THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
THE DALLES GAME.
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The score was 12 to 0 in favor of The
Dalles. That was the result of the last
Millie of our first team, this season, on
January 1, and the boys say that they
ran up against the. roughest proposition
that some of them ever experienced.
Four members of the team were gentle
men and football players. The rest
were sluggers and they were on the
team evidently for their slugging'ability.
The team out-weighed our men twenty
pounds to the man. The boys took their
defeat in good order; came home to find
the correspondent of one of the Port
land papers accusing them of roughness.
True, the boys did fight back, so" would
anyone protest if they were pounded
and officials were blind. The correspon
dent in question claims to be an ex
coach of the Phoenix school. To dem-.
onstrate the fairness of his article his re
port says that The Dalles team out
weighed our men possibly five pounds.
The Chemawa student body dies not
charge this defeat up against the team,
knowing that the boys were not respon
sible for the defeat.
THE ALBINA GAME.
The Albina Athletic Club of Portland,
fretting under; defeat administered to
them on Christmas Day, asked for a
second game to be played on New Year's
Day. All arrangements were made, the
game advertised, but only four members
of the team showed up at Chemawa,
while the manager wired he would be
nlong on the next train with the balance
of the bunch vho were on the train, but
had gotten off at Portland owing to some
disagreement between the members of
the team. We are still waiting to hear
from the manager. Our boys say that
they got cold feet, and ready to repeat
the Christmas dose for them,
QUARTERLY EXAMINATIONS.
A visit through different schoc
rooms this week found everybody engag
ed in their quarterly examinations. Th
questions and problems written on th
blackboards were viewed with much dis
coui agement and seemed very difficult to
some, while to others they wTere easy t(
master and made the work a pleasure
for them. The word "failure" is written
on the faces of many and success is plain
ly marked on others.
Every study comes easy to those who
have worked faithfully in the past three
months and it takes them only a short
time to handjn the papers. To those
who have missed school, made mistakes,
and failed to study, the test .is a- hard
one to face, and their papers show more
guess work than real knowledge of their
studies. - ,
It is natural for us to review the past
three months' of - school and to resolve
that we will try to avoid certain mis
takes which we can see as we look back
since the beginning of school. Many of
us are making excuses, blaming our
teachers, and finding faults in many
ways. We should neither blame our in
structors, nor ourselves. On -tlie con
trary we should calmly say to ourselves:
ul have made these mistakes, it is $11
done, I cannot go back and undo them,
but I can go forward to the next exam
ination wiser for my mistakes and better
able to avoid them in the future."
The printers wish to thank the carpen
ters and painters who took part in mak
ing the new battery for them. It is a
neat piece of work and is just what Was
wanted.
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