Weekly Chemawa American., May 20, 1910, Page 7, Image 7

THE C HEM AW A AMERICAN
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THE REL'AY RACE.
(Clippings From the Oregonian.)
Y. M. C. A. READY FOR INDIANS
With 14 out of 15 runners finishing
within two minutes of each other, the
try-out held by the Portland Y. M. C. A.
to pick the team which competes against
the Chemawa Indian school in the an
nual Portland Salem relay race on May
og was held yesterday over a four-mile
course through the city streets.
The runners left sixth and Yamhill
streets about 6:30 o'clock and the first
man in the race finished 24 minutes and
36 seconds. All of the runners were
comparatively fresh. The local relay
team expects to give the Indians a hard
race this year. Heretofore the Indians
have won each race. Under the leader
ship of Fred Newell the Y. M. C. A.
hoys have been training for nearly two
months.
The order in which the runners finish
ed follows: 1, McDonald; 2, Schwabauer;
3, Vanderlip; 4, Brandaller; 5, Perkins;
G, Laasch; 7, Messeager; 8, Kurtz; 9,
Paulson; 10, Newell (Captain); 11, Peter
son; 12, Jones; 13, Gill; 14, Solum.
CHEMAWA INDIANS SPEEDY.
The Chemawa Indian school is devel
oping some fast runners for the Salem
Portland annual relay race, which will
he run with the Portland Y M. C A. on
May 28. Eight of last year's team are
out for honors, while many new speedy
Imlims have entered the contest. So
close has become the competition that
the Indians, who ran last year; are on
their mettle and will have to improve in
order to secure places on this year's team.
A try-out is held every Monday even
ing, the first 18 to cross the finish line
being placed at the training table. , The
final try-out will be held on Saturday,
May 21, when the team to represent the
school will be selected. Thus far in the
preliminary try-outs, there has been less
than a minute in difference in the time'
between the first and the 18th man and
only a few seconds between the sixth
and the 15th man to finish.
Of tne old runners, Haight, Smoker,
Clark. Brown, Frank Dau, Louie Dan,
Souvigner and John have been in the
tryouts. while Bearchild, Kitus Jim,
Olney, James Finley and Ed. Finley are
most promising of the new runners.
The Indians realize the Y. M. C. A.
runners are putting forth au extra ef
fort to win and thus wipe out the three
previous defeats. With the dogged de
termination of their race the Indians
are training this year as never before
and the prospects now are that a new
Salem-Portland record will be set this
year.
CHEMaWA VS WILLAMETTE.
Last Friday afternoon our boys admin
istered a second defeat to Willamette Uni
versity on their grounds at Salem by a
score of 5 to 4. Haight was in the box,
for Chemawa and blanked Willamette
for the first seven innings while we tal
lied three runs. In the seventh Haight
was a little wild and walked twomen, but
he did not lose his head and pulled him
self out of the hole. In the eight Graham
went in, was wild and the vVillamettes
tallied four runs. In the ninth by hit
ting the ball we tallied a run, tying the
score. Teabo went in in the ninth and
pitched to the end of the game which
came in the tenth inning when with one
man out another Chemawan crossed the
home plate. Umpire, Hamilton of Salem.
This afternoon we play Willamette for
the third time.