The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-10
Spaulding High School De-
feated Hardwick Acad-
envy, "A to 26
CLOSING ITS GAMES
IN LEAGUE SERIES
Local Team Showed a Good
Brand of Team
work

Spaulding high school wound up its
season in basketball last evening at the
Spaulding gymnasium by defeating Hard
wick academy in fast and well played
game by score of A to 20.
It was one of the most interesting
games to watch which has been played
by the local aggregation of basket tos-
sers this season. Not only was it fast,
but the game was clearly contested, with
both quintets exhibiting some very clev-
er team work.
During the last three minutes, Noonan
and Young were substituted in place OF
Morse and Capt. Densmore, as Spaulding
led with such wide margin that there
was no possible chance for the visitors
to overtake the local team Both the
men proved to be well coached in follow
ing their men and little scoring was ac-
eomplished on the part of Hardwick in
this part of the game
"Duffy" Lewis for the visitors was
easily star of the evening, and proved
to be wizard in following the ball he
is apparently one of the best shots who
have visited Barre this year. He is as
fast in following the ball as Clark OF
Montpelier high school, and is better on
long distance shots. Lewis and Thomp-
son are the strength of the llardwick
team and both men play well together,
as Thompson is a good floor worker and
Lewis is there when it comes to the
counters. The guards played good
game, as did the center, but Huntington
had trouble in outjumping Nichols, as
Nichols almost always placed the ball
where he wanted to.
For Spaulding there were no special
stars, as all the men played a steady
game, although Nichols had a banner
night in shooting baskets and wound up
his preparatory school basketball work
in grand style, caging the ball on nine
occasions, and he was a whirlwind on the
floor AT the forward positions, Geals
and Mann displayed the greatest team
work of the year, due no doubt to the
good work of Nichols in placing his ball
on the toss-up. Both DensmOre and
Morse showed consistent work
The game started with a foul made
good by Mann during the first two min
utes of play. Hardwick took the lead
soon after the toss-up by basket by
Thompson from difficult shot on the
side of the hall The visitors soon in
creased their lead when Lewis made one
good from the foul line. At this point |
Spaulding commenced their team work,
and foul line shot by Mann and bas- |
ket from the floor by Geals placed the |
Barre team in the lead by score of to
3. From then to the finish of the half |
Spaulding drew away from the visitors
until the scorer counted 10 to 10 in their |
favor. The second half started off with |
more pep than the first period, with the |
result that Spaulding Gagged four baskets
before Hardwick made count, Lewis
made foul good to start their scoring,
but they could do little with Spaulding,
rs Nichols had string of baskets mixed
with couple by Geals which put the
home five up to 80 with Hardwick trail
ng with IA points. After Spaulding had
scored about 40 points, Noonan and
Young replaced the guards and during
he last two minutes of play the teams
played about even, the score ending for
he half, % to IT, with total of "A to
IS. The score is as follows:
SpauldIng. Hardwlck.
Mann, II. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT re, Campbell
ieals, IF. ................... .lg, Lyons
Nichols, c. .............c, Huntington
)ensmore, Noonan, lg.........rf, Lewis
Morse, Young, rg. .........lf, Thompson
Spaulding "A, Hardwick 26
ioals from floor-Nichols 8, Geals 6,
1ewis 5, Huntington 3, Mann 8, Thomp-
nm Morse CamDhe1l FolIls-T evils g.,
, Mann 2. Referee-Kenefick. Timer
shepard. Time-20-minu halves.