Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1916-03-02
Basketball Trip.

The Shepherd College basketball team
returned home Sunday from their tour of
the western part of the State, and while
they won only one out of five games,
they established for themselves a name
for clean sport and gentlemanly conduct,
which cannot but reflect TO the honor and
advantage oil Shepherd College. The
first game was played Tuesday night
against the Thomas High School team,
and while our boys played a good game,
the floor was very greatly TO their dis
advantage, being only about fourteen ieet
wide with posts scattered over the floor,
and we LOST 81 10 H. Thomas is built on
the side OF a big hill and nearly all their
payementS are boardWalkS, and II you
step off one side of them you are liable
to drop ten or twenty feet to the street.
Alter the game our boys were given an
informal reception at the hotel by some
former Shepherd College students who
are teaching in Thomas, and il was most
enjoyable occasion.
Wednesday we went to Elkins and that
night played Davis & Elkins College.
We hardly hoped to keep them from rum
ming I'D a big score. but our boys put up
a game fight and when the smoke clear
ed away al the end of the game, we found
the score TO be IA to "a against US. We
didn't feel bad about 1t, for ID. & E. is the
iavorite for the State championship, and
then the thirty-four points we scored on
them were more than any other team had
made on them on their home floor this
season. Alter the game both teams were
invited 10 reception at the home OF Mrs.
Wade, who was formerly Miss Florence
Licklder, OF this place. There are quite
a number OF Shepherd College graduates
teaching in ElkinS aud we had delight
ful evening.
On Thursday we journeyed to Fairmont
TO play the Normal there. We lost again
50 10 g Our boys put up the best game
OF the trip on this floor, playing beautiful
ball. and had luck broken for us the score
would have been much closer. The ball
seemed possessed when our boys shot,
rolling around the basketand finally jump
ing out, and good many points were
lost in this manner.
The next stop was at Terra Alta where
we won from the High School 81 TO H..
Our boys outplayed the mountain boys at
all stages OF the game, and the result was
never in doubt from the start. In the
last minute of play Scanlon sprained his
ankle slightly and was forced TO retire
from the game, and was unable TO get in
the game Saturday night at Piedmont,
where we lost 40 10 81. The game in
Piedmont while pretty rough was fast and
clean and not until the last whistle blew
was it possible to tell who would win.
1t was close and exciting game from
start to finish.
lust a word about the treatment we re-
ceived while on the trip. 1t is usually
expected that you receive poor treatment
from referees when on hostile floor, but
not in a single instance was there any I'M
fair treatment in any one OF the five games
played. This is rather remarkable. for
there is usually little regard for a visiting
team. All OF the games were clean, and
in none OF them did our team make as
many fouls as The home team. which
shows the character Of basketball played
by the Shepherd College team.