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About Weekly Chemawa American. (Chemawa, Or.) 189?-198? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 29, 1909)
4 THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN Cbe gbemawa Emerican Published WeeKly at the United States Indian Training School. subscription Price, 25 Cents a Year. Clubs of Five or Over 20 Cents Entered a the Chemawa, Oregon, Postoffice as second-class mail matter. PRINTING STAFF Joseph Dillstrom, Benjamin Wilcox, Henry Darnell, John Service, James Evans, Calvin Darnell, Louis Hudson,- Frazier Meoum, Robert Service. Htbletic Misses Hattie and Nora Mann and Miss Ella Brewer belong to the Capitol Business College basketball team. They lost to Monmouth last week by a 21 to 14 score. The wrestlers' club held a meeting Wednesday evening for the purpose of electing the officers and making arrange ments for practice. Henry Dillstrom was elected president; Levi Sortor, Vice President; Albert Garry, Secretary; Dennis Harnden, Treasurer. Joe Dill strom will keep order and act as door keeper. The club consists of thirty-two "wiry" men and they expect to learn a great deal about the ''flopping" game from the instruction of Dennis Harnden. The new mat is finished and ready for use. The club wish to thank the tailors and harness makers and all who took a hand in the making of the mat. It is as good as the high-priced mats used by the large athletic clubs. WOODBURN 18 CHEMAWA 16. The first basketball game by the boys' teams of Chemawa was played with Woodburn on Tuesday evening in our gymnasium, and the boys went down to defeat 18 to 16. The game was a mistake; it was a trial game, and the visitors won as above. The first half ended 11 to 6. The school being represented by Wilson, ouvigner, Powers. Dillstrom, Smoker, Lewis and Farrow. In the second half the visitors made seven points while we made ten points. The school being represented by Wilson, Clark, Sortor, Wiggins and Darnell. All of our points were made by field goals. Wilson making two, Powers two, Clark three and Darnell one. The visitors made six field goals; four by Fisher, one by Helm kin, and one by Bonney, to which number they added six points from fouls, out of 14 fouls awarded them by the officials. Chema aw had three fouls awarded, but failed to make good on any of the three tries. Full twenty-minute halves were played. The game demonstrates that it doesn't pay to "Swop horses in the middle of a race." CHALLENGE. The firt and second basketball teams of the uBig Z" Athletic Club do hereby challenge the first and second basketball teams of the "Amateur" Athletic Club to a double-header game to he played in the new gymnasium,- date to be settled by captains. Michel Wilson, Captain. CHALLENGE ACCEPTED. We, the plumbers, accept the farmers'- challenge to a basketball game. Time and place of game to be settled by the captains of the teams. Fred Lewis, Capt.