Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-14
RICHMOND COLLEGE WINS
BASKETBALL CONTEST
Stage Brilliant Contest on Floor of
Howitzers' Armory, and Defeat
William and Mary by o Points.
LuEBBERT AND DERTsHEy STAR
Spiders, by Their Victory. Still Have
Chance for the Championship Cup.
Next Local Game Will BE With
the Yellow Jackets.

In their first appearance In II cham
pic PIen,s hip, contest y, hons, the Slider
by by the close score Of s& 70, II. 1t was
mat tho local team WAS able to finish
o oh me top side The game was prob
The two t"as wsr. mere @e ins
Spiders gave them the yici"ry. In the
we're only three points separating the
IVY, nio teams. and II was only in tho last
more points to the HPldsrsE lead; s' '~'
bot une team. gmme o stnrted or evenly; With
cause OF the efficient work OF both sets
box for the Spiders ~ negotiating II
i," "Ms, spectaeuinr shot: he vas fol-
.nriety. shot By Captain Luebber, The
WilliamSburgers then started in their
scoring, and noon evcned UP matters,
50 tho race Vent on, Every V time the the
aisi %ers W would , sGHrs some some p9ins ths
ring up Jus, enough To keep within
; Strikin. distance or their opponents.
close OF tho first hpif. witch ended
ond session tho two teams scored cx-
a ,SoH, tho came number OF points. al
we're made By throws from FOULS, While
tnc spiders counted but one by this
For the williamsburgers, the work
OF Gayle and Bsr,schey was good. The
iorncr, who played centre. was able
to get the jump. almost every time by
reason Of hin height. and this fac.
gave his team an advantage every time
sid ,d.s PAL thn vas ,hrow" pp al centre Re,
scrinnmage ana taite the ball away
from The other fellows when it was
schey WAS all over the ;ioor. and
played his usual fast game. He was
because Of the Spiders excellent de-
ienso, Ichner at guard, played II
good game and slipped TWO goals in
me basket III the course OF the contest.
For III" Spiders, the work OF guards
ON anu Mitchell, especially the for.
entire play. Very rarely did either o" of
these goa! defenders allow any OF the
visitors to get la clean shot. Cap
tain Luebbcrt. though not UP to his
Yi"-uine form. played a brilliant game.
~. made several pretty scores, and his
passing and dribbii!s was hard TO inn
prove uppn 10 pulled the feature
play OF The game. ably assisted by Dick
WOOD. when, IN the inldHt OF Il hard
ss , long pass was, made to
MIN from the entire length Of the
ncor. Seeing that he was covered. he
managed To jump high and with one
hand defect The course OF the speeding
ball so that il shot right into Woods
hHhds VINO lost no time in throwing il
into the basket
The Spiders made but two OF their
scores by foul throws by Captain Luch-
bert out Of five tries. while the visitors
rolled up rve points In this way from
ten chances.
BY this victory, the Spiders have
kept themselves In the race for the
Championship cup. having an average
OF 81, IN spite OF their defeat by Ran
dolph- Macon. The next game viii be
with IiampdcE- Sidney and will DO
played Al the HowitZcrs Armory at n
date TO he announced later.
y large audience packed the How
tiers Auditorium last night. and the
rival rootcrs, exhibited great cnthus-
iasm throughout the game. The line
up:
u. &. Position w & NJ
i-uehbcrt. right forward Bcrtschcy
itaptain) ,Captain)
Wood. ..... left forward. -. Jones
logan: centre ........ Gayle
Mitchell right guard. ~ Zion
Cox left guard. .Zchner
Goals from field: Luebbert, 3: Wood
.; Mitchell, l. Cox. l; Bertsche /;
Gayle 2: Ichmer, 3. Goals from foul:
l.uebhert. :; Bcrtschey, .: Jones. 3. Time
of halves: twenty minutes. Referee:
iiargrovc Virginia Polytechnic Insti-
iute. Timckccper: Addison, William &.
Mary, and j. Wicker, Richmond Col
leee Scorer: Pollard. Richmond Col
legc
IOyOia Arnin Defeated.
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