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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (March 5, 1937)
The CHEMAWA AMERICAN 4 T his puts them in the lead of the Teague ATHLETICS SUCCESSFUL SEASON IS CLIMAXED BY REDMEN Record Of Scores To Be Published In Next Issue in which they are participating. ---------------- ---------------------- The-Redskins journeyed to Monmouth on February 19 to nose them out by one point on their own floor-. The Mpnmoutfi bôys had two,very good reasons to defeat the braves because they are the Polk County champs and because Chemawa defeated them once before. The Monmopth quintet held the lead through out the game. For some reason the braves couldn’t click and were missing the bas ket. The braves opened up the last few seconds of the g am e.T ra ck , h i 11 i n g the basket from all angles of the floor made the Monmonth quintet hustle, but they were unable to check him. In the last minute play, Track made the baskêt to give Chemawa a 21-20 vie toy. ---- - ....■; » ' I Friday evening, March 26j led by Sfiàw, guard, and Whitman, center, the Woodburn High School defeated the Che mawa Braves 42-39. Woodburn, using a fast break ran up a good lead in the first half. This lead saved the game for Woodburn. At half time the score was for Woodbttrn 27, Chqmawa 19. At the beginning of the third quarter George Christian, Indian guard, was ruled from the game, Sanderville, Substituted for Christian. In the final minutes of play thé teams played very good ball. Tbe Indians were within three points of a tie, but Woodburh field their small lead. In the preliminary game the Chemawa “ Hotshots,” defeated t h e Woodburn second team, 17-16. The Woodburn team led up until the last minutes of the game the score stood, Woodburn 16, Chemawa 11. Jàçkson got hot and made the win ning points for the Indians. The Chemawa Indians defeated the Silverton High School basketball team last Monday night by a score of 30 to 23 on Chetnawa’s floor. The game was fast and hard foiight during the entire four periods. Chemawa lead in th e first half until the final min-' utes when Cross of Silverton put his team in the lead. The score Was L5 to 13. During the second half the'Indians held the-Silver Foxes to'tw o field goals and four free throws while running up seven- teempoints for themselves. The Indians were paced by Bighorn and Archambeau. The Silver Foxes could hot penetrate the Indians strong defense and they could not stop the rampaging Indians, who made one third of their shots good. The Chemawa “ B” team had an easy, time ih defeating the Silverton ‘ ‘B’ ’ team, Coach Wilder used his entire squad. The score was 37 to 12 in Chemawa’s <favor. ----,----------- ---------------------- On February 12 the Chemawa Indians out -speeded Sandy by a score of ^5 to 15 at Chemawa. The Braves took an early lead and were never threatened. They made baskets from all parts of the floor and by the end of the first quarter they were leading by a score of 12 to 2. ------------- — --------------- ---------------- ---------------------- On February 23, theSalem High school Bast week the Chemawa All Stars jour Vikings defeated Chemawa by a score of neyed to Scotts Mill to get revenge for 33 to 20 on Salem’s floor, the defeat handed them oh our own The first half of the game was-played floor. very fast by both teams. Chemawa led The game was fast and close until the at the end of the first quarter and at the latter part of the game. At the end of half both teams were tied 14-14. At the the first quarter the score was 2-0 in fa opening of the second half Salem made vor of the All Stars. baskets from all angles of tfie floor. Dur At the half it was 9-10 infavor of the ing the third quarter they ran their score All Stars. The last five minutes of the -to 23 while they held t h e Indians: game was the beginning of A1 Bighorn’s scoreless. scoring spree in which he came out the The “ B” team lost to Salem high “ B” high point man of the game. The final team by a score of 33 to 15. Salem led score was 19-38 in favor of the All Stars. all the way and were never threatened. CHEMAWA PUGILISTS DRAW WITH THE MULTNOMAH ATHLETIC CLUB Coaefi Motschman and his pugilists journeyed to Portland for a match with the Multnomah Club last Wednesday and won tour and lost four in closely contest ed duels. Roy Pepion won a decision over his opponent in the first bout and William Hilburn, easily defeated his opponent. Duane VanPelt, the red bomber, won a technical knockout in the first round, ja c k Balham defeated “ Chuck” Owens, Bob Jenkins defeated Philip Ben in a hair raising bout?' Homer Settler lost to Jack Fruit. Conrad Mail had an easy time in.defeating Joe Healy. In the last bout “ jiggs” Hilburn lost to Merrel im an unpopular decision. All of the bouts were very fast and were enjoyed by the spectators. Girls Athletics Wilma Adams, Agnes Hall* Naomi Mesplie, Emma Pohipe, and Dorothy Sothern have reached the half way mark toward earning their sefipol letter. 500 ' points is required-fiefore an official “ C” is awarded. Hocky, baseball, and tenn is are the remaining sports in which points may be earned. Get busy, girls, and earn your letter! On Feb. 18th, in an exciting overtime game, the girls inter-council group bas ketball tournament ended with M isses^ Cruise and Miney’s groups winning th ^ p tournament. Both teams in the finals fought hard and victory wasn’t decided until the final moment of play. Mem bers of the winning teàm are Agnes Hall, captain, Wilma Adams, Mary Murphy? Arlene Bingham, Alice Menard. Continued from page 1 ? ' all the students who considered the after noon a great success. The celebration was concluded by en joying a dance in the evening. Various prizes were given to the students at this social. Some of these were: Prizes to tfie plumpest couple, was awarded to Misses Touida Osbourne and Venus Ingawanup. The oldest students received a prize and many other prizes were given to* various students. All this fun marked the close of one of the happiest birthdays celebrat ed on the Chemawa Campus.
