The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-12-15
GODDARD BY
SINGLE POINT
Defeated Spaulding High
School, % to %, Last
Night
SHARP CONTEST
AT S, H. S. GYM
Marking Resumption OF
Athletic Relations After
Ten Years

Over an hour after the Spaulding-
Goddard basketball game ended last
night the Goddard school bell was still
on duty, sounding the rejoicing of the
seminary students-rejoicing over %
% victory over Spaulding high school
The victory by single point had mar
rowly missed being a defeat by the
same margin in the last few seconds OF
play, Tierney's long shot for the God
dard basket causing the ball to roll
around in the hoop and then out again.
But that's all in the game 1t was
Goddard victory and well-earned one.
a. victory that's credit to the school
and team, marking the resumption OF
athletic relations after ten years.
Goddard's team got the lead in scor.
ing from the very start and retained it
throughout the game. The high school
was playing a fast aggregation, heav.
Ter team and a we'd coached organlza-
ton, considering the early season. A
closer and more interesting game would
be impossible to play; it was thriller
from start to finish, and certainly WAS
no game for an apoplectic patient to
watch. There was earnestness in every
move, yet an ever present conscious
ness of clean sport. They were all out
to win. to win by basketball playing
and not by football tactics or foul
means.
On a personal foul by Foster Say
ton. August, left forward of the semi
nary FIVE, was given his first opportu-
nity to score which he did, and from.
then on displayed basketball of ster.
ling quality. He had handled basket :
ball in many game before, one would
Judge by his form and style. and was
fright at home" anywhere and every
where in the arena His floor work was
clever and paralleled in quality his ac'
turate shooting of fouls and baskets.
Taken as a whole, the seminary team
functioned good teamwork most effec
lively in the first period when the eff
forts of the high school players were
often futile in breaking up passing and
teamwork. McGraphan, the sem left
guard, worked effectively against young
Tierney, his opponent right forward,
preventing the lad from scoring during
the entire game and furnishing in the
meantime some nice foorwOrk.
Jarvis, the tall center, enabled the
seminary team to work the signals,
getting, in nearly every instance, the
jump over Slayton, and it was not I'M
Til the latter half that his directing
was interrupted with any noticeable eff
feet. Time and again the invaders
worked the ball from one end OF the
hall to the other, and il was under or
in the region of their opponents bas-
ket that play was on during most of
the initial period. That half ended
1919, Goddard having the large end of
the tally.
A fve-man defense worked well
against the seminary formation in
the last half, and with that in mind
the high school players re-entered the
gymnasium. Both defensive and often
sive playing was improved by the high
school quintet from that tirae until the
end of the game Teamwork had been
the aim of the high school five through
out, but now it was giving better re-
suits, and at times the narrow leads of
the seminary stood in jeopardy.
The hard working young left forward
of Spaulding, Douglas, was up against
a fast and heavier guard, who was
covering him and trying to prevent his
very good floor and team work. Stay
ton. the center, likewise played well
during most of the game, except for