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Chemawa American
B oys U p s e t G lads
Slim (L e e ) Adolph w a its p a tie n tly for a pitch in the North Marion game.
Chem awa's baseball season ended suddenly when the team was forced to for
f e it the rest of its games due to a lack of players. (Photo by Fred Sweowat)
Season Ends Suddenly
Chemawa’s first varsity baseball
season in many years came to a
sudden end April 25 when the Braves
had to forfeit the rest of their games.
The reasons behind the folding of
team were not enough boys to field
a complete squad, a lack of a field
for home games and a general lack of
interest by students. The decision
to cut the season short was made by
Coach Harry Lippy, Athletic Director
Kugie Louis and the administrations
at Chemawa and the other schools in
the Capital Conference.
Mr. Louis said that this was not
the end of baseball at Chemawa, but
he added that the program will have
to be begun again from scratch. The
first goal, he said, would be a new
field for home games and adequate
practice. This would be followed by
a jayvee program to give experience
to younger players so that they would
not face other varsities with no ex
perience behind them.
He added that many of the students
have no idea of what baseball is
about, and this was one reason for
the lack of support.
The team did play six games before
their season ended, losing them all
by wide margins.
G/77 Spikers W in and Lose
The girls track team defeated
Stayton in a dual meet at Chemawa,
69-39, in the first meet of the year
for both schools.
Chemawa girls placing first were
Susie Marchand in the 100-meter
hurdles (19.5) and the high jump
(4’ 2” ), Bonnie James, 440 (1:15.9),
Carol Andrews, mile (6:41.9), Ber
tha Yeltatzie, javelin (101* 5”),
Evelyn Stotts, discus (75* 1” ), Mary
Solomon, shot (31* 816” ) and Lynn
Miller, long jump (12* 11V6” ).
The 880 relay team of Becki
Noyes, Lynn Miller, Susie Marchand
and Bonnie James , won their event
in 2:20.6.
Chemawa lost its 2nd meet against
North Marion 69—40. Carol Andrews
took a double win in the 880 yard run
and in the mile. ’ Others taking first
were Bertha Yeltatzie in javelin and
Mary Solomon in shotput
Those taking second were Susie
Marchand, Barbara Westcoast, Bonnie
James, Lynn Miller, and Evelyn
Stotts.
The Chemawa boys upset defend
ing district champion Gladstone in
their fitst dual meet of the Reason.
Chemawa dominated the running
events and won ten out of sixteen
firsts. Pat James was a double win
ner in the 100 and 200.
Chemawa lost a squeaker to Wood
burn, 70—66, on April 13. The Braves
took all the running events except
the 440 and the high hurdles. Pat
James took both sprints again and
Delbert Okboak added a 4:48.7 mile.
Mike George’s time in the two-miles
was a fast 10:32.2.
Lloyd Vincent, Jacob Merculief,
Francis Deveraux, Stanley Johnson,
Lloyd Davis, Foster Simmonds, Lind
sey Howtopat and Leland Wilson also
contributed to Chesmawa wins.
The Braves finished second in a
three-way meet at Regis on April 24,
defeating the Rams but finishing
behind Cascade.
Jacob Merculief
lowered his
880 time to 2:02.8,
tops in the district and one of the
best AA marks in the state. Coach
Kugie Louis predicts that Jacob will
break two minutes before the season
is over. His 440 time of 54.0 is also
a district best.
There are 30 boys out for track,
including only five senior lettermen.
Promising newcomers, according to
Coach Louis, include Foster Sim
monds, George Adams and Jimbo
Abrahamson.
A r t R uns fo r Fun
Chemawa’s best distance runner
won’t score any points for the Braves
this spring.
Arthur Ambrose, a senior from
Hughes, Alaska, runs the mile around
4:30 and is close to ten minutes flat
in the two-mile. But Arthur is also
19 years old—too old by one-and-a-
half months to compete under Oregon
high school rules.
Ambrose works out with the team,
though, and runs in their meets as a
non-counting “ at large”
entrant.
“ Arthur is a quality runner just now
coming into his own,” says Coach
Kugie Louis. Last fall he led Che
mawa to the 1972 AA Cross-country
Championship.
This won’t be Arthur’s last season
though. Next year he will run cross
country and track for Eastern Wash
ington State College. One of his
teammates there will be Dimitri
Johnson, who graduated from Chem
awa in 1971 and is a two-year letter^
man for EWSC.