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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (March 26, 1943)
Summary of Sport Activities Indians drop Angels The Red and White brought to a close its 42-43 basketball season with three victories in the district 11 play-off at Mt. Angel college gym. The Redskins dropped Mt. Angel high school 36-28 to take the consolation prize, after losing a hair raiser to Wood burn in the opening round 26 to 27. With Williams and Whitford hitting the hoop often, the Indians jumped into an early lead and maintained it throughout. Playing their last game for Chemawa and showing lots of drive were “Jerky” Whitford, high scoring center; “Bob” Edden and “Beanie” Adolph, forwards. Helping these boys in their last victory were Don Williams and Matthew Stops, guards; George Walters, James La Rance, Eu gene Hoffer, forwards; Merle Williams, center. Papooses Wallop Woodburn Victory no. 2 was hung up by the fast traveling (Hotshots) at the Woodburn Training School March 25th, displaying some fine team work and sharpshooting. In the second half the Indians pulled away from their opponents after leading by one point at the half way mark 15-16. Final score was Chemawa 47-Woodburn 25. Gerald Hoffer lead the scoring onslaught with 15 points; ably assisted by La Rance with 6; Stops, 8; Williams, 4; Walks, 2; and Davis with 7 points. Grade School Downs West Salem By chalking up their second win over the West Salem Graders our own Grade School team added a final touch to our hoop season. The half-time score was 10-15 in our favor, but in the third quar ter the "papooses” pulled away and at the end of the game were leading 35-25. Cheer as center and Laurence Orcutt, forward, lead the scorers with 9 points apiece. Other mem bers of the squad and points made: Forwards, Geo. Foster, 2; Derwin Dumont, 4; Cleve Racehorse, 2; Center, Hobucket, 0; Guards, Victor Jackson, 7; Earl Davis, 2; Burke, "Bobby” Kutch, and "Curly” Wilson were other members of our squad. Intra-Mural Sports The carpenters defeated the painters in a basket ball game last Friday afternoon in the Chemawa gym. Lefty Wilder was the big scorer for the paint ers. But the Carpenters were too hot to be overcome. Paced by “Jerky” Whitford’s 24 points, the Wood chucks went on a scoring rampage and buried Wil ders crew under a 48 to 27 count. The carpenters hit the hoop from all over the floor to thoroughly outclass the favored painters. The carpenter boys are undefeated, holding three victories over the painters and one over the bakers. The carpenters have, beyond a doubt, the strongest team on the campus. The painters lineups: forwards, Wilder and R. Jackson; guards, Adolph and Dumont; center, M. Williams. And for the carpenters: forwards, Champine and C. Picard; guards, E. Whitford and Murphey; center, “Jerky” Whitford. Four of these boys are from Browning, Montana. Picard is the only exception. The painters, bakers, and carpenters have the only teams on the campus strong enough to compete with each other. The Woodchucks have won all their games by large scores. The highly praised bakers lost a close basketball game last Sunday afternoon to a classy carpenter team by a score of 51 to 40. The sharpshooting carpenter boys scored from all over the floor. They didn’t even try to work the ball through for lay-in shots but threw the ball through the hoop from the middle of the court with uncanny accuracy. If the ball missed the hoop it was always knocked back through the hoop for two points. Don Williams paced the bakers with 14 points in their futile at tempt to over-come the wocdchucks. “Jerky” Whit ford took high scoring honors for the game with a total of 26 points. The bakers displayed a fancy passing attack on offense but proved to be very weak on defense. The carpenters played smoothly and on certain occasions put on passing exhibitions of their own. The bakers are composed of former var sity stars and should have won easily, since two of the carpenters don’t play basketball during the reg ular season. The other two carpenters are both “B” team subs. Only H. Whitford has played regularly this season. But they put on a show that even the Chemawa varsity couldn’t compare with. The bakers line-up: Forwards, Adolph and Saluskin; Guards, Williams and Honena; Center, Edden. The carpen ters line-up: Forwards, C. Picard and W. Champine; Guards, E. Whitford and Murphy; Center, Harvey Whitford. Coach Wilder has some very promising talent in some of these carpenters for his varsity team next year. Miss Ruth E. Morse, high school teacher, was a patient in the'hospital for about a week with throat infection.
