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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.