The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-11-06

team had reason TO complain of crowded
conditions.
Nor has Spaulding produced in years a
more evenly balanced set OF ends thhn
Gordon aud Cruickshank. They are in
the fray TO the finish.
Prin. Fred Edwards, in attendance Mt
the Dartmouth Syracuse game IN Spring
field. missed the dismay attendant upon
seeing his team go down to defeat in
front of Spaulding.
II was to be noted that most OF Mont
pelier's tackle plays were instantly
smothered The answer is Mortimer anu
Watson.
Montpelier is well grounded in the open
game, but for some unknown reason 1t
! failed to get under way. Coach Brown
has not devised wholly successful de-
| Tense for this mode of advancing. New
ertheless. he had modelled a shifting at
tack of his own that does not depend on
aerial formations and il has worked eff
fectively all season.
Pike is sure little tackler and he
used his eyes on several occasions when
PLAYERS on both teams seemed to be peer
ing bindly of course, through their shoe
caps
Chandler is a rock of Gibraltar at cen
ter. Cole, at left guard, was laid out
once. but he is a game youngster anu
PLAYED like moose Barclay and Little
took care of the other guard position in
good style.
Whatever the outcome of the Nov. Is
Spauding St Adams game may be-and
Spauding has an even chance Of winning
it will be in the nature of an anti
climax. for the real climax was attained
the day before yesterday, when Spaud-
ing outclassed its old time rival.
Spauldings backs made some telling
stabs through the guards and sometimes
found no ample secondary defense to stop
them.
Both teams were handicapped by the
slippery condition of the field, but the
detection wrought more havoc with the
Montpelier backs. Time and time again
their plays were smeared before they
could get under way.
None of the officials who have acted in
any of the central Vermont prep. school
games this year have anything on Reid |
and Carswell Both are old Norwich men I
who know the game like a primer.
Coach Dole has a couple of handy play
ers in Mack and Smith.
Notwithstanding the fact that claims
and counter claims will be made, in all
the dopester who starts to
strike the averages with view to as
signing the state title has his work LAID
out for him. Spaulding and Montpelier
have both defeated st. Johnshury. Nont-
pelier has taken two falls out of st. Al
bans, once a strong contender, and has
defeated Burlington high, which is in no
wise a contender. The team Is yet to
meet Montpelier seminary. Montpelier
has failed to take the measure of Spauld-
ing, the first game having been score
less tie and the second decisive victory
for the Barre scLo)lboys. spaulding has
tied one and lost one to Montpelier sem
mary and another to St Albans, but has
won two games from st. Johnsbury,
which is counted out of the running. But
Spauding has been elevated to the rank
If the actual contenders by showing
.onclusiyely that ii has better drilled
md a better rounded eleven than Mont
oeler high, which until Saturday had
,een looked upon as probable contender.
t seems, therefore, that victory for ,
Montpelier seminary over Montpelier
Ugh would establish the seminary as an =,
Utmost sure champion, while a victory !
or the high school would leave the issue p, !,
till in doubt with Spaulding, St Adams :
md the two Montpelier teams each with :
leg on the title.