out of the players’ gloves Chemawa will be expected to
win a few ball games.
BASEBALL
Woodburn Wins Close Battle
Woodburn High defeated Chemawa by the score of
7-6 last Friday at Woodburn. George Baker, who
started on the mound for the Indians, pitched well
for the home guard until the eighth inning when he
lost control and issued out three free tickets to first
base. This generosity on the part of Baker set the
stage for a rally that Woodburn made good. Law
rence Bennett went in at this stage of the game and
he was immediately touched for three runs. This
didn’t hold down the Redskins as they started a rally
of their own by scoring three runs and tieing the
score. Hits by Wilder, Spencer, Jones, and a fielders
choice on “Hollywood” Barr’s roller were the events
that led to the rally. This rally was short lived as Wood
burn soon capitalized on “Hollywood” Barr’s rubber
glove and muff in center field to sew up the game.
There was no depression on errors in this game as
the Indians manufactured nine to lead in this depart
ment of the game.
Chemawa Taken To Camp By Hubbard
The young but aggressive Hubbard nine showed
Chemawa a few tricks about playing heads-up ball
last Friday. George Baker showed improvement in
his pitching by limiting Hubbard to 6 hits. The local
boys in turn were hitting hard line drives to the catcher
and this explains the two hits for Chemawa. Ben
Palmer seemed to be the leader in these drives and be
cause of this he was replaced by ‘ ‘Jelly Belly’ ’ Jackson,
the pocket size edition of Babe Ruth himself. In spite
of the early season defeats Chemawa will make things
interesting for future opponents as the rubber in the
gloves is slowly disappearing and the holes in the bats
are being filled. The hurlers are working into shape
and the infield is coming to life. As soon as the team
shows a little more aggressiveness, self-confidence and
brain work they will be expected to win a few games.
Credit must be given the young warriors as they are
not a bit downhearted and the best of all they have
taken the defeats like ball players and a team that can
“take it” will not be held down very long.
Skids Put To Braves By Home-run Route
Gervais defeated Chemawa 3’2 mainly through the
homerun route. John Blacketer accounted for all of
Chemawa’s runs by a homerun with one on. John
Spencer started on the mound for the Green Redskins
and did a fair job of twirling until he gave away to
Bennett who in turn did a good job save for the two
homers by Gervais’ half-pint third baseman. Just
Silverton Downed 9-3
Yesterday the Redmen pulled one of their favorite
tricks and came out of a slump to upset the apple-cart
of the Silverton nine on the enemy diamond 9-3. The
home guard were all on their toes and smothered every
attempt made by the Foxes. Bennett, pitching 8 of
the 9 innings for Chemawa, allowed Silverton 6 hits
while his teammates garnered 15. George Baker who
relieved Bennett in the last stanza let only one hit out
of his bag of offerings. Just as a reminder, Wood
burn was trounced by Silverton last week, 19-5.
INTER-CLASS TRACK MEET
The annual class track meet was held recently.
Some dark horses showed up and the ones who made
good showings in the events made up the varsity team.
The seniors won easily with 57 points, juniors
second with 39 points, sophomores third with 16 points,
and lastly the lowly freshies with 13 pointers. By
the sequence they won according to their academic
knowledge so the freshies couldn’t take first.
The first meet will be with Salem High on Friday
afternoon, April 13. This will be a practice meet. The
following week we have been invited to Forest Grove
for the Pacific Invitational Meet.
STUDENT NEWS
Tuesday, April 3, Little Flower Society and the
Catholic Boys’ Association held a joint meeting. A
very enjoyable program was given and games were
played. Delicious refreshments were served and the
remainder of the evening was spent in dancing.
A student dance held Saturday, April 7, provided
an enjoyable time for everyone attending. A feature
of the evening was two piano solos by Manuel Mose,
a guest of the orchestra, who attends the Salem blind
school. Manuel is an Indian boy who, although un
able to see, has developed a remarkable talent for
which he was generously applauded. The boys’
quartet sang one of their popular numbers at the end
of the intermission.
Winona hall is harboring a new bride, Miss Mar
garet Drew. Miss Drew will finish her beauty culture
course in April, after which she will leave us.
Mrs. Wilcox, genial housemother at Winona hall,
gave an Easter breakfast for Supt. and Mrs. Ryan,
Mr. Fred Rickard, Miss Donna Mae Lafonso and Miss
Semanski. Breakfast was prepared and served by
Juanita Frye and Pearl Beaumont under the direction
of Catherine Bailey.