St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-02-03

game and Ed will profit considerably by
| learning the league rules which are very
strict regarding rough work.
The Yonkers Evening News contains
the real newsy news that the St. Johns
bury team are 10 leave their happy home
in New Hampshire long enough to pay
a visit to some of the fastest teams
around the metropolis.
There's difference between inter-col-
legiate and professional basket ball, but
it was rather difficult for the average
layman to decide where one left of and
the other began in the last period OF the
St. J. A.-Goddard game.
Webster, Mass, is the next attraction.
They have been signed for three games,
the first to be played here Friday night.
Saturday and Monday they play out OF
town. The Webster team has net been
defeated this year.
Lauter A. c. are also some shucks in
the base ball world. Their team last
summer was winner and the lineup
includes all the members of the basket
ball team. Skeets was the initial sacker,
his brother Bill was in the center garden,
Yellow, Petrick and Biggane alternated
behind the bat and Muller and Callahan
held down the second and third bags.
After reading all the unkind things in
some of the state papers about the locals
during the past week it is rather refresh
ing to note that the Boston Globe thinks
well of Company D, and places them a
head Of their own townsmen in the eligi
bic list of claimants to the New England
championship.
Speaking of base ball reminds US that
it might not be SO difficult to form a
team from the material on hand at the
close of the basket ball season. A lineup
which has been suggested and looks very
good from this distance includes Wright,
Lacasse, Walden, Brennan, Kruger
who all have records, and it ought not
to be very hard to fill out with local
men and put up a team that would cause
a rush of blood to the heads of some of
the natives of the surrounding towns.
The McKeesport team of the Central
league which is composed of O'Donnell,
Doyle, Boggio, Swenson, Ed Wachter,
Getzinger, Sears and Henschel, will start
on their spring trip March 16. The
management expect to make several
dates with this strong team which will
be announced later. The Greensburg
team of the same league have promised
to visit St. Johnsbury at the close of the
league season. These teams will make
our boys extend themselves as they never
have before and our old friends
Henschel, Doyle and Swenson will receive
a hearty welcome from the fans.
After two years of professional basket
ball, in which time most of the players
of note have appeared here, we do not
hesitate moment in handing the palm
to Lauter A, {. for the gamiest bunch of
athletes who have yet visited this town.
After their showing in the five games |
last week with Company D, during
which time the five men were called upon
to play nine of the best men in New |
England, we are satisfied that there is |
rot the slightest tinge of yellow in their |
makeup and that they are game to the
core.
Considerable talk has been heard of |
late about a proposed interstate basket
ball league for next year to include SIX |
or eight towns in Vermont and New
Hampshire Montpelier, Brattleboro,
Springfield, ST. Johnsbury, Littleton,
Keene and Portsmouth would be good |
fields, and we see no reason why the
scheme could not be carried out. The
game has been well patronized in these
towns and with the assurance of good
teams under good business management
such league ought to be success.
Come on Brattleboro.
We respectfully submit the following
to the founder OF the famous Annanias
Club for consideration: There is some
likelihood that Brattleboro and St.
Johnsbury will get together again this
season after ALL The St. Johnsbury
haye cut loose from Gray, who
the team last season and a
portion of this, and toby" Matthews
is now in charge of the Company D
bunch. Now that Gray has been elimi-
mated there ought to be no great diff
Guilty in Bratteboro and St. Johnsbury
coming to terms.-- Brattleboro Reformer.