The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-03-12
A Rough Game This.
With the Score Is to Ia in Their
Favor Pittston Leaves
the Floor.
Normal Awarded Game.

a
roughest game of basket ball ever
played in the Normal gymnazium
took place Saturday night. Pitts
ton was the opposing team with
big, good natured John McGuffy
as the leading spirit. Right here
we might say that McGuffy made
good during the contest, scoring II
of the visitors IS points. He was
easily the best man on the Pittston
team and without him the game
would have been a cinch for Normal.
In the very beginning Pittston
registered a kick. They proposed
to start play in the centre of the
floor in accordance with the rules.
Normal had always started play
from the side line because of the
obstruction in the shape of the hori
zontal bar. For this game, how
ever, the bar had been removed,
and probably should have been left
down as considerable time was
taken in putting it up and taking
it down again, Pittston positively re-
fusing to start until it was remoed.
Play finally started and for
twenty minutes it was fast and
furious. First one side would score
a basket then the other. The half
ended with Pittston having a shade
the better of the argument, the
score standing 1913
In the second half the excitement
knew no bounds. Marcy, who,
owing to sickness was unable to
play the first half replaced Mac
Avoy at Celtre, and quickly dis
tinguished himself by throwing a
basket, which tied the score. The
applause atthis time was deafening.
The visitors then forged ahead, but
their lead was brief, and again the
score was a tie at II to II.
Mr., Jones, the Pittston umpire,
who by his unfairness at various
stages OF the game had been hissed
by the audience. now realized that
if he was to win tie game for his
side it must be done quickly, so he
called foul on Machado at a mo-
ment when there was absolutely no
excuse for ii. The audience again
broke into Kisses and jeers, and
cries of put him out" "ro,ten, "
filed the air. But he would not
withdraw the decision. McGuffie
threw the basket and instantly
Martin, the Pittston time keeper,
blew the whistle signaling that
time was up and the visiting team
lett the floor. Prof. Cope, who
was acliug as time keeper Tor Nor
NAL, hurried to the centre of the
floor and stated that there was yet
two minutes to play. He kept
time with stop watch and had
been very careful to take out all the
time that the teams were not ii
play. Mr.. Martin, on the other
hand, used all ordinary watch and
according to those who sat near
him and were in position to know
; he paid little or no attention to i
in the last half.
The move was evidently a pre-
arranged one, as the visitors, to
gether with their time keeper, hur
ried off the floor. They would no
come back and the game wa
awarded to Normal 20.
!. TO mind unprejudiced, Norma
, played the better game. They re
:. sorted to none of that eXtrem
roughness which characterized tn
:, worl, of the visitors. and their team
,, work was all that could be desired
A. feature of the game was baske
:. thrown by Machado from a Difficult
angle.
In main strength alone did tn
visitors excel.
The umpire robbed us" is al
: old story, but there is certainl
. merit in the claim i'll this instance
It is we'll for Mr.. Jones that ne wa
umpiring in Bloomsbury. Had Il
been III Ashland, Mt. Carmel c
other towns thereabouts he woul
n have been mobbed, as he certainl
e deserved. The line up follows;
II PITTSTON Position NORMA
{ Anthony -. forward. :. Machad
;, McGuffie -. forward. Sor GorGora ra
e na oortre ! MacAvo
e Doose $780, Marcy
d Sheet guard ...... Rilan
s, Blackburn -. guard. ...... Rulo
:. Goals from held-Machado,
Marcy, 2; MacAvoy, Riland M,
Cutie, 4; Dodge, Anthony. Goa
,r from fous-McGuffie, g. Refere
= Jones Pittston. Umpire Eye
rs Bloomsbury, Timers-Cope, No
NAL; Martin, Pittston.