Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1912-02-29
Hot Times In Basketball,

That fiery, untamed aggregation ofbas-
ketball players from Martinsburg came
down on Shepherdstown last Friday
! night like roaring lio..s-iust going to eat
us alive and put all Shepherd College in
mourning. But they didn't do it. They
couldn't. The historic fact is that We
trimmed them by the comfortable score
of IS to g. We will give the visitors
credit for some mighty good playing,
though-the best team we have gone up
against this season, excepting only Fair
mont. But they couldn't shoot the goals
couldn't even get the ball in on fouls
and they lost the game fairly. Our boys
played brilliantly, always on the spot,
and shot the goals unusually well. A
very large crowd of spectators was pres
ent, including considerable number from
Mauinsburg, and the roofing was some
thing to be remembered. The playing
was rough at times, but nobody was hurt
much except Alvey, of the college team,
who had his ankle twisted and has been
bit lame since. Shepherdstown was so
reioiced at putting the Dutch hex on Mar
tinsburg that the boys, carried our players
around the gymnasium on shoulder top.
II was hard to tell whether the Martins
burg rooters were saddest or maddest
over their defeat.
The real thing in the way OF basketball,
however, was Thursday afternoon, when
the girls of Powhatan College, Charles
Town, played game with the Shepherd
College girls. We don't like to say that
any of the young ladies lost their tempers,
but they eft" with tooth and toenail and
hairpinS just flew. II was the first game
that the home girls had played in public,
and they were unable to withstand the
onslaughts OF their determined opponents.
who fought to win. Besides the scrap
ping between the girls, the umpire and
referee had exciting divergences of opin-
ion. Powhatan won by score OF II TO
6, and their rooters rejoiced uproariously.
The Chambersburg High School team
came over to have game with us Sat-
urday night. The visitors were a fine
bunch OF young fellows, and they played
quick, snappy ball ard took every chance.
But our boys were too clever for them
and guarded them so watchfully they
couldn't get the ball into the basket. The
score was 30 to 7 in favor of Shepherd
College.
Yesterday our team journeyed to Front
Royal, where we took game from the
Randolph-Macon quint by score IF Is
to l3. Our boys didn't work very hard,
as they are saving themselves for Mar
tinSburg.
The Shepherd College team goes to
Martinsburg Friday night to play re-
turn game with the Y. M. c. A. boys.
To read the gaseous Martinsburg Jour-
nal on the basketball subject is TO laugh.
For several weeks past it has been having
Mysteries because Shepherd College for
perfectly good reasons could not arrange
a game of basketball with the Martins
burg Y. M. c. A team. A ruling Of the
faculty of the college permits our team
to play only with teams from other
schools, and the Journal chose TO assume
that our team was afraid to meet the boys.
1t called US crabs and other hard names,
and made intimations that made our
boys determine to trim the MartinSburgerS
when they got the chance. The oDpor
tunlty came last Friday night, ard we
whipped them prop rly. Does the Jour
nal take its medicine like man? Oh,
not baWls like spanked child. 1t
blames Martinsburgs defeat on a long
floor; narrow room; the spectators
the umpire; the steam pipes overhead;
the position OF the baSketS-every reason
but the right one, namely, that the vlsi-
tors were outplayed. The Fairmont team
had been here a few days before and
they found no trouble with our floor and
the impedimentS the World talks about
us. They defeated us ec2uSe they had
better team-and MartinSburg could
have done the same thing if its quint had
been better. Every team that has played
our boys this year has been defeated,
with the single exception OF Fairmont,
and none found fault with the floor or the
arrangements or the umpiring 1t is only
fair to the Martinsburg team to say that
they repudiate the Worlds hot air.