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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.