The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-14
Spaulding High Won, 81 to
10, in Basketball on
Spaulding Court
VISITORS WERE KEPT
WE'LL COVERED
Lorraine Densmore Was a
Powerful Factor in the
Victory

The basketball team OF burlington
high that defeated Spaulding highs
quintet 3O-l0 in the first league game
of the season at Burlington, suffered
defeat from this same team in the
Spaulding gymnasium last evening
Spaulding winning 32-l9 over the light
but swift young Burlingtonlans. A
comparison of weight in the two teams
would have given Spaulding great
advantage if weight was an important
asset in basketball. These visitors
were light and quick, so made aggres-
sive and formidable opponents for the
home players.
Several minutes had elapsed from
the time of the whistle to the first bas-
ket shot, which was one-hand shot
from the side, manipulated by Lor-
raine Densmore. As the ball swished
through the netting the Spaulding sup
porters, as one, applauded the player
with long, shrill cheer. Perhaps it
was this that caused Denny" to play
the game so hard last evening. He
was everywhere at the right moment,
especially in the last period, and the
effort to score that first basket was
the beginning of unfaltering playing
during the entire game. He, together
with Brown, often broke into the pass
ing of the fve-man defensive game
with the result that the ball went back
to Spaulding territory many time.
That does not mean that the visitors
did not have opportunities to shoot.
They did considerable shooting but sell
dom to advantage, though they had
practiced in the gymnasium in the ait
ernoon. In almost every instance their
baskets scored were caromed after one
of the five players at the extreme end
of the hall had worked his way down
to the other end, but oftentimes he was
interrupted enough to lose the ball and
then see it go back and forth down the
court to Spaulding's zone once more.
Twenty minutes in this order held the
red and blue lads down to IA points,
while Burlingtons score totaled at
the end of the first period.
Spaulding players must have made
the most of the rest period by secret
discussions of the game, for when they
began the second half of the game it
was noticed that the players were in
positions of advantage on the floor. In
as many minutes as baskets scored
Densmore opened the second period by
scoring six successive baskets. That
really clinched the victory, making the
score 800 X. Isham, Burlington's
kingpin, was not dexterous enough to
elude Carpenter, so could find but three
baskets accredited to him at the con-
clusion of the game.
just few minutes before the game
was ended shout from the sidelnes
to the referee stopped the game for the
time being, the speaker, a Burlington
supporter, declaring that Densmore
should be put out of the game after
having made four personal fouls. Coach
William Stuart interrupted and pre-
vented Densmore's withdrawal by prov
ing that the speaker was mistaken be
cause Referee Joe Weafer had called
no personal fouls Dcnsmore had, how
ever, made four fouls up to this time,
but not personals.
This defeat put the Burlington team
on the same basis with Spauding, as
far as the league standing is concerned,
both having lost two games, one in
each case to Montpelier high, which
leads the league at the present time.
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