Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-12-28

BrafflebOrO Local
ATHLETICS WIN AT LAST
GAME TAKEN FROM THE ALL
C0LLEGIANS.
Athletics Overcome Lead Of 10 Points
Incidents Humorous and Exciting.
Final Score Athletics 81, All Cole.
oiaue 10

gians IS.
At last the hoodoo is broken. The
Athletics defeated the l.Collegians
who intimate that their home port Is
Easthampton, Mass, ON the home floor
Christmas night by the conclusive score
OF ~ to Is. The contest was hummer
Every one of the Athletics did his best
and his best WASH I bad by any means
In team work the local boys excelled
the visitors but were far behind on
shooting during the first of the game.
The Athletics displayed the best team
work of the season and ut the present
rate will round into good shape. Ellis
was down from st, Johnsbury and show
ed that he has lost none of his old time
form. He was pitted against Crowell
and at first looked something like II
blown up smoke ring. In the second
half he began to get used to the floor
and not only held his man down but
dropped in two nice shots Stafford
seemed to be the only man awake at
the start and did well all through both
in floor work and shooting. Long play
ed his best game of the year and shone
in general floor work. Riley was in the
thick of all the team work and made
some difficult shots. Davey was some
what overshadowed by Dingle and had
but few chances to shoot but in passing
he was all there and his back-handed
passes often made the big center look
to see what had become of the ball.
Crowell played a star game on the ALI
Collegians. Mckay and Keough play
ed well.
The All-Collegians were as gentle
manly a bunch of players as anyone
could care to see. Once "Socks ~ Da-
vey got slightly warm on that part of
his anatomy which is supposed to be
covered by the back collar button of
his shirt and started in to settle the
matter with some one who had flat
tened his probOscis-" Socks is lit
tie bit touchy about his nose, perhaps
because he has been touched there 50
often. Dingle grabbed him and held
him away a minute to cool his temper
when Referee Howe called foul on
Dingle for holding. Dingle saw the
Joke, as did everyone but Howe, and
took the penalty smilingly.
All things came to the Collegians in
the first half. Before the Athletics
had fairly settled their Christmas din
ners Scorer Riley was sweating with
the labor of chalking up the points
for the Collegians. The crowd had
seasick feeling when the board showed
the score to be IA to in favor of the
visitors. Then the Athletics began to
come out of their sleep and worked
the score up. to II to 10 at the close OF
the first half In the second half the
Collegians scored just four points and
the Athletics dropped in II. Ellis I'm
ished the game with an easy shot ana
everyone went away pleased. The sum-
mary
Athletics. All-Collegians.
ElI;s ! r. b. Crowell
Riley r f r. b. Henderson
Davey. G. c. Dingle
Jono h r. f. Mckay
Stafford, T. b. !. 1. heough
Score: Athletics 81, AlI-Collegians
IS; goals from floor, Ellis 3, Riley 3,
Stafford 4, Long 2, Davey, Crowell 1,
Mckay 3, Henderson, Dingle; points
on fouls, Athletics, |; referee, John
Howe of Brattleboro; timers, Flanders
of Easthampton and Crosby of Brattie'
boro: scorer. William Riley of Brattle-
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