Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-04-21
PRESS SLANTS ON
CONY-RUMFORD
GAME

Le"IStOA ouu-SOHS, iTOIl "H1Stle
to whistle. never left any doubt as to
which team could play the better
brand Of the indoor game. =
Rumford went into the game the ia
voritc of everybody whose home is
elsewhere than the Capital City. .
The minute a Rumford man got his
hands on the ball of the champs
vas there with the iron claw to see
that it got no farther-Cony forged
ahead on some pretty goals by Nc
Courtney and Hill: (the latter) was
shooting them in backward and for
ward, two-handed and with his feet.
$50 Too great credit for Cony's win
cannot be given to the backfield men
who did such fine work silencing the
Runford team. Cony brought
400 students on six special cars. They
also brought along the Augusta band.
Rumford also sent a large delegation
and there were fully a thousand peo-
pie in the hall when the men crawled
into the polo cage. Cony had enough
cheer leaders for a couple of Yale
Harvard games. and they all worked
overtime. After the first half they had
something to spur them on. while
Rumford supporters found little 10
encourage them. . 1t will be in
teresting to hear the Rumford alibis.
if any. The VICTOR: was so clean-cut
that none should be forthcoming.
Anyway. Cony won the title fairly as
it should he won. on the basketball
surface and not on paper.
Portland Press-ConE won on mer-
it. Sometimes they (Rumford,
were in their own way. but mostly ii
was the Cony backfold that stopped
them. Hill was the bright and
shining light in the Cony attack.
= 8 Rumford failed to produce a
star. 80 Cony played a better
grade of hall than a High school is
credited with knowing.
Portland Sunday Telegram-Cony
won from Rumford High by playing
backet ball. : " They presented
one of the best drilled and most
evenly balanced basket ball teams
that has been seen this season. Ev-
cry mar did his part, no player in
Clined themselves to individuality.
and they played a. d team. every
man getting into the game. Of
fensively as we'll as defensively they
~excelled and their guards gave the
individual heretofore stars Of Rum
ford all sorts of trouble. SO closely
did they watch Bovin and Galva-
risk. : 8 The shooting of francis
Hill and Captain McCourtney. the
Cony forwards. was spectacular.
McCourtney surrounded by two
Rumford backs threw the ball clean
through the netting and two other
shots were made one-handed while
in difficult positions. Hill also shot
with the same brilliancy, hardly
missing a shot. while his floor work
was excellent. The Cony guards
also played fine basket ball de-
fensively. and Soule, the Cony cen
ter. outworked his opponents. Roy
and GalvariSki, on h floor. Coach
Thompson has developed a fine bas-
ket ball team. The outfit was much
lighter than Rumford. the average
being II pounds difference between
h two quintets.
Cony played q fast. clever game.
outplaying the Itumford team from
the start to the finish. = Rum
ford "a stale while the Cony outfit
was at the peak of its condition.
Cony passed all around Rum
ford and shot with better aim
Cony had a we'll developed team with
d pair Of shooting stars for forwards.
= Buc it was more than indi-
vidual playing that won for Cony:
it was team play and goal getting
with a sweet passing game. >
Bovin and Galvariski could not
Withstand the strong ConN attack.