The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-08

As result of the encounter at st.
Johnsbury Tuesday night, the Brattle,
boro Athletics stand as the real and
only basketball "champeens Of Yer
mont. There was an idea in the st.
Johnsbury camp that the Athletics in.
tended to let the Company ID team
win this game and give chance for
the fifth game at White River June.
ton. The tonic necessary to get that
bubble out of the system of the st,
Johnsbury fans was the personnel of
the Brattleboro bunch Tuesday even.
ing. As soon rs Doyle, Doran, Davey,
llaggcrty and McGuiggan appeared on
the floor the spirit of the st. Johns
bury company Immediately fled and the
obsequies of the hopes of ST. Johns
bury for the state championship are
but vague memories. A raven is
croaking over their grave and the
Company ID mascot has crossed the Ca
madam line or drowned himself in
Joe's Pond, leaving as his last will
and testament the single word
"stung."
To be sure the st. Johnsbury man
ager had made some effort to get
team together TO take the place of
the aggregation that he has been put
ting on the floor all the season but how
successful was this effort is told in
the words of the score, IS to 10. He
had corralled "Bucky" Lew, the ia.
nous colored player, and Mailman of
the Washington Guards of Fitchburg
Mass. His scheme was no 60. The us
ual Hanoverian stars, who have been
a tower of strength in the past few
years for st. Johnsbury, were absent
on a southern trip with the Dartmouth
team. Ellis, of the last years Brattle.
boro team, was with st. Johnsbury but
his star has faded. He is not the old
time "Rusty" who formerly played
with the Athletics.
The Athletic array left this town
for the st. Johnsbury territory on the
lilo train Tuesday morning and ar
rived at their destination late in the
afternoon. When the squad took the
floor every st. Johnsbury fan wore
look like a man in a dentist chair
when he is about to have all his molars
extracted without gas. One of the un-
sophisticated sons of the "lily white -
town had shown his faith in the home
team by putting up little of the good
American coin on the result and he felt
like man who has been shaking hands
with the cowcatcher of fast train.
When the game began there was
nothing to it but the Athletics. Hag'
gerty scored almost as soon as the
game had got fairly under way and the
good work was kept up until the end.
st. Johnsbury occasionally had small
brace but never a chance of winning.
Doyle stepped in an out of the bunch
and shot at will. Doran held Ellis in
one hand and shot with the other.
Haggerty did some fast bits of work
and when he unavoidably collided with
Beck, causing the latter to take the
count. Referee Gum insisted in excus-
ing Haggerty for the rest of the SEES
sion, the only thing that marred the
contest. When the game was at last
over the board showed the score 80 to
10 in favor of the visitors.
Referee Gum did square and honest
work. To be sure he called nine fouls
on the Athletics and only one on the
home team but that was all right. lie
seemed to be a bit off when he called
a foul on Haggerty and put the latter
out of the game and there are no rules
in the book to back him up, but OF
course a referee cannot carry every
thing in his head and the few slight
lapses that Gum suffered were per
fectly excusable. The summary
Athletics. Company d.