The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-03-06
GRAND FINISH
BY SPAULDING
Won Fine Victory Over
Peoples Academy
LAST YEARS CHAMPIONS
Visiting Basket Ball Players Were Much
Heavier Than the High Schol Lads,
But the Latter Were Plucky
to the End. Vi

The Spaulding high school basket ball
team covered itself with glory last even
ing and made skyroclet close Of its
season BY defeating the Peoples acad-
emy team Of Morrisville by score Of
20 to IS, in one Of the hest games seen
in the Church street gymnasium this
winter The great work at basket
throwing Of ATerill and Grigg in the
last few minutes Of the game tied the
score and with minute more to play
Ayerill made good, two throws from
fouls, and the game was won
There was large crowd Of Spaulding
aud Goddard students present and when
the final whistle blew they went wild
With joy. Hats flew and ycls continued
for twenty minutes and the plucky high
school players were fairly swept oil the
floor into their dressing room by the
students The peoples team had met
but one defeat, that administered by
Goddard last week. in two years, and
its defeat last evening was great sur
prise
When tho game first started, Peoples
had two Of its substitute men on the
floor, but before two minutes Of play
had passed. during which t;iigg and Ay-
Grill had each shot basket fpm the
floor Peoples heavyweights appeared
and took their places on the floor The
visitors were taller and outweighed
Spanlding 25 pounds 70 a man.
Peoples threw only one basket from
the floor In the first half but Tinker
threw seven fouls 80 that he half ended
. to 5 in their favor. Ayerill having
thrown one foul i'll addition to his and
Grigg's basket from the floor
Directly after the last half opened,
Averill threw a foul and this was fol
lowed hy basket each from the floor
by Weafer aud r. Stafford Ayerill soon
threw another foul. but another basket
from the floor by Raymond OF People
made fhe score Is to and spaulding
eIHnees III winning looked small
AvQfiII then got back into his usual
form at locating the basket and threw
three fouls IN short order K. Stafford
got in d basket from the floor for the
visitors. bit Grigg offset that soon with
4 pretty basket from the iloor and after
Tinker bad made good a shot from the
foul line for Peoples the spaulding
b0ys seemed to spurt out Of their shoes
and with only two minutes 20 play made
4 sensational dash for the victory, seor
ing eight points and holding their heay
Ter opponents to no score.
AyeriIl tossed in a basket from the
loor and Grigg quickly followed with
another one. on tile toss-up III the cen
.er. HaIvosa Knocked the bali toward
Snaulding's basket and 6irigg soon got
.he ball. and, while guarding OIL his op
penent with his left hand, threw the
palI over his head and straight through |
.he basket, tieing the score Is to Is.
PEOPLES then made things lively in
.he few seconds left to play. but Two
iolus were soon made BY them and I
averiH tossed the bali through the hoop I
iwice, throwing the last one just as The I
inal whistle blew. The lineup:
spaulding High. Peoples Academy. I
Maiden, f.s4...5., &, Neater
srigg. / f,.....t.,.s.. s, Raymond f
5alyosa, e........-.+s.. e, Tinker
lyerili. II a............l t, X, Stafford
dcAulay, g ..,r !, " stafford
The summary: baskets from the floor,
srigg 4. Averill ?, r. Stafford ?. Neater
/. RAYMOND ?; baskets from fouls, Az
aili s. Tinker S; referee. Eton; umpire,
Mercer: timers, Ayerili and Thomasi
ime. 29.minute halves
between the halves of the first game
he Spaulding seconds and the Goddard
econds played one period, but the last
,eriod was called Of as nobody cared to
Io ANYTHING but celebrate the former vie
ory. which they did TO a turn The
core for the period xas l5 TO 5 ml
eror Of The Goddard team.
The seminary's first team will 20
aainst the Peoples team in the same
AN tonight in the state preparatory
chool championship. Goddard won from
he academy boys at Morrisyille a short
inc ago and on this game tonight
inqes the premiership IN school basket
All. With the acquaintance with the
oor gained last night, the visitors will /
le more at home. and a close match IS
ooke6 for, in spite Of Peoples defeat
y Spanlding. Goddard is still I'M
eaten