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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (March 28, 1935)
P age 4 T he CHEMAWA AMERICAN BASEBALL IS LAUNCHED The weather man doesn’t know it but baseball sea son at Chemawa has been officially launched. The first game of the season is to be played at 3:00 P. M. Friday, and it is to be played at Chemawa. The Mol lala Whippets are reported as being good and now we will be able to see how the local boys stack up. As the season has just begun we are not able to prognos ticate just who’ll be on the starting line-up. How ever we are quite positive that we will see some excel lent work done at first base by that smiling Roy Kal ama boy. And if you’ll look hard enough you might see somewhere on the field, Chemawa’s little man, Vernon “Jelly” Jackson. Other outstanding turnouts are: Edward Jones, pitch er; Lloyd Baker, catcher; Melvin LaCourse, short stop; Matt Adams, left field; James Large and Pressley LaBreche, 3rd base. TRACKSTERS WARMING UP The call for track candidates was issued and it was answered like when you say “free eats”. A little bet ter than 30 Copperskins signed up and in a few days we will see who has the most cinders in his eyes. Only three of last year’s rabbit chasers remain and they are: Matt Adams, William SpottedEagle and Dan Motanic. The rest are all new to the game but if they hail from the wilds of the reservation, running is sec ond nature, we hope. INTRA-MURAL SPORTS The wind and rain has been raising havoc with our athletic field and has been depriving the different classes from playing class games and also practice for the varsity baseball team. Just wait until the spring days begin, the horseshoe pits, volley ball court, in fact the whole athletic field will be as busy as a one armed paper hanger with the “seven year itch”. GLOVE TOSSERS The boxing team, under the able coaching of Mr. “Texaco” Rickard, has not been heard of lately. They have been competing with the best of them and are in demand whenever a good show is needed in our neigh boring towns. On February 26th, the boxing team joined in with the Salem Y. M. and met the team from the Portland Boxing School. Peter Seltice, the boy who makes them wonder what he eats to develop such a punch, won a close decision from a well known am ateur, Jack Burbank. Peter used a little science coup led with Indian medicine and something else. Must have been our “aunt.” James Tory lost a close decision to Jack McDonald, after a hard punching fight. On March 13th, the boxers again met some tough competition with the Portland Boxing School and the Moultnomah Athletic Club. Sam Shoulderblade lost by a knock-out to Paul George, Pacific Coast champ, in the fourth round. Virgil Nuckols, new to the ring game but was plenty good to win by a knock-out from Harry Christenson in the second round of a five round scheduled bout. Louis Jamison, who substituted for Peter Seltice in this bout, lost a close decision to Jack Burbank, after a hard fought five round bout. Wilfred Cline, whois developing a very good left and makes use of it, won a decision from Jack Diane. On April 2nd, our boxing team will venture to Port land with the Salem “Y” for a return bout with the Portland Boxing School and the Multnomah Club. The bouts will be at the Labor Temple. GIRLS’ MUSIC CLUB At the next meeting June Courville will have charge of the program. Elizabeth Polotkin, one of our members’ has a new radio. Miss Merceline Seltice, a former member, called on campus friends recently. Fireworks A fire-cracker temper is just about the worst affliction a painting contractor can have. When everything seems to be going lovely and the prospective customer takes his seifiller in hand to squirt his signature on the dotted line, a single question, sometimes a single word, confuses the painter. He loses his bearings and just as quick as “boo” he goes up in the air and comes down on the back of his neck. Nothing will quickly set off a gunpowdered painter as to be asked about a material or tool of which he knows nothing about. He is apt to think that the prospective is trying to put something over on him, play horse with his seventh cylinder, and blows off, gets a fit of temper that burns him up and when he comes down it is “ashes to ashes, dust to dust,” ignorance made that painter bust. Anti-Love Vitamin A doctor humorously relates that a new vitamin has been discovered which is especially beneficial to young men whose fancies have all turned to—ahem. He calls it vitamin X and says that it has been found to be present in garlic in large quan tities. For those who are becoming inciepient sufferers he sug gests that they carry a piece of garlic in their pocketsand nibble whenever the symptoms occur. Senior Voc.: Have you heard the latest, its all over the house. Freshy: Why no, something interesting no doubt. Senior Voc: Why, the roof little one.
