The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-21
Orange Defeated i'm Last
Minute of Play by
Single Point
WELLS FURNISHES
WINNING TALLY
Orange Gets Good Lead at Start, and
First Period Ends in Her Favor, IA
to II, but Locals Speed Up in Second
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In Franklin County league basket
ball game in Armory hall last night
Brattleboro high school defeated Orange
high school in an intensely interesting
contest by a score of % to 81.
Brattleboro had to fight for everything
they got and by supreme effort in the
last minute of play Gagged the ball for
the final and winning score.
Orange presented much heavier and
larger aggregation than B. H. S. could
show, but the locals, not to be denied
playing hard aggressive game, kept
them guessing and very much worried
especially in the second period, when by a
wonderful burst of speed, tied their larg
er opponents and copied the bacon.
Brattleboro got away to poor start
Austin, who usually is a dependable
shot, missed try after try, and not until
Orange had scored one from free try
and two from the floor did the locals
break into the scoring. Austin, emerg-
ing from his slump. pulled in two double
counters in succession, but again Orange
got under way and, playing pretty pass
ing game, which B. H. S. could not seem
to break into, rolled in four double coun-
tiers, putting the local team in a bad DO
sition and giving the spectators the i'm
preston that the final results were to
be somewhat one sided and unfavorable
to the local team.
After a short spell of no scoring bv
either team Wells for B. H. S. dropped
one into the cotton net. and Lynch
! pulled the same stunt soon after. putting
their team in a much better position.
These with three points from free trys
/ by Austin and two by Smith of Orange
brought the score up to ii in IL in favor
of Orange, when the sound of the whistle
tickled the ozone.
Coach Stolte must have given the bows
dose of pep or some of George Daley s
ice cream during intermission. for the
team certainly was running fast and
smooth to start the second period, PLAYING
Orange off their feet in the first five min
utes of play and keeping them on the
! Jump throughout the period. vet they
j kept just enough back for the last few
minutes to give the necessary punch to
win.
Gorborino played in hard luck while in
the game, receiving a rap on the nose in
the early part of the game and later
someone put him out for a few minutes
but he came back and played we'll into
the second period, when he retired in
favor OF Manning.
Wells was the original pep artist III
! the second half, being here, there and
everywhere, ringing up two rush order
for four points and putting his team in
| the lead. Austin thought the margin
ought to be larger so he dropped one in
| Then the wind shifted and the Orange
storm returned. Fuller and Higgins al.
Iternately got two doubles apiece. while
Smith scored one on foul, putting
ii. S. five points to the bad.
Capt. Austin then made change in
the lineup, which improved the team con
siderably. Higgins, a big fellow, was
outjumping Lynch at every turn, So
Austin went to center and Lynch to left
forward. This broke up Orange on the
toss-up. Austin rung up two points
and Timmins followed to offset, and then
came the fireworks. With the score 2;i
to 20 in favor of Orange, B. H. S. disre-
garded all speed regulations and traffic
cops. Wide open came the cutout and
with plenty of spark and gas the team
burst into the home stretch Austin
dropped in two pretty counters from the
| floor, making the count % to "a for
Orange. Smith then scored one from a
foul Lynch nicked the hoop for dou-
BILE and the count was tied at &c. Smith
again came to the front with one on a
foul and then B. H. S. pulled off pretty
piece of teamwork, Austin feeding the
ball to Wells, who came through with a
pretty basket and the game.
The last few minutes of play were the
kind that make one sit up and take
notice. While at times it seemed rough
it was because both teams were travel
ing at top speed with the same object
in view, to win, but B. H. s. beat Orange
to 1t, much to the~pleasure of the royal
rooters. who were out in full force and
made the hall ring with their cheers
In the preliminary the high schoo
freshmen and the seventh grade PLAYED
off their series which stood at three
wins apiece, and the freshmen proved {,
be the better team by one point, the fina
score being to 2 for the freshmen.
The summary of the big game:
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