The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1908-02-21
DEFEAT WAS OURS
IN FIRST GAME
st. Johnsbury Team Worked Together
Better and Captured First Of State
Series by Margin Of / Point
Fouls We're Responsible.
Who II be stungi

Who II be stungi
The question on the bills was an
swered as far as the first game in the
state basketball series was concerned
when st. Johnsbury's famous quintet
won from Brattleboro's hired stars in
Festival hall Tuesday evening by a
score of % to %. IL was certainly
tough cheese as far as the local fans
were concerned. The number of points
each team scored on goals from the
floor was the same-16, but in the pc
nalizing process that accompanied the
play ST. .Johnsbury was given points
TO Brattleboro s six and that is what
spelled defeat for us. And yet in fair
ness il must be said that ST. Johnsbury
deserved the victory as far as its floor
work was concerned. The visitors as
a rule passed better than their oppOn-
ents and scored many more shots.
There were times when the Brattleboro
pennant bearers displayed brilliant
bits of team work but for the most
part they seemed unable to get their
team work going. This was particular
~ true in the second period.
The game was witnessed by the larg
est crowd that ever attended basket
ball game in Brattleboro. The west
and north side of Festival hall had
been equipped with bleachers which
were filled to Overlooking while the
gallery and the remaining portions of
the hall were crowded to their capac-
ity. People who had not secured re.
served seats were in line as early as Z
O clock and long before $50 every
available foot of space was occupied.
AS far as interest was concerned the
game was not up to expectations. Ref
cree Tom Riley Of Marlboro, Mass, was
largely to blame for this. His eyes
were peeled SO closely for technical
fouls that the teams seldom had an op-
portunity to get going before they
were stopped by the whistle. Another
thing that annoyed the crowd was the
system of scoring. 1t was agreed that
three fouls should constitute point,
but as the points won in this way were
not put up until the close of each Pc
Rod few people were able to follow the
score intelligently. There was also
some misunderstanding in regard to
rules, particularly on the dribbling
question.
Brattleboro started the game with
Ed. Wachter at center, Hardman and
Mueller forwards and Doran and Hag
gerty guards. Vaughan Of East Boston
was up against Ed. Wachter, Fox play
ed Hartman, Henschel looked after
Mueller, Doyle was matched against
Doran and Toby Matthews against
Haggerty. Individually "Jack" Fox
did the best work of the bunch al
though Mueller showed himself to be
fully as clever as any Of the 10 men.
"Big Ed" was able to get the tap on
Vaughan every time but in other de-
partments of the game the pair were
on about equal terms. Hardman
didn t cover Fox closely enough nor
was the speedy little forward heavy
enough to stop the East Boston cy-
clone. Haggerty was not equal to Mat
thews in all-round work and lacked his
usual eye for the basket. In the case
of Doran and Doyle it was about
stand-off although the former seemed
to have trife the better of the argu-
ment. Toward the end Of the final pc