The CHEMAWA AMERICAN
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.